<div dir="ltr">FWIW, earlier this year I decided to pull the plug on Rogers and go antenna+Internet.<div><br></div><div>Process so far:</div><div><ul><li>Get Rogers out for everything, replaced by teksavvy 50M DSL and a Usenet account</li>
<li>Got a Channel Mater antenna which feeds into an HDHomerun<br></li><li>Ubuntu server running Plex Media Server, TVHeadend, Sickbeard, CouchPotato and Deluge<br></li><li>Clients are a mix of XBMC and Plex (unfortunately, each has its own set of insufferable flaws):</li>
<ul><li>The main room is a Win7 PC because it is proxied to get US Netflix, Pandora, Hulu, BBC iPlayer as well as Plex Home Theater</li><li>I have two Pis running RasPlex and OpenELEC (haven't picked between them yet)</li>
<li>Seriously considering the <a href="http://cubox-i.com/">CuBox</a> to replace the Pi's -- less fragile case and built-in IR receivers</li></ul></ul><div>Still having problems making the TVheadend PVR work. I've been experimenting with a few different remotes but haven't yet found one I completely like.</div>
<div>But generally happy overall, and I'm paying $200 a month less than I used to.</div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 December 2013 00:15, Matt Price <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moptop99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">moptop99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Stewart C. Russell <<a href="mailto:scruss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">scruss@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I've been doing something similar to Richard for the last four years.<br>
> Here's my setup:<br>
><br>
> * server: a SheevaPlug (could very easily be a Raspberry Pi).<br>
><br>
> * software: Firefly/mt-daapd (this is now unmaintained code, and lots of<br>
> people have complained about the code quality and produced a variety of<br>
> half-assed forks, but it's been rock solid for me for a 30,000+ track<br>
> collection). You want the r1696 nightly, or one of its Debian patched<br>
> relations. The least half-assed fork is forked-daapd, which adds iPhone<br>
> remote control but loses mt-daapd's SQL-based smart playlists.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>huh. I hadn't heard of this at all. And it looks like forked-daapd<br>
will run on openwrt, so maybe I could just use our router as the main<br>
media server (wow!).<br>
<br>
Has the disadvantage of being itunes-centric. But as I understand it<br>
rhythmbox can manage daap, and there's an android app or two I see<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> * hardware: ancient Roku SoundBridges. If you can find these used,<br>
> they're pretty good. They crop up on eBay quite a lot because Roku<br>
> shipped crappy power supplies that couldn't drive the big VFD displays<br>
> on the SoundBridge. A new decent PSU can be had for about $10. They do<br>
> wireless (sorta; the very latest supported G) and wired networking, and<br>
> have phono, mini-stereo and TOSLINK digital outputs.<br>
><br>
</div>interesting.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> mt-daapd and its variants pretend to be an iTunes shared library. There<br>
> is lots of software that supports this (curiously, the frequently least<br>
> compatible is … iTunes. Hmm). I have had little success with DLNA; I<br>
> don't think devices expect to get 35,000 tracks come at them. My DVD<br>
> player goes to sleep before it has parsed the whole stream.<br>
><br>
> Transcoding with a Raspberry Pi will be difficult. You should *just* be<br>
> able to do a single stream from flac → mp3 in real time. Last time I<br>
> benchmarked it, lame -V2 encoded at 1.3× real time on the Pi. There are<br>
> no really good fixed-point MP3 encoders, so lightweight ARM chips really<br>
> struggle.<br>
<br>
</div>ok, that's good to know, thanks.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> Many NAS boxes have mt-daapd built in. My Synology one is slowly<br>
> becoming my main music server, as its dual-core PPC has a little more<br>
> grunt than an ARM, and it serves tunes just fine. So you may not need a<br>
> separate server.<br>
<br>
</div>ok, neat, thanks<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
><br>
> cheers,<br>
> Stewart<br>
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