Streamline your home media experience
This guide will show you how to send a pushbullet notification when rtorrent completes a download on Debian Wheezy. With the power of curl and simple bash scripts it is remarkably easy to make pushbullet do its thing and make you feel like a digital badass.
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Mounting storage drives on Debian can mean several things. Sometimes you have a NAS system like a Synology or QNAP that has samba shares that you wish to access on Debian. You can do that by mounting the samba share in a folder on Debian. Alternatively you can mount hard … I'm curious
Music Player Daemon is an extremely lightweight application originally written for Linux. You can remote control the music server using an Android device, iPod, Windows and OSX boxes. I had an old android device laying around and wanted to turn it into a wireless music player for my bedroom and … I'm curious
Nzbdrone is a PVR that downloads periodic media files automatically from usenet. It is a strong competitor to SickBeard. Nzbdrone has a modern UI and an active developer who is currently adding torrent support and recently added anime indexing. In the future it will include movie support so I have … I'm curious
Plex is an awesome media server software that is ‘family-proof’, even my technically challenged stepmom can use plex which makes it perfect if you are trying to create an htpc home media server solution for friends or family. Plex will stream to practically any device in your house: iPad, iPhone, … I'm curious
Sabnzbdplus is a classic newsgrabber written in python. It works very well with CouchPotato, SickBeard and Nzbdrone for building your automated PVR system. This guide is for Debian Wheezy and Jessie for installing Sabnzbd as a regular user to avoid permission issues with saving to your hard drive's download folder. … I'm curious