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Good evening folks. I am looking for some advice on where to begin with some specific devices that I own.

My overall goal is mainly that I want to be able to be able to host my digital collection of movies and tv shows on my network, so my wife and I can easily access them from our TV or computers while we work. I have got a few odds and ends for different devices so I'm hoping to share those and find out what my best options are.

The summer before my first year of college I got two Raspberry Pi 3b+ from this Linux camp thing I went to at one of my local colleges. I'm pretty comfortable using them, but i've never actually had a project where they would be really useful.

I also have an older NUC type of computer that had been running OpenWRT, my previous job had moved buildings and there was a lot of things up for grabs, it has a Celeron J1900 and I think 4 gigs of ram but I'd have to double check.

Also from that job I have an older LG NAS (https://www.lg.com/us/burners-drives/lg-N2B1DD2-network-attached-storage) with 2tb of storage that ideally would be what i'd use, though I could sell it and maybe set up something for efficient with one of the PI's?

With all that in mind, does anyone have any recommendations for a setup for media hosting with these devices? I know I could use one of the Pi's to connect from a distance (My new job I am wfh but will be staying in hotels for days at a time so being able to access movies would be nice). Any other suggestions would be appreciated! Once I know where to begin I'll have no problem researching and getting everything up, but knowing where to start has been the hardest part for me so far

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[–] Shepy 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, and look into port forwarding the Jellyfin on your router, so you can access it outside of your network for when you are in hotels. Then you could either connect via ip address or use something like No-IP to get a free hostname to point at it