Streamline your home media experience
A Reverse proxy is a convenient method to remotely access your media server’s web interfaces. When you are done with this guide you will be able to use your free dynamic DNS address (Mac OSX Afraid DNS Guide) like htpcguides.crabdance.com/htpc instead of htpcguides.crabdance.com:8085. This means fewer open ports … I'm curious
VMPlayer test environments are incredibly useful for anyone who wants to tinker with new software. It lets you have a playground environment where you can play, break and mess around as much as you like on an operating system with no consequences to your real home media server operations. In … I'm curious
Varnish speeds up your WordPress site significantly. 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). Traditionally plugins like W3 Total Cache and Varnish HTTP Purge empty single pages or the … I'm curious
LazyLibrarian is your paperless media manager for your home media server. It will manage your entire book collection and create a wishlist of items. LazyLibrarian helps you search for missing items from usenet (NZBGet and Sabnzbd – only Sabnzbd may be working currently) or Torrents (Transmission and uTorrent) and nicely … I'm curious
It is time for your next HTPC Guides giveaway, this time in partnership with LeMaker who have kindly donated a Banana Pi Pro to a lucky user. The winner will receive the LeMaker Banana Pi Pro unit, a case with space for a 2.5″ hard drive, SATA cable, SD card … I'm curious
If you are having trouble with SickRage finding your shows, here is a potential fix. SickRage tries its best to find your content but if the torrent has a funny naming pattern that SickRage doesn't recognize, it will not find it. Luckily SickRage is so robust that you can customize … I'm curious
Jackett lets you use many torrent providers with Sonarr. It turns your home media server into a Torznab API server. Jackett enables popular torrent providers to be searched using Sonarr, the list of compatible providers can be found here. This guide will walk you through installing and autostarting Jackett. … I'm curious