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FTP is a simple way to transfer files from your Raspberry Pi to other devices. It is also the fastest method for transferring data between devices – at least faster than SAMBA (see Raspberry vs Banana Pi Benchmarks: Do SATA and Gigabit Matter?). If you are using your Raspberry … I'm curious
Sonarr is a badass TV Show PVR that works with usenet and torrents. Create a list of shows and Sonarr will find the relevant .torrent and/or nzb files for you. For torrents it will work with uTorrent, Transmission, Deluge and a watch directory ‘blackhole’ for other torrent clients. With usenet download clients … I'm curious
A Reverse proxy is a cool way to remotely access your media server’s web interfaces. When you are done with this guide you will be able to use your free dynamic DNS address (Windows Afraid DNS Guide) like htpcguides.crabdance.com/sabnzbd instead of htpcguides.crabdance.com:8080. This means fewer open ports on … I'm curious
Minibian is an awesome lightweight Raspberry Pi distro based on Raspbian. It uses all the same repos so you should not notice any differences. It uses only 16MB of RAM on boot and takes up about 300MB on the SD card – so you only need a 1 GB SD … I'm curious
Many usenet and torrent programs startup using the Windows startup folder. While this generally works it is not ideal for processes that can freeze or hang – you want to be able to restart your program’s service without having to reboot the whole machine or Ctrl+Alt+Delete. I made a previous … I'm curious
I have created many SickRage guides to help automate TV downloads for you media server. A popular one is the SickRage Windows install guide which works very well on Windows 7 and 8. However, thanks to some comments I have found out that the Visual Basic script does not always … I'm curious
I have created many guides for the Raspberry Pi as a media server, while the RPi mostly holds its own there are lags and freezes. I think people expect too much of the low-powered beast sometimes, after all it was created for learning programming and development – not media servers. I … I'm curious