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blaaislaai

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Not much of a project, but I'm using my PI for all my 3D printing jobs.
https://octoprint.org/

Managing of prints, detailed information of prints and the app have a lot of neat plugins giving even more functionality.

DDNS setup as well to monitor my prints externally as well as a webcam connected to watch the printer do its magic.
 
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K3NS31

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ThatOtherDude said:
I'm currently using an old PC as a media centre, connected to my router via 100baseT & a then to my 42" LCD via HDMI.

We stream DSTV, Netflix, Popcorntime, Kodi, & the odd youtube movie..

With rolling blackouts becoming more frequent, I was thinking of moving to a Pi based media center.
Assuming that it draws MUCH less current than my PC = longer battery life for my battery bank + inverter.


Question: What kind of "media center" experience can I expect?
would it be similar to the Windows 10 PC running Netflix, Chrome, Kodi etc?

I was thinking of installing Rasbian.

Is it a good idea of am I wasting my time?
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As the man said above, OSMC or Libre Elec on your Pi. Works brilliantly.
I use mine in conjunction with a Chromecast. So Chromecast from main PC or phone / tablet running Netflix / Showmax / DSTV (i.e. proprietary / fussy apps). Bonus - can cast music, slideshow pics etc.

All other content via Raspberry Pi with either HDD plugged in or over network (best option).

Oh, re your Raspbian query - OSMC is the "new" version of Raspbian (same guy).
 
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I use my Pi 3 to run Plex/Sonarr/SABnzb+.and am very happy with the results.
 
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Can you use a pi to reliably run a Plex server? All the media would be on a NAS. Wondering if it can transcode on the fly incl h265 codec?
 
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I use my Raspberry Pi with Emonpi to monitor my Solar offgrid system. It monitors in real time, solar harvest, peak generation, battery charge and discharge level and creates a daily chart. It also sends the output to a cloud vps every 10 sec allowing the information to be seen from this dashboard http://energy.bobby.com.ng/dashboard/view?id=1

I also use it as an wireless internet router, I have a usb LTE modem connected to the Pi, the internet from the modem is shared wirelessly to devices around the house. The Pi also has openhab installed and I intend to use that to be the heat beat of the home automation system using sonof wireless relays.

Other Single board computer projects are:

Helios4 Nas server with 4 3TB drives running in RAID 6, The host all media content, VMs and docker images. I have NFS, SMB running on them

Odroid N2: Media Box, running Kodi and other services like Nagios to monitor the health of device hardware and services running in the house including the health of the disks running on the Media server. , a small webserver with educational content for my kids and other things that might come to mind.
 
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