Hah if you’ve been on Reddit and seen some of the posts about LMS and Home Assistant you’ve probably seen a bunch of my posts about it.

When I installed PCP on the Pi Zero W it was hooked up to a Bluetooth soundbar. There was no need for soldering a PCB in there. The pi3b I have upstairs was running though and old pair of PC speakers I found in a drawer, and the one in my kitchen was run though and old Bose surround sound system, via an electric drum kit I got my kid for his birthday. Meant we could put songs on Spotify through it and play along on the drums

I can’t answer your original question but I have had a lot of success using Logitech Media Server (LMS) or PiCorePlayer (same thing but all in one, server and end player). They are also known as Squeezebox.

I ran a server on a pi, then ran the player part on more Pis including a pi zero w which had PCP installed (but I just used the player part of it).

Squeezebox used to be a Logitech brand, you can still find them on eBay. They closed it down, but open sourced it and it was taken over by the OS community.

It looks shit. But there is a Material theme you can add that makes it look far nicer. It will run your own media from the server, but also other services like TuneIn Radio, Spotify, YouTube, BBC radio…

I ended up with it because there is a plugin that allows Google Home Minis to be used as end devices and I have 3 of them. So I had 6 end devices (3 Google, 3 Pis) and I could run them all together playing the same music throughout the house.

It’s a bit buggy sometimes, and it requires a fair bit of fiddling. I found that the Google devices would always be out of sync by a half second or so. But on the whole I loved it, and when my Dell Optiplex comes I intend to revive it on that.

Yup I had a quick look after posting that reply and there is one for my Roku which is the main device I use for media. The kids watch on the PlayStation 4 though and it seems Sony are not great with OS software unfortunately.

That said I’ll still probably spin up a container and have a play if my new server ever arrives

Thanks, I may very well do that. I just don’t understand how to get the Jellyfin onto my telly, but don’t worry I’m not asking for help with that, I like a bit of research.

I’m not quite a noob. I run an Arr stack on my PC and I’m going to be transferring it to a dedicated server along with Home Assistant and whatnot next week.

My question is, what’s so good about Jellyfin? Why does it always get recommended over Plex? Plex seems to be working just fine so I just don’t get why Jellyfin may be better.

Is it just that it’s free and open source? Coz while I’m totally down with that, I don’t pay for Plex and it seems to be working just fine.

Currently I have a pi4b running Home Assistant, Adguard, influx db, Maria db, Grafana, node red…

I have a pi3b running my main Adguard and Raspotify.

My main Pi can’t handle Adguard and HA together, keeps crashing. So I just bought a Dell Optiplex 7050 mini to be an actual home server instead of having everything running as Home Assistant add-ons.

Planning on using it for Arr, Plex, HA, anything else I can think of, with my Pis being my Adguard and Raspotify instances and maybe get some Bluetooth tracking going in the house while I’m at it.

Might run a little Minecraft server for the kids too

Thanks for the correction. I’ve lurked in here and the Reddit one back before the time we don’t talk about, but I have no clue when it comes to hardware. I got given a PC to game on and was talking to my mate about buying server bits, and mentioned getting i7 processors. He told me it would be more powerful than my gaming rig because that’s only i5s.

This makes more sense. So I can get an i3-7xxx quad core mini PC and try upgrade the RAM and storage.

I have a bunch of ram sticks in a bottom drawer and some HDDs I’ve never managed to boot yet, so I have things to play with… I just don’t know what they are or if they work.

I love to tinker though. This all sounds like lots of fun

Hey no you answered a bunch of questions I had there. So I’m looking for an i7 with lots of RAM. Thanks that’s excellent

I’m in the market for a nas or thinclient for these kinds of things, an upgrade for my RPi Home Assistant.

I’m stuck at hardware at the moment and think a cheap 2bay NAS is probably the way to go. My concern is that I won’t be able to run all the things on a NAS mainly because I’m clueless. This community talks in maths (as Radiohead say) so half the time I’m trying to decipher all the LXCs and other acronyms.

Anyway, I think I need to learn PROXMOX or Unraid so your comment has me interested.

My question to you is this: since your server is plugged in via ethernet, can you access the Windows VM via web interface? Or does it require a screen, keyboard, mouse, etc?

I think I’m gonna be running HA in a VM, along with Adguard and maybe LMS in docker containers, then probably a Windows VM for Arr and Plex. I assume all these things will have their own port but I’m just not 100% about the actual Windows VM

I’ve just bought a 7800 because it can replace my Sky Router apparently with a little tinkering. I have an Openwrt router running as an AP in my loft but was gonna leave this on stock firmware just because I tried to use the Openwrt as DHCP and it didn’t seem to want to work, maybe I just don’t understand it well enough.

All I really want to do is point at my Adaway servers, so I’ll be able to do that with the stock firmware.

Anything is better than what Sky have me locked down to.

Install Plex on your media server. Install Plex on your Phone.

Point Plex at your media on your server.

See if it works on your phone.

If it does, install Plex on your Xbox.

Just remember Europeans that “Brexit means Brexit”

But what was Brexit when we voted on Brexit? What did it mean? It meant Brexit!

Instead of connecting it to WiFi, have a look into power line adapters. They route your internet through the copper wiring in your house.

I have a router in my subterranean ground floor linked to a power line adapter, a wired router in my front room a floor up so my PC, TV, Playstation, etc are connected via LAN, and another power line 2 floors above that plugged into another WiFi router running in bridge mode, which supplies WiFi to the top two floors, and another playstation wired in to that router

Basically it means that my ground floor router is hooked to the internet and everything else in the house that needs wiring in is wired in because of the power line, and the WiFi is coming from 2 routers, one on the top floor and one on the ground.

My ISP thought a WiFi router on the ground floor of a 4 storey house was a great idea, but they’re stupid. WiFi should be in the highest point of your house.

With a few Power line adapters you can sort your internet out for £25

The general population is very much influenced by the Home Assistant community since the Home Assistant Community is made up of people who are heavily into technology. My parents will run purchases in the tech world past me, as will many of my work colleagues and friends.

The general population are very interested in what we do, even if they do not do it themselves. I mentioned to a tech-phobic friend that I have sensors in my bath that notify me when my bath is run and he takes the piss out of me to my face then talks about how amazing such a thing is behind my back, I know because it happened yesterday. Who do you think he’s gonna talk to when he buys his next expensive appliance?

Don’t talk our influence down, we have an influence even if you can’t see it.

I had 5 minutes so I’ve just sent em a snotty email. I don’t have an air conditioner and won’t buy one anytime soon, but shit like this gets my goat.

I liked the idea that this was King Sausage Fingers’ way of saying the headline “Fuck you, Bastard!” to Midget Jug-ears.

It’s much easier being a Poor, you just say “Fuck off ya cunt” and get another minimum wage job next week. Cheaper too, you don’t have to buy a new insulting tie for every work meeting.

But then, when you get all the assets of anyone who dies in Manchester who doesn’t have a Will, money starts to lose all meaning and you just buy ties for the fuck of it.