I was thinking of getting an Odroid N2+ to use as a Jellyfin/Plex server. What other things can it be used for?
I know there is RetroPie but I have no interest in that. Any other suggestions?
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There are so many possibilities that I won’t be able to list them all here. I’d suggest taking a look at https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted and maybe r/selfhosted, but fair warning, it’s really easy to spend hours looking through all the possibilities. Don’t ask me how I know :p
Not all of these will run on an ARM machine unfortunately, so you might have to do a bit of research, but most of them should work fine.
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If you want to use Jellyfin/Plex (btw I would recommend Jellyfin open-source and overall better) I would look into Sonarr/Radarr/Prowlarr to automate downloading TV shows and movies. Also, if you are interested in home automation, Home Assistant is really nice.
I would have preferred Jellyfin as well but chromecast was not working on my TV properly. So I tried Plex which worked fine.
There are only a few things I like to watch so I don’t need jackett etc.
Then I realised that I can just use a dlna server and cast using VLC for Android. This is working much better for me than Jellyfin or Plex which are overly complicated. I cannot even disable metadeta fetching in Plex. And have to log in their central server for some unknown reason.
If you are satisfied with DLNA, both Jellyfin and Plex enable that. But yeah, the best feature of those is syncing across devices and overall library management, so if you don’t need that, DLNA by itself is probably easier.
Pihole is a very useful starting project.
Yeah good suggestion. Thanks. Will look into it.
Look for Crosstalk solutions pihole tutorial and Veronica explains SSH tutorial.
Those 2 videos will teach you a lot.
One thing that does a LOT for me is Pihole for adblocking - but I thing that would borrow the odroid. Mine is running on an pi3 which ich never over 10%CPU while doing it’s thing.
I’m using blocky for this
