Setting up 4 x Raspberry Pi as a media wall / PiWall
Quick notes on setting up 4 Raspberry Pi’s for a media wall using the PiWall info from piwall.co.uk and the...
Setting up a Raspberry Pi 3 as a WiFi media server
So, until now, on long trips, I had setup a small netbook running Ubuntu with a DLNA media server, with...
Replacing server hard drives with larger ones using CloneZilla
These are the steps I use to replace/upgrade hard drives in a server. In this example, I am upgrading from...
3 Ways to install a Ubiquiti UniFi Security Gateway (USG)
1) External UniFi Controller On the external UniFi controller, log in and click on the settings icon (two gears in...
Installing Emby on Ubuntu 15.04 server
I’m creating this because I setup Emby on Ubuntu 14.04 server and then ended up with have the metadata missing....
How To: Netflix style streaming site for your home
Currently I have a data server using unRaid that is also used to store media. I run the PS3 Media...
Manually Adding Ubiquiti Unifi Access Point To Unifi Contoller
This is the process to add a new Unifi AP to the Unifi controller when discovery doesn’t work. In our...
Read/Write HDD Speed Test
These are the observations I recorded while doing some read/write speed tests on a server. The main goal was to...
Redundant Backup Storage Device
So, I’ve learned about different network backup storage devices and thought I would give a crack at putting one together...
Portable Minecraft on USB Flash Drive
This is the process to build a bootable USB flash drive with Lubuntu Live 14.04 and set it up to...