Yeah, in only talking about the big ones, 3-4tb.
Yeah got ya
I already gave up on plex… First of all you have to pay a subscription to use devices. Then once I did that, it basically just played like crap. Oh well, 5 bucks and a few hours down the drain.
I did go through and fix all of my file names so that Kodi (xbmc) would properly scrape my NAS files. Definitely liking having the metadata and proper library as opposed to just a list of files.
I’ll probably just stick with individual Kodi installs pointing to the NAS as opposed to doing anything fancy with the server software with Kodi.
Why did it play like crap? Did it buffer or was it bad quality? I knew you had to pay $5 per Apple or Android license, but that’s not a big deal to me. Could you open a port on your router and access it through Plex that way?
I run plex at home. it runs flawless on my iPhone remotely when not at home, and it runs great on the chromecast. I just traveled for work for a few days and took the chrome cast with me and it worked great in the hotel. my only argument is… it’s slow. its not one of those things you can open a movie quick and watch it, there is lots of buffering. and the host machine needs to be a power house. and yes you can open a port on your router and bypass spending 5 dollars, but I think you give up the buffering options and a few other things the client does.
I am re-dedicating an old workstation for my new plex server. six core amd cpu, 12gb ram, just bought four 4tb drives for raid 10.
back when it was just divx/xvid my dlink dsm510 and tversity were rock solid and hella fast.
I’ve been contemplating an HDHomeRun with a Fios Cable Card run into my server so that I can access my recorded shows on the go. From what I have heard though is that WMC is the only system that can play the shows once they are downloaded, due to the copyright on certain channels. Plex won’t play them as is right now. I have the 1TB DVR through Verizon, but I hope to be able to ditch the rental box fees down the road and setup my own that can be accessed by my HTPC’s.
My thought was being able to get the Red Zone channel on the go when I want to watch it, but it might take some work to accomplish that.
Also, if you were to open the port on your router, couldn’t you just bypass Plex altogether and just draw right from the server itself?
I really don’t know why it was so slow, but I really just didn’t care to figure it out. Machine does have an older Core2Duo processor. Could also be the fact that I am mounting a NAS to the Plex Media Server.
Either way, don’t really care to figure it out. I’m not interested in opening the firewall to view from external network.
I’m thinking I will probably keep the “Server” attached the NAS and use it for SabNZB to start automating my downloads to the NAS.
I know I had port forwarding set for one of mine so that I could access my security camera’s on the go. Once I get this server set, I will probably throw a program in there to store video footage and I’ll cap it once I see how much space it takes vs. how many days worth of footage I get. They aren’t super high quality ip cams, so they shouldn’t use too much. My fear is that once I start all of this and have it actively running ,how is the Fios router going to hold up. I may have to upgrade to their new router that offers higher speeds.
What router do you have now? Does it have gig ports? If yes than no need to upgrade really.
I believe so.
It looks like this: 
Based on this link, it states that it has Gigabit ethernet: http://www.actiontec.com/214.html
Even if it was 100mb ports, that’s still more bandwidth than your plan allows for.
Yep, that is the one I have and has gig ports. The new one just boosts wireless speed from what I can tell, to 800Mb/s. Not really worth it IMO.
Now, I do have my IP cameras mounted outside my house, running wireless. When I have software running on the backend right now to monitor/record (Office computer), I do notice that my network is slowed significantly. If I wire these, will it help to keep speeds up or does it not matter?
Always wire if reasonable. Your cameras have only half the bandwidth, that your computer does. The Cameras are probably bandwidth hogs since they are transmitting video. I’m not sure if there is a setting to lower the amount of bandwidth or maybe limit the device speed to like 100Mb Full. Keep in mind all that traffic is internal, it’s not coming from outside your network.
I don’t have too much experience with Security cameras, but at work we put them on a separate network and equipment. Partially for this reason.
Gotcha. I do have another spare wireless router that I was going to connect and run them through that. I’m not exactly sure how to get the routers to run in sync, but not interfere with each other. Once I get the server setup, I’ll revisit that.
Turn off DHCP on the second router. That’s the main thing. Otherwise both routers are issuing out IP addresses.
Plex works well. Yes you can open a port and use remote clients to view your content. Because it transcodes on the server don’t run it on a POS and you should be ok.
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This is spot on. Wireless and security cameras are not a good mix. You really need full duplex to get good frame rates etc… Not to mention all that wifi chatter will dick up your other traffic without VLAN/QOS. Either way you should be doing VLAN for something like sec cameras IMO.
^Yep, a WiFi slap fight is never good. I’m sure there are some guides on doing it better than I can explain.
I’ll sell you a nas case and raid controller card all you need is a mini itx board and hard drives…
Now running SabNZB with SickBeard and CouchPotato. Why didn’t I do this sooner?
Sorry Honda, already bought that Lenovo server setup. Should be here by mid week. Need to get 4 more GB of Ram, an HDD and a longer SATA cable. Probably going to throw FreeNAS on a thumb drive to boot from and store my media on the hard drive.
I’m looking to get my server going on a VPN though. The idea of using the above mentioned programs by @boardjnky4 worries me. What setup do you have? Is a paid VPN worth it or if I setup my own VPN is that good enough?