/int/ - International

lmao imagine paying to stream your own videos.

>>14958 I don't have to pay, because I only stream on my local network. Why are you so hateful?

Why not emby?

>>14960 I'm hateful because they charge for nonsense. Nothing against you, but against plex. I use Jellyfin and I simply don't care if it's local or not.

>>15177 Did Jellyfin get better recently? In my experience Plex is much more polished.

>>15178 It's good enough for me, but Plex is better polished, at least the clients. However, Plex isn't even an option for me.

>>15165 >emby sounds gay

>>15182 Last time I tried Jellyfin I couldn’t get the mobile apps to connect to my local server and that was that. With Plex it worked flawlessly.

Bernd wants to build his own home server. Main reason is to host music and movies. What device is the best for this? Raspberry pi seems to be overpriced atm.

>>15212 Consider electricity as well as the initial price. An old PC might be cheaper but draw 100W on idle.

>>15213 Maybe I could transform one of my older thinkpads into a home server. Shouldn't be difficult. Apparently they draw very little electricity on idle, less than 50W.

Plex is a privacy nightmare. I sure hope you have blocked all of it in your firewall.

>>15212 Raspis are overpriced shit for 99% of the stuff they are used for (basically everything that doesn't make use of their pins). >>15214 >50 watt idle I sure hope energy in Croatia is cheap. My beelink draws about 8 watt without drives

>>15401 Don't really care, Plex users are 99% pirates, so they can't rat their users out without going bankrupt.

>>15409 https://birchtree.me/blog/plex-started-emailing-your-friends-and-family-what-youve-been-watching-people-didnt-like-that/ I don't want a company knowing what porn and stuff I watch on my pc

>>15402 >I sure hope energy in Croatia is cheap. It is not. I'm going to try and find a better solution. According to search results, a t440p shouldn't draw more than 20W. So I'll test that one. A t440p is also the most moddable thinkpad so there's plenty of space for drives.

>>15417 I'm using a cheap VPS and a Hetzner storage box. Something like 8€ per month for 1 TB and 24/7 availability. Only, it can't do live transcoding. It's not the most ideal with respect to performance, but it's the cheapest way I found. It corresponds to an average power consumption of ~35W, assuming hardware is free.

>>15419 Thanks! That seems like a good solution. Doesn't hurt to try in any case.

>>15421 As this thread is still about Plex, just a heads up that Plex blocks Hetzner servers.

>>15426 Noted, thanks. I'll experiment and see what works best. Plex, Jellyfin or maybe something else.

>>15426 Well, I only use hetzner for storage. But also >letting the software developer decide on what server you run their software

>>15431 #justplexthings

>>15214 I have an old x240 lying around, but it only has 240gb storage and I don't know if it's worth the hassle to upgrade

>>15214 >less than 50W You don't know much about laptops and energy, it seems. A laptop that used 50 W in idle would empty its battery *in idle* in about an hour. Typical idle power is 3-5 W or so, a watt or two less with screen off.

>>15428 https://www.amazon.com/Server-Pocket-i226-V-2-5GbE-Support/dp/B0DTF5Q4BV I use such, its way overkill though but i run many things on it. X86 is definitely noicer though. ARM gave me nothing but issues.

>>15656 Which OS do you run?

>>15656 Even seems to be able to do hardware transcoding with some effort.

>>15658 proxmox? :DDDD i have proxmox as casaOS which is effectively just a docker wrapper in which I run most stuff. Then I have another lxc running with turnkey webserver and some other stuff.

>>15660 I have do hardware transcoding ye. You do need custom image, although I think the emby guy released some official image last week for the N150 / N355. It works really well. Basically got my home server / NAS all in one, with plenty of power.

>>15663 But aren’t SSDs far too expensive to actually store lots of stuff on such a small server?

>>15664 For big media yes, but I often delete series and movies are watching them. If I want to keep them I have an attached 8TB HDD on USB. I dont need raid shit for movies and series that I can just redownload tbh. I have gbit internet.

>>15602 >Typical idle power is 3-5 W That was my initial assumption but some search results of people using similar thinkpad models as home servers reported anywhere between 20-50W consumption. >>15656 Noice!

>>15665 I see, how much power does it consume?

>>15656 How does that compare to a Mac mini? I recently bought one with an M4 for administration shit, mainly because my tax software doesn't run well on Linux. It feels like the fastest PC I have ever owned, but I don't know if it's just clever prioritising of user input to improve responsiveness, or if it's really fast. Never did any benchmarks though.

>>15705 Apple arm cpu's are very fast they make great computers now

The electricity measuring device arrived, I want to see how much power my desktop PC which I currently use to seed and host Plex draws, maybe between 25-50W and even if I have it on 24/7 it might only be like 11€ a month,

>>15803 Which one did you get? I want to measure the idle power draw of my old NAS because i fear i will NOT be pleasantly surprised.

>>15840 I have this one since it works well under 10W. Probably exists in bulky and overengineered Schuko as well.

>>15840 REV Stromzähler https://amzn.eu/d/dJGYSvr