2014-07-01, 04:23
So it turns out the USB ports on my ISP-supplied router have been disabled at the firmware level, which makes my situation a little trickier than I initially envisioned.
While within the next year I will be buying a full-fledged Synology NAS to share all my media wirelessly to XBMC clients, right now I do not have a NAS. Instead, I have a large WD MyBook external USB storage drive. I want to be able to share the files on this drive to all other XBMC clients and laptops in the house. From what I've read, a Raspberry Pi would be able to handle this. I was wondering if the Amazon Fire TV has been sufficiently hacked as of yet to allow this. I will also be running XBMC on the Fire TV.
While within the next year I will be buying a full-fledged Synology NAS to share all my media wirelessly to XBMC clients, right now I do not have a NAS. Instead, I have a large WD MyBook external USB storage drive. I want to be able to share the files on this drive to all other XBMC clients and laptops in the house. From what I've read, a Raspberry Pi would be able to handle this. I was wondering if the Amazon Fire TV has been sufficiently hacked as of yet to allow this. I will also be running XBMC on the Fire TV.