So here I am, an Apple TV upstairs and a Roku downstairs, Plex Media Server and iTunes running on the Mac Mini downstairs. I am a little frustrated that manufacturers want to have it all to themselves and not let individuals have a choice in how they view their media. Well, now I can watch the audio and video that I have stored away on the Mac Mini, but right now I have duplicate files on the system. I am not exactly sure of how PMS and iTunes will play together. I do know that I can let PMS access the iTunes library so that is one way of reducing the amount of files available. Right now I have 3TB of storage to do my thing, but I am the type of person that watches how much data I store since I have been burned in the past.
I am seriously thinking of moving the desktop system from upstairs to downstairs and plugging it into the HDTV. In that way, I should be able to use WMC to play the TV channels from the HDHomeRun Prime. Such a simple idea and yet to get it to work, it causes great grief. Not sure what the next round of experiments will bring.
- LW
This is a blog mostly about techie things, what I am doing to my apartment network on the cheap, IOT, 3D Printing, Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, ESP32, ESP8266, Home Automation, Personal Weather Stations, Things That Go Bump in the Night, and some side issues that need discussing. Remember, sometimes the journey to an end is as much fun as the goal achieved!
