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Two instances raspberry
You need at least two pis. Each only has one HDMI port and can only run one os/display at a time.
You effectively have three entities, the media server and two displays/thin clients. Raspberry pis ...
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Raspberry Pi case ventilation necessary?
Ventilation is a good idea if you notice the core temperature getting much above 60-65 °C.
vcgencmd measure_temp
...Will tell you this. Note that throttling will kick in if you get close to the ...
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Raspberry Pi case ventilation necessary?
I would lean toward providing some ventilation in a case for the RPi 3B+, especially if it will be used as a media server. Heat will not only reduce the life of electronic components such as your CPU/...
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Will this setup be sufficient for a HTPC
It appears that the data links are just going through one of the pi's existing USB ports via an adapter. The GPIOs passed through are presumably not used for anything (trying to use them to ...
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Raspberry Pi + router + USB port sharing for file transfer in network?
Yes this is possible as the USB port on your Pi is able to handle more than a single device if you use a hub. This is demonstrated on the Pi b which utilizes the same processor but also includes a USB ...
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Is this good for a Chinese-language media center?
Yes, the RaspberryPi is your thing (I'd say) and the primary software tool you're looking for is kodi formerly known as xbmc. So you should look into openelec and alternatively into any of the basic ...
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Plex server Pi Freezes frequently
Check/replace your power supply. I'm not sure if either of your 2 HDD are USB-powered, but that certainly would increase power draw from the Pi and cause freezes if your power supply was not fully up ...
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Use Pi as DLNA server and serve media from NAS
Have a look at minidlna in the Raspbian repository. In it's /etc/minidlna.conf you can specify the directories:
# Path to the directory you want scanned for media files.
#
# This option can be ...
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Media server with a 3.5 inch hard drive
If your interested in speed, look into a single-board computer with better data speed. The Pi 3B+ puts 100% of it's USB+Ethernet bandwidth through a single USB2.0 hub. This is why it's "gigabit" ...
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Can you make a high-power NAS from a Raspberry Pi?
Late to the party but the below link is to a performance test of the Raspberry Pi as well as the Banana Pi. It confirms some of the comments already made here, but also points to an alternative ...
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How to turn Pi into media centre
Quoting from the Kodi documentation you referenced as 'read':
Select LibreELEC or OSMC and press the Install button.
You'll be prompted to confirm. This will delete any data on the SD card, so if you ...
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Sharing network drive with raspberry pi
Raspberry Pi's don't have USB 3.0 so it's going to default to USB 2.0 which is slower, but if you're sharing it over a wireless that's slow anyway, so yes it should work fine. You'll just have USB ...
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DLNA server, ad-hoc wi-fi, and connection with an Android DAC player
Your project is to broad to have a detailed answer. But here are some general ideas to point you in the right direction.
You should start with an access point, not using an Ad-Hoc network. It is ...
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DLNA server, ad-hoc wi-fi, and connection with an Android DAC player
So...
Thank you to everyone who helped me by guiding me on different possible step and process!
I succeed to do it and this is how I did it, working on Raspbian with desktop UI and external NTFS HDD :
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Howto install UPnP/DLNA media server
You can use minidlna, a lightweight UPnP/DLNA server that fits very well into an environment for multiroom media, made with Raspberry Pis. It is available from the default Raspberry Pi OS repository. ...
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Howto install UPnP/DLNA multiroom media environment
Of course you must have a local network to which all RasPis are connected. WLAN is OK for showing pictures and stream audio files, but for video streaming it is limited, so you may consider to use ...
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Not able to start the Plex Media Server on my Raspberry 3 anymore
Execution of Plex Mediaserver terminates with exit code 255 that means the real exit code is greater than 255 and unknown. That does not help much and is not a good reputation for Plex Mediaserver. ...
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Media server with a 3.5 inch hard drive
The adapter should work, but you won't benefit from the USB 3.0 speed. You may also want a case for your drive.
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Slim distro for media server with least battery consumption
I suspect that a "better, slimmer OS" will offer only small reductions in power consumption. You may wish to look into some hardware configuration methods to reduce power consumption. Another link on ...
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Trying to run plex media server on Raspberry Pi
I had the same problem. The error indicates that the main process (not the ExecPre) has failed. In my case, running the command directly:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver /usr/lib/...
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Webmin: Possible Disconnect due to Perl
Perl is a programming language and associated interpreter. Webmin happens to be written in perl. The authentication error probably has to do with your file permissions when you setup webmin
It's ...
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Curl Error when installing Plex Media Server on RPI 3
For those who encountered this, just re-run it until its successful, seem to be from what i experienced, its something about the peer being refused or something. Just look up errno 104 on google. Yes, ...
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Error installing dependencies of openmediavault
I find a answer from here.
I made armhf transmission packages on the RPi and they are in the testing repo. Enable the testing repo on the Primary tab of omv-extras and it should find the packages.
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Will a Raspberry Pi 3 work with a 5tb Fat32 Hdd
i have personally successfully used multiple 4tb hard drives with my raspberry pi and see no reason why your 5tb and 3th drives would not be compatible with the pi simultaneously. The only potential ...
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Pi as a Storage Server
I think ownCloud might be what you are after. Before following the steps below make sure your Pi has a fixed IP address.
Assuming you are running Raspbian open a Terminal window and run:
wget http://...
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How to set up audio multicast on Raspberry Pi
If you want to multicast audio streams to or from the Pi, or indeed handle multiple network audio streams generally in Linux, I suggest you have a look at PulseAudio, which supports receiving and ...
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How to setup a Raspberry Pi to make media files of hard drive available everywhere?
There is NextCloud (https://nextcloud.com ), a fork of OwnCloud which you can install on your pi, or just flash a prepared disk image for the pi:
https://ownyourbits.com/2017/02/13/nextcloud-ready-...
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How do I get Pi3 + Plex Media server to recognize my attached USB storage device?
There is a plugin which is available in max2play for raspberry pi, by using this plugin you can have filesystem configuration:
https://www.max2play.com/en/portfolio/plugin-filesystem-mount/
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Raspberry pi does not show up in bubbleupnp
I had the same problem here with my orangepi boad.
It was fixed by installing manually all the gstreamer1.0-* binary dependencies suggested in the blog post you linked.
I also had to change some ...
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Is there any way to stream music from an RPi2 to an iPhone/iPod/iPad/Other Device from off the network? Like a Plex server, but just for music
Look into DLNA based apps. There are DLNA clients and servers available for linux and iOS.
Random page from searching "iOS DLNA" online: http://appadvice.com/appguides/show/dlna-streaming
Based on a ...
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