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My HTPC setup at home is to have my content on my laptop, running Plex server and I connect my android phone to my TV with the Plex Android app. Really, really
by sandGorgon 13y ago
My HTPC setup at home is to have my content on my laptop, running Plex server and I connect my android phone to my TV with the Plex Android app.
Really, really good - in fact, I have seen people do the same with the 20$ android media sticks that you can buy off dealextreme or someplace.
A great alternative to chromecast.
- thejosh 13y agoPlex is great. It runs on Samsung Smart TVs, which runs all our home media that allows kids to watch old home footage.
- grumps 13y agoHave you run this on Debian? I see they offer an ubuntu package, and a few RPM packages.
- sandGorgon 13y agoIt should work on both. Ubuntu is built on top of a debian core. Plus Im running 12.04 - which is a old, stable release - so should be more in sync with upstream debian.
- doublerebel 13y agoPlex also has an interesting business model: Free server software, in a dead simple installation package, with config and streaming through a pleasant html5 UI. Smart TV app also free. Small but not insignificant charge for iOS and Android clients. Small SaaS charge to provide dynamicdns /remote streaming. It's so much of what Boxee aimed for and failed. I like hacking on things, but Plex works perfect out-of-the-box. Really impressed ever since I started using the software a year ago.
- sandGorgon 13y agoFrom what I understand, it used to be a fork of XMBC. I think the ability to do the client/server model is possible with XBMC, but very hard to do out of the box. But I agree - plex was worth the purchase of the mobile app.