2016-07-22, 22:11
Let me know if this is even possible. I currently have a laptop with a bad backlight running windows 10, this serves as a server for Kodi/MySQL, and downloads with sabnzbd and sonarr.
Currently I have an external hard drive connected, and only forsee adding one more in the future. I don't do a lot of 1080p media, so 3-6TB seems more than sufficient.
I have a Raspberry PI just sitting around doing nothing right now, and feel a laptop is using more power/electricity than a RPi ever would. I don't want to invest in a NAS right now, and don't need redundant storage. If I lose videos, so be it, I'm not putting anything important on these drives.
What Id like to do is use the Raspberry PI to take the place of the laptop, but I need all the same functionality. The Pi will not actually play anything through Kodi on it, but rather just host the MySQL database (which i understand I have to have Kodi running for this all to work). If I can have some central updatable database without Kodi running full time, I'm all ears, but Im sure it must run 24x7.
I want to be able to remotely add NZB files for it to download to the external drives. sabnzbd fits the bill and is pretty much platform agnostic, so it'll be happy with whatever i throw it on. I use Sonarr for automated tv show handling, as sickbeard stopped working for me quite a while ago, and I like the Sonarr UI better too. Its also happy with linux, so I should be okay there.
I don't plan on hooking a screen to the PI if i can get away with it, so it'd be nice to have some way to remote in to graphically control it via a separate OS X or Windows computer. This isn't a show stopper, but it'd be nice to have so I don't need to hook a screen to it.
I assume some kind of linux flavor is going to be required to do all of this. My experience in linux is somewhat limited, so a user-friendly UI/GUI would be nice over everything command line.
Is what I'm looking for easily possible? Should it be pretty solid?
BTW its a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B
Currently I have an external hard drive connected, and only forsee adding one more in the future. I don't do a lot of 1080p media, so 3-6TB seems more than sufficient.
I have a Raspberry PI just sitting around doing nothing right now, and feel a laptop is using more power/electricity than a RPi ever would. I don't want to invest in a NAS right now, and don't need redundant storage. If I lose videos, so be it, I'm not putting anything important on these drives.
What Id like to do is use the Raspberry PI to take the place of the laptop, but I need all the same functionality. The Pi will not actually play anything through Kodi on it, but rather just host the MySQL database (which i understand I have to have Kodi running for this all to work). If I can have some central updatable database without Kodi running full time, I'm all ears, but Im sure it must run 24x7.
I want to be able to remotely add NZB files for it to download to the external drives. sabnzbd fits the bill and is pretty much platform agnostic, so it'll be happy with whatever i throw it on. I use Sonarr for automated tv show handling, as sickbeard stopped working for me quite a while ago, and I like the Sonarr UI better too. Its also happy with linux, so I should be okay there.
I don't plan on hooking a screen to the PI if i can get away with it, so it'd be nice to have some way to remote in to graphically control it via a separate OS X or Windows computer. This isn't a show stopper, but it'd be nice to have so I don't need to hook a screen to it.
I assume some kind of linux flavor is going to be required to do all of this. My experience in linux is somewhat limited, so a user-friendly UI/GUI would be nice over everything command line.
Is what I'm looking for easily possible? Should it be pretty solid?
BTW its a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B