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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
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
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
The MeegoPad T01 was silently released in 2014 running full 64-bit Windows. It is a full HTPC TV stick that competes with the Amazon Fire TV and other Android HTPCs. It is the same as the Intel Compute stick which Intel announced would be released in 2015. I got one … I'm curious
FTP is a simple way to transfer files from your Raspberry Pi to other devices. It is also the fastest method for transferring data between devices – at least faster than SAMBA (see Raspberry vs Banana Pi Benchmarks: Do SATA and Gigabit Matter?). If you are using your Raspberry … I'm curious
Sonarr is a badass TV Show PVR that works with usenet and torrents. Create a list of shows and Sonarr will find the relevant .torrent and/or nzb files for you. For torrents it will work with uTorrent, Transmission, Deluge and a watch directory ‘blackhole' for other torrent clients. With usenet … I'm curious