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Heading to the beach with a portable @plex server, router, and a WireGuard tunnel back home.
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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

....why, though?

I mean, technology is cool and I like a neat portable setup as much as the next person, but why take this to a beach? Can you not be away from social networks and your home LAN for even a few hours at a beach? :-(

[–] samdoran@hachyderm.io 12 points 1 year ago

@obinice Only for maybe one or two nights where we do a family movie night after very long days outdoors. It was just a fun thing to build for the fun of it.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Because he can I suppose.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why WG to the home if you have your Plex Server with you?

[–] samdoran@hachyderm.io 5 points 1 year ago

@kratoz29 That’s mainly so I can access the cameras back home to check on the house/animals. They are on a subnet with no outbound access.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it possible to condense it all down to one Pi unit?

[–] samdoran@hachyderm.io 1 points 1 year ago

@wesker In theory, yes. It was just easier to have separate devices.

[–] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m planing to get a pi in the future to build mount the Plex server and other stuff like vpn for home etc … can I get some guidance on what to look and what type of storage (physically small) to attach to it? Also it can be used as a seed box ? All together

[–] samdoran@hachyderm.io 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@nyakojiru The RK3588 and RK3566 are fantastic SOCs. At least 4GB RAM. An eMMC is much more reliable for the boot volume than a microSD card.

This won’t be able to do any live transcoding, so make sure your clients are configured for direct streaming.

You can get fairly large USB 3 flash drives and microSD cards for compact local storage. A NAS is better than local storage for a media server, though.

[–] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you , you re very kind for your explanation

[–] RichardBrockie@hachyderm.io 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@samdoran @plex @caseyliss why does the raspberry pi need a wifi antenna?

[–] jacobc436@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That looks like an OrangePi

[–] keyez@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Really wish I had something like this for my vacation right now, would be nice to be able to play some episodes from plex or watch a bit women's world cup games but this airbnb only has 1 appletv

[–] Crocrodile@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Do you use a sim card for the router? How much data do you have?