Like others have said, I also prefer having a backup and getting new HW when shit hits the fan.
You can build a warm-standby solution, but that road is both costly and more labor intensive.
The family can survive for a few hours while I run out to get a new drive or NUC to fix stuff.
If you’re lucky, it happens right after dinner so you can skip clean-up too!
I have three servers running these days.
One is a NAS that hosts the .arr suite and my torrent client. This is just to keep the media management in one place.
A N100 NUC that runs a lot of stuff in Proxmox, like Jellyfin, Heimdal, HomeAssistant, PiHole, Tailscale. I hope to add Caddy to this in the future, but I’ve never played with a reverse proxy before so I’m a tiny bit scared hehe.
Lastly is a inudstrial PC I got from work that hosts game servers. Right now it’s down as we haven’t had time to game, but usually it’s either a Minecraft server or Valheim.
For backup I have one copy on the NAS and I upload the most critical data to a cloud service I trust and pay for. This is now Proton.
My dream is finding a tech friend with his/her own NAS so we can set up a encrypted partition on each others NASes for automatic backup. I give you 1 TB, you give me 1 TB, life’s good!
As with most things: it depends…
If you’re in a country where ISP’s freely give out user info, I’d say you should have a VPN.
If you’re on a private tracker, you might not need it, but you never know if the people hunting pirates managed to get in there too.
I don’t use one as our ISP’s mostly throw those letters in the trash and I’m in a private tracker, but your mileage may vary.
To get started, you only need a server (like Jellyfin or Plex) and a torrent client. Then you can automate it with the .arr stack, such as Radarr and Sonarr, race others with autodl-issri/Autobrr, share your media with friends and family with open ports (not recommended) or Tailscale/Netbird…
It gets as advanced as you yourself want it to be.
Feel free to ask if you have any questions, not just about piracy but how to set things up in general.
Good luck, and remember to have fun while doing it. If you don’t, you won’t bother keeping it updated and working in the future.
Webrips. That’s how we get movies and shows today without waiting for physical media being released
Ooooo I’ve been pushing this waiting for a final release. Seems I no longer have an excuse not to update.
Really well done by the devs. Looking forward to testing it!
Edit: just did the upgrade in my LXC. It literally took three minutes on a N100 NUC and worked instantly. Just had to clear the cache on a few of the phone apps and log back in.
The server looks a lot better, so kudos again to the devs!
Yupp, pops up randomly after downloading (probably a schedule but I don’t know when it runs). If I need it straight away, a manual scan takes 15 seconds.
I usually notice something new has dropped when it pops up in “Recently added” and never check qBit or the .arr’s.
NFS share from NAS and Jellyfin on separate Proxmox server.
Are you streaming to a Chromecast, by any chance? Or a older Galaxy device?
The 4k Chromecast with Google TV does not support AV1, but the 1080p version does. Jellyfin tried Direct Playing AV1 files, which obviously went poorly.
I run the same CPU in my NUC as you do, and all data is on a NAS shared with NFS. It’s been absolutely bulletproof for about a year, so I’m confident you should be able to make this work.
Any other containers running at the same time?
No cooling issues?
Just asking because mine dropped massively in temp when repasted.
Yeah my CCwGTV is what died, so I ended up with their streamer. Hopefully locking sideloading is not something that will happen yet, but they are fighting hard to control how we use the internet these days.
Give me a AppleTV with sideloading and I’d pick it up in a heartbeat. It just works so well.
You could buy a small NUC and format to Linux, but you’d be stuck with either a keyboard or some small keyboard-like remote in the living room.
Let’s hope for better offerings in the future!
Honestly, if YT didn’t up their prices for Premium over and over I would have gone with Apple TV in a heartbeat.
Right now it’s a bloody principle to not pay for that shit, but I live with tiny tiny humans who use it a lot more than myself.
I ended up with the streamer, but not entierly happily. If Valve or Nvidia drops something proper, it will be sold fast.
Thanks for your input!
Never seen this, pretty cool!
It still needs to be app based for the family to approve sadly, so it’s either Android og Apple. Super advice for those with less stringent “rules” though, hehe. Cheers!
In that case, I stand corrected!
I still couldn’t justify the price tag for a new one, but I will if they release something with the Switch 2 SoC !
Makes sense. If my CCwGTV wouldnt have needed rebooting several times a week, I would have held out a lot longer too.
I just can’t justify shelling out $250+ for the Shield now that it’s this old. Found nothing used nearby.
Just picked up the Google Streamer. It’ll do for now and at least I know it works for what I need
Yeah I just came home with one. I dislike the small upgrade from the CCwGTV, but I needed something now to keep the peace.
I’ll stick with it untill something much better turns up. Cheers mate
Yeah it’s been suggested by others and I’d love it myself, but it won’t fly having a keyboard in the living room.
The server is a N100 running Proxmox and working like an absolute champion! Love these things.
Thanks for the input anyways. We totally agree, I’m just not in charge anymore
Hehe yeah, if I could choose we’d have a NUC in the living room, but I’m outnumbered in this house. Apps and remote control are must-haves
I was dumb enough to suggest the same. You are obviously the smarter of us.
Cheers mate! Enjoy your weekend
Yeah, I’m not an Apple-man myself, but I know several who are and I get that once you’re in the ecosystem, it’s a very comfy place to be. And functional, of course. I just generally try to avoid walled gardens unless I “have to”.
Personally, paying for Premium is not an option. It’s $17 here, which is just absurdly overpriced IMHO.
Strange about the volume controls…
Is the soundbar/amp connected via HDMI Arc?
If yes, it sounds like some settings with HDMI CEC is messed up. Usually these things can be set manually on the TV or device itself.
If you’ve tried everything, then ignore my uncalled for advice and enjoy the day.
Appreciate the input as well, mate!
I think the product is really exciting, but I’d have a very hard time convincing by better half and kids that it’s an upgrade, sadly.
I’ll do some more reading on it before I purchase anything else though, so thanks a lot for the input!
I think our partners could be sisters, tbh…
My conclusion is pretty much the same as yours, but I still wanted to double check for fresh inputs: I’m stuck with Google for now, unless I want to test a Chinese product.
I just have this feeling that the moment I purchase the TV Streamer, Nvidia or Valve will release something awesome that blows it out of the water.
Maybe that means I should buy it to help everyone else on the fence…
Yeah I can’t argue with that, it’s more that I have no financial gain in this setup, so every redundancy set up costs me directly. At some point I have to say that it’s good enough.
It’s always a trade-off I guess, with cost being the deciding factor.
If I ever build a new house, I’m having a proper rack with room for a redundant server for sure!