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Heading to the beach with a portable @plex server, router, and a WireGuard tunnel back home.
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[–] obinice 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

....why, though?

I mean, technology is cool and I like a neat portable setup as much as the next person, but why take this to a beach? Can you not be away from social networks and your home LAN for even a few hours at a beach? :-(

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

@obinice Only for maybe one or two nights where we do a family movie night after very long days outdoors. It was just a fun thing to build for the fun of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Because he can I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why WG to the home if you have your Plex Server with you?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

@kratoz29 That’s mainly so I can access the cameras back home to check on the house/animals. They are on a subnet with no outbound access.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Is it possible to condense it all down to one Pi unit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The best thing about Plex is being able to play it on anything. HDMI out of your phone/laptop makes more sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

@willya I’ve done that in the past. It works ok. I bring an Apple TV to use as the client. I like the tvOS Plex app quite a bit and I don’t have to use VNC or get up to control it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I’m planing to get a pi in the future to build mount the Plex server and other stuff like vpn for home etc … can I get some guidance on what to look and what type of storage (physically small) to attach to it? Also it can be used as a seed box ? All together

[–] keyez 1 points 2 years ago

Really wish I had something like this for my vacation right now, would be nice to be able to play some episodes from plex or watch a bit women's world cup games but this airbnb only has 1 appletv

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Do you use a sim card for the router? How much data do you have?