Streamline your home media experience
OpenMediaVault is an excellent NAS software solution. It boasts an easy-to-use web interface for simple management of users, settings, network shares like samba and has easy plugins for content automation. This guide assumes you have already installed OpenMediaVault using Minibian or Raspbian as a base. It is recommended to install … I'm curious
The last HTPC Guides giveaway was a Banana Pi from Lemaker which Hennie won and an mk808b Plus which Sergej 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 … I'm curious
NTFS-3G allows you to read NTFS formatted hard drives on Linux systems. This is a huge convenience for users who wish to use their hard drives on both Windows and Linux systems. There are ext4 wrappers for Windows that allow you to read hard drives formatted with ext4. There is … I'm curious
Linux systems make excellent media servers. Since Plex Media Server has been unofficially available on the Raspberry Pi 2, Banana Pi and other ARMv7 devices, some users have wanted to monitor the service and restart it automatically.
Monit is the perfect service for that as it has advanced probing for … I'm curious
Redis-server is a caching system that speeds up WordPress using object cache. Benchmarks show ridiculous speed increases with the PECL Redis extension for PHP. I use Redis caching and Varnish caching for this site and have found it to be the best combination on my 512 MB Digital Ocean droplet … I'm curious
par2tbb is a project which enables multicore par2 processing for par2 files. Par2 files are used to repair incomplete rar files typically found on usenet. Being able to repair rar files using multiple threads using all of your CPU cores can signficantly increase the time taken to repair your releases … I'm curious
It is time for the HTPC Guides Christmas giveaway, sponsored by LeMaker who have kindly donated a Banana Pi Pro to a lucky user. I've also purchased some MK808b Plus devices as second prizes. The winner will receive the LeMaker Banana Pi Pro unit, a case with space for a … I'm curious