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Content is King - Spidernan - 2020-07-31 I have been using Kodi for quite a while now. I first used it in 2013 when, if memory serves, it was XBMC Version 12 (Frodo). It has come in leaps and bounds since then and I would not be without it. I started with just a single PC attached to the TV with a USB 500mb drive with about 100 films on it. We have definitely moved on from that. We now have about 2,000 films and, too keep my wife happy, we have moved more into TV shows and have about 700 full shows that include about 13,000 episodes between them. This did not happen overnight and has been a gradual progression into what we now use. The hardware list has grown somewhat as has the content that we can now consume in Kodi. Kodi uses MySql for the video and music libraries and all content is on network drive. No local storage at all (or streamed for that matter). I have 5 Kodi clients using a variety of hardware but they are all setup exactly the same apart from the audio setup on the main system in the front room which is set for 5.1 and audio passthrough. Before we get to the front end of this we have to understand the infrastructure.
4 of HP Prolient N54 Microservers all of which are setup in the same way
This means I never lose any data and the system is back up again straight away with time then available to replace the drive or server. The downside is of course that my 64TB of storage is only 32TB. I could actually fit 6TB drives to replace the 4TB drives but the cost would be huge - about £2,400 at the time of writing this! Spread across these servers I have the following services:
Front room
I also use PVR functionality within Kodi and I use MediaPortal for the backend. Well, actually I use 2 MediaPortal backends. One has 4 DVB-S2 tuners along with 3 DVB-T2 tuners and the other one has just 4 DVB-S2 tuners. To access both of these within Kodi, I have had to clone and rename the Media-Portal add-on to enable both to be used together. Kodi does a great job on merging both of these within the UI and it poses no problems at all. A will have to put some pictures of this setup on here once I sort out the right ones for each section. RE: Content is King - Spidernan - 2020-07-31 Just adding a couple of pictures. RE: Content is King - ontap - 2020-07-31 tremendous, what sort of electricity use ? RE: Content is King - Spidernan - 2020-07-31 (2020-07-31, 21:21)ontap Wrote: tremendous, what sort of electricity use ? Not actually sure but I think the HPs are quite good at idle, probably better than the Dells. |