Streamline your home media experience
The last HTPC Guides giveaway was a Banana Pi from Lemaker which Lorenzo won. This time around the Media Server Giveaway is a Raspberry Pi 2 for the lucky winner.
The winner will receive the Raspberry Pi 2, a case, SD card with Minibian Jessie and the HTPC Guides Media … I'm curious
Varnish Cache is the best speed improvement for your WordPress site. It acts as a reverse proxy and will cache all of your pages as HTML and serve them up quickly, bypassing the slow PHP backend (Apache or nginx). With the WordPress Varnish cache method outlined here, you will always … I'm curious
Kodi has so many plugins available. You may have some favorite plugins you use very often. It can be annoying to have to scroll to Videos, go to Add ons and then find the plugin you want to launch. You can make things much easier on yourself by adding shortcuts … I'm curious
Do you want a minimal Ubuntu distro for your Orange Pi Plus home media server? This post contains the image but a walkthrough for building your own Orange Pi Plus minimal Debian or Ubuntu server image will be posted once the project is on github. It was made possible by … I'm curious
DLNA servers allow you to stream your media library on your HTPC server to any DLNA enabled client. DLNA enabled clients include Bluray players, XBOX 360, XBOX One, PS3, PS4 and some Smart TVs. ReadyMedia miniDLNA has the lowest memory footprint of the DLNA servers I have tested. I am … I'm curious
Varnish a reverse proxy which seriously speeds up your WordPress site. If I didn't use Varnish on HTPC Guides the page load time would be 3+ seconds due to the slowness of PHP and all the WordPress plugins I use. Thankfully, I host on a Digital Ocean VPS where you … I'm curious
Is your favorite torrent provider missing from Sonarr? Jackett lets you use many torrent providers with Sonarr which it does not natively support. Jackett turns your home media server into a Torznab API server so it directly communicates with the torrent providers and translates search results into a format … I'm curious