Heading to the beach with a portable @plex server, router, and a WireGuard tunnel back home.
cc @caseyliss

  • ObiniceEnglish
    21•1 year ago

    …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? :-(

    • Sam DoranOP
      13•1 year 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.

  • kratoz29English
    9•1 year ago

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

    • Sam DoranOP
      5•1 year 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.

    • Sam DoranOP
      2•1 year ago

      @1bluepixel There’s no telling what the internet situation is like at the vacation home. We’ve been stranded before with no internet where it rained all week.

  • Dr. WeskerEnglish
    2•1 year ago

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

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 year ago

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

    • Sam DoranOP
      2•1 year 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]English
    1•1 year 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

  • @keyezEnglish
    1•1 year 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

  • AlligatoradeEnglish
    1•1 year ago

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