2012-10-30, 00:23
Hello everyone. I have a few basic questions (or at least I think) and while I'm sure they are answered elsewhere, my questions will likely evolve into other questions.
So to start, I bought my first house a few months back. I built a NUS (Network Unified Storage) server, using the Norco RPC-4224 chassis (24 hot swap bays) and an LSI MegaRAID 9261-8i SAS Controller and an HP SAS Expander. While it's not full of drives yet, this is my new storage server. It will be used both for SMB and iSCSI (2 node Hyper-V Cluster -- Most VMs are local storage, but some are run from iSCSI Target). I will be soon running STP Cat6 throughout my house, and will be building an HTPC for the living room. The HTPC will be powerful...will have a dedicated GPU. I want to use it for streaming content from my NUS primarily, which I know XBMC can do. However, I want do emulation gaming (anything from NES, GB/GBA, Wii, N64, Genesis) as well as PC gaming (not as much...but would be like CS: GO, SC/SC2, D3, etc). Lastly, I want my HTPC to be able to provide online content (browser, Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, etc). Now I am pretty sure that XBMC can do all this without a problem, right?
What is the setup process for XBMC in my scenario? Do I have a backend server running XBMC and have my clients (HTPC, etc) that connect to the central XBMC? Ideally, I would like to spin up a VM and have that do the cataloging, etc. while my HTPC is just a frontend device (and it would be likely that I would get Raspberry Pi's for the bedroom and home office to run XBMC as well).
Also, I have DirecTV. If I still had cable, I would consider getting a Hauppauge, and do the PVR thing...but that's not an option with DTV. Is there anything XBMC can do with DTV (not in recording, persay)...like plugins that do something in regards to DTV?
So to start, I bought my first house a few months back. I built a NUS (Network Unified Storage) server, using the Norco RPC-4224 chassis (24 hot swap bays) and an LSI MegaRAID 9261-8i SAS Controller and an HP SAS Expander. While it's not full of drives yet, this is my new storage server. It will be used both for SMB and iSCSI (2 node Hyper-V Cluster -- Most VMs are local storage, but some are run from iSCSI Target). I will be soon running STP Cat6 throughout my house, and will be building an HTPC for the living room. The HTPC will be powerful...will have a dedicated GPU. I want to use it for streaming content from my NUS primarily, which I know XBMC can do. However, I want do emulation gaming (anything from NES, GB/GBA, Wii, N64, Genesis) as well as PC gaming (not as much...but would be like CS: GO, SC/SC2, D3, etc). Lastly, I want my HTPC to be able to provide online content (browser, Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, etc). Now I am pretty sure that XBMC can do all this without a problem, right?
What is the setup process for XBMC in my scenario? Do I have a backend server running XBMC and have my clients (HTPC, etc) that connect to the central XBMC? Ideally, I would like to spin up a VM and have that do the cataloging, etc. while my HTPC is just a frontend device (and it would be likely that I would get Raspberry Pi's for the bedroom and home office to run XBMC as well).
Also, I have DirecTV. If I still had cable, I would consider getting a Hauppauge, and do the PVR thing...but that's not an option with DTV. Is there anything XBMC can do with DTV (not in recording, persay)...like plugins that do something in regards to DTV?