Heading to the beach with a portable @plex server, router, and a WireGuard tunnel back home.
cc @caseyliss

  • ObiniceEnglish
    24•11 months ago

    …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? :-(

    • Sam DoranOP
      12•11 months 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.

  • kratoz29English
    9•11 months ago

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

    • Sam DoranOP
      5•11 months 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.

    • Sam DoranOP
      1•11 months ago

      @1bluepixel There’s no telling what the internet situation is like at the vacation home. We’ve been stranded before with no internet where it rained all week.

  • Dr. WeskerEnglish
    2•11 months ago

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

  • AlligatoradeEnglish
    1•11 months ago

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

  • @keyez@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1•11 months 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

  • @willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
    1•11 months ago

    The best thing about Plex is being able to play it on anything. HDMI out of your phone/laptop makes more sense.

    • Sam DoranOP
      2•11 months ago

      @willya I’ve done that in the past. It works ok. I bring an Apple TV to use as the client. I like the tvOS Plex app quite a bit and I don’t have to use VNC or get up to control it.

  • @nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1•11 months ago

    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

    • Sam DoranOP
      0•11 months ago

      @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.