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The awesome Plex Media Server can now finally be installed on the Raspberry Pi 2 without a chroot. The chroot method broke when using upstart scripts and had metadata issues, those are no longer a problem! Using a Synology package compiled for an ARMv7 processor we can use it on … I'm curious
Many users transfer media around their home using SAMBA shares or FTP. Data can be transferred from USB or SATA hard drives with file systems ext4, NTFS and exFAT. ext4 is a native Linux file system, whereas NTFS and exFAT are Microsoft file systems. Since NTFS and exFAT are foreign … I'm curious
Downloading from usenet almost always require some post-processing. Repairing missing articles using PAR2 files requires a lot of CPU power while unpacking files requires a fast I/O system – think SATA being faster than USB in terms of input and output. I discussed this at great length with NZBGet's developer … I'm curious
I have been curious about how well the Raspberry Pi, Pi 2 and Banana Pi perform at usenet downloading. I test 2 different usenet downloaders: NZBGet written in C++ and Sabnzbd written in python to see which performs better. This builds on my previous benchmark post Raspberry Pi 2 vs … I'm curious
Mumble is a nice open source VoIP system popular with gamers. You can create your own private Mumble server that runs on the Raspberry Pi to use with your friends or gaming crew. One of the common problems with setting up a Mumble server is that sometimes your IP address … I'm curious
I finally got time to benchmark the Raspberry Pi, Pi 2 and Banana Pi Pro for media server tasks. It is similar to my last comprehensive benchmarks comparing the Raspberry Pi and Banana Pi. Despite not much changing besides the CPU and RAM in the Pi 2, many people insisted … I'm curious
Sabnzbd is a usenet downloader written in Python. It integrates with Sonarr, CouchPotato, SickRage, Mylar and Headphones for automating your media downloads. With the release of the Raspberry Pi 2 Sabnzbd is much easier to run now because of the additional CPU cores and RAM. This guide will walk you … I'm curious