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Raspberry Pi as Plex Media Server
This post covers installing Plex Media Server on a Raspberry Pi 4 B and keeping Plex up to date. Plex is in my opinion the best way to enjoy your media. Whether it’s your old DVD collect, Live TV or family photos, Plex can make it look beautiful and easy to access. The brain of Plex is Plex Media Server. In this post I will walk through two methods of installing Plex Media Server on your Raspberry Pi. ...

2023-03-12
Raspberry Pi as TimeMachine and NAS
This post covers configuring a Raspberry Pi 4 B as a TimeMachine and NAS Server. Raspberry Pi offers a great guide on how to setup a NAS server (that also supports TimeMachine) using openmediavault. This post however takes a different approach, where you will configure Samba manually to make your TimeMachine and NAS available on your network. This is part 3 of 4 in a mini series where we will configure a headless Raspberry Pi 4 B as an efficient home server, capable of hosting Network Attached Storage (NAS), TimeMachine and Plex Media Server. ...

2023-02-24
Raspberry Pi Backup
This post covers implementing an effective backup strategy for your Raspberry Pi Having a plan for how to recover when things break down is essential when you depend on your server. This is part 2 of 4 in a mini series where we will configure a headless Raspberry Pi 4 B as an efficient home server, capable of hosting Network Attached Storage (NAS), TimeMachine and Plex Media Server. Through this series we will also look at how we can make automatic backups to keep uor data safe. ...

2023-02-10
Headless Raspberry Pi Server
This post covers setting up a headless Raspberry Pi 4 B from scratch. Raspberry Pi has excellent documentation on how to setup and configure a Raspberry Pi. This post leans on the official documentation and focus on the parts that are essential to get up and running. This is part 1 of 4 in a mini series where we will configure a headless Raspberry Pi 4 B as an efficient home server, capable of hosting Network Attached Storage (NAS), TimeMachine and Plex Media Server. ...

2023-01-27