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it is just an alternative to home servers and consumes approx 5 watts. There are other uses for TonidoPlug - not limited to media streaming

• electromagnetic 17y ago
  So it itself consumes ~5 watts, does this include the hard drive and routers required to store and transmit the data, or solely the device itself?
  • codemechanic 17y ago
    Yeah that includes the hard drive. Once you have a 24/7 dlna/upnp server u can play not only from TV and other computers as well. It is not a game changing device but there is a value in it. i rest my case.
    • gnubardt 17y ago
      5watts is the consumption for the device itself, which includes 512mb of storage. An external hard drive would require additional storage. It's a packaged sheevaplug http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/develope... You can do the same thing using fuppes, an updated version of uShare. Fuppes also supports transcoding, uses a sqlite backend and can rescan watch folders to rebuild the database pretty quickly (either from cli or web interface, without restarting). I use it to stream to an xbox360 and it works perfectly. Haven't tried transcoding though since all my video is compatible.