Streamline your home media experience
SickRage can be installed on the Synology NAS Servers for automating periodic video downloads from usenet and torrents. This guide shows you how to install SickRage on your Synology NAS as simply as possible. I tested this in a virtual environment and have no doubt that it will work for … I'm curious
OpenMediaVault is an excellent NAS software solution. It sports a beautiful web interface to manage all of your services, hard drives, users and more. There is a great plugin system which allows you to install software for usenet, torrent and media management. The Banana Pi has a Plex Media Server plugin … I'm curious
Somebody on reddit requested a Raspberry Pi 2 Media Server image. I have put together a ready to go image so you can test drive a Raspberry Pi 2 NAS media server. It is packed with programs and features made entirely from guides on this site. It is for those … I'm curious
I recently gave away a $40 Amazon voucher so now it is time for another HTPC Guides giveaway. One of the benefits of running this blog is I get to test and benchmark sweet new hardware. I already have an Orange Pi Mini for my collection so I am giving away … I'm curious
My previous unRAR and PAR2 benchmarks only included ARM devices. Somebody on reddit requested additional data comparing the devices to more modern and powerful hardware. I have added an old 32-bit machine and a relatively modern 64-bit machine to the tests. Hopefully these tests help you decide if switching to … I'm curious
Plex Media Server can finally run natively on ARMv7 devices. We use the Synology package and make some modifications thanks to uglymagoo on the Plex forum to get it to work. Direct play works beautifully but transcoding is very limited. This guide was tested on the ODROID-C1 but should work on … I'm curious
If you haven’t heard of the Banana Pi see some benchmarks first. You may have heard you can connect multiple SATA hard drives to your Banana Pi or other ARMv7 device. That currently requires a kernel rebuild for the Allwinner A20 chipset if you are using Bananian so it can … I'm curious