Heading to the beach with a portable @plex server, router, and a WireGuard tunnel back home.
cc @caseyliss
…why, though?
I mean, technology is cool and I like a neat portable setup as much as the next person, but why take this to a beach? Can you not be away from social networks and your home LAN for even a few hours at a beach? :-(
@obinice Only for maybe one or two nights where we do a family movie night after very long days outdoors. It was just a fun thing to build for the fun of it.
Because he can I suppose.
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@blewit For sure! This is only for family movie night after long days on the beach.
Why WG to the home if you have your Plex Server with you?
@kratoz29 That’s mainly so I can access the cameras back home to check on the house/animals. They are on a subnet with no outbound access.
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@1bluepixel There’s no telling what the internet situation is like at the vacation home. We’ve been stranded before with no internet where it rained all week.
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Is it possible to condense it all down to one Pi unit?
@wesker In theory, yes. It was just easier to have separate devices.
The best thing about Plex is being able to play it on anything. HDMI out of your phone/laptop makes more sense.
@willya I’ve done that in the past. It works ok. I bring an Apple TV to use as the client. I like the tvOS Plex app quite a bit and I don’t have to use VNC or get up to control it.
@samdoran @plex @caseyliss why does the raspberry pi need a wifi antenna?
That looks like an OrangePi
I’m planing to get a pi in the future to build mount the Plex server and other stuff like vpn for home etc … can I get some guidance on what to look and what type of storage (physically small) to attach to it? Also it can be used as a seed box ? All together
@nyakojiru The RK3588 and RK3566 are fantastic SOCs. At least 4GB RAM. An eMMC is much more reliable for the boot volume than a microSD card.
This won’t be able to do any live transcoding, so make sure your clients are configured for direct streaming.
You can get fairly large USB 3 flash drives and microSD cards for compact local storage. A NAS is better than local storage for a media server, though.
Thank you , you re very kind for your explanation
Really wish I had something like this for my vacation right now, would be nice to be able to play some episodes from plex or watch a bit women’s world cup games but this airbnb only has 1 appletv
Do you use a sim card for the router? How much data do you have?
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