I like MythTV: a client/server based TV-Recording application. Very good at planning recordings, avoiding conflicts etc. MythTv ss able to handle multiple sources (Cable, Satellit, IP-TV, DVB ... , to play DVD and much more.
Ask HN: What is your home media PC setup?
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#12I tried to have a good and not expensive approach on that. So in my opinion i have a quite conservative setting.
I have a raspberry pi 3 with osmc installed via noobs at startup. Additionally I bought a DVB-S USB Stick (http://sundtek.com/shop/Digital-TV-Sticks/Sundtek-SkyTV-Ulti...) for germany. A standard TV is connected via HDMI. I use a KODI android app as a remote control.
Additionally I have bought 1 TB NAS on ebay in the cellar which is connected via network cable to the wifi router.
Without TV I had total cost of approximately 300 €
I have connected all music services (soundcloud, etc), all mediathek services of german and austria television providers. Also youtube and vimeo. Everything works great and was extremely low cost, i would say.
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#13TV -- Raspberry Pi 2 / Raspbian / Kodi -- 3TB disk
Remote control with Kodi iOS apps.
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#14I just have a windows 10 machine plugged into the TV. I have a server farm upstairs with plenty of storage for archives of TV shows if I want them, but these days I can get pretty much anything I want from one of the streaming services online.
I also have a glass table between the couch and the TV, so a dark field mouse is required if I'm doing anything that needs a real mouse. For everything else I just use a wireless keyboard/trackpad combo from Logitech.
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#15Personally I'm using a Playstation 3 and Plex. Maybe not the most sexy of solutions, but it's cheap, has worked flawlessly for years and I can even play games on it if the mood takes me.
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#16Synology 1513+ running Plex Server and a FireTV Box stuck to every TV in the house. All of my media is stored on the Synology (5x 4TB drives). I also have one of the less used PCs in the house running Plex Server, and we connect to that for viewing Plex Channels (basically, plugins that front-end NBC.com, ABC.com, and a bunch of other services) to take some of the transcoding load off the Synology. I have a lifetime…
+1 for Synology. I've got the DS214play which is the entry-level version that supports transcoding [1]. It doubles as a backup to all my photos [2][3][4].
[1] https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS216play
[2] https://medium.com/vantage/understanding-my-need-for-an-auto...
[3] https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal...
[4] https://medium.com/swlh/my-automated-photo-workflow-using-go...
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#17All my flat panel TVs have Roku 3 boxes (I don't see the need for 4K video since most of my content isn't 4K). I took a 2010 15" MacBook running 3 versions of OSX behind Seira and that runs Plex Media Server. This setup gives us easy access to Netflix, Amazon Prime as well as local content sourced from DVDs we own. Plex also lets us share videos created from our phones as well but that's probably its weakest feature.
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#18All my flat panel TVs have Roku 3 boxes (I don't see the need for 4K video since most of my content isn't 4K). I took a 2010 15" MacBook running 3 versions of OSX behind Seira and that runs Plex Media Server. This setup gives us easy access to Netflix, Amazon Prime as well as local content sourced from DVDs we own. Plex also lets us share videos created from our phones as well but that's probably its weakest feature.
Another poster commented on network issues and he's definitely correct. In terms of our network, I'm running an access point from our fiber provider connected to an Eero wifi range extender coupled to a Circle network filter. All of our Roku boxes are connected to wifi except for 1 which is hard wired. The Eero boxes span 3 floors and performance is (finally) pretty good.
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#19I just have a windows 10 machine plugged into the TV. I have a server farm upstairs with plenty of storage for archives of TV shows if I want them, but these days I can get pretty much anything I want from one of the streaming services online. I also have a glass table between the couch and the TV, so a dark field mouse is required if I'm doing anything that needs a real mouse. For everything else I just use a wirele…
You could check out the Remote Control Collection app. It will allow you to use your phone for controlling the mouse, keyboard and media players.
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