2016-01-02, 18:36
I have to say this is an exciting thought and with the future of the way devices are getting smaller and smaller it could make centralization easier in homes. I think the benefit would be to build infrastructure in your home and centralize the music, video, and even TV services in a power device and then allow smaller nodes in the bedrooms or viewing rooms pulling data from the central source.
I am doing this with my TV services today with HDHomeRun Prime(s) and PVR.MythTV on my NAS and have been able to remove the cost of a monthly cable box for each room in the house and replace it with a simple RPI2 device that pays for itself in 4 months over having a cable box in each room.
I've been able to achieve this partially with KODI with centralized MySQL and SMB on the same NAS running MythTV services but I still have to have some device up and running to handle the library updates, cleaning, and extra library duties.
Also adding on the excitement of docker into the mix I am able to have greater library management with Dockerized SickRage, CouchPotato, Plex (Mobile watching outside of the home on travel), and hopefully in the future Kodi so I can just move this stuff around in my environment with ease.
I just look forward to what the future brings!
I am doing this with my TV services today with HDHomeRun Prime(s) and PVR.MythTV on my NAS and have been able to remove the cost of a monthly cable box for each room in the house and replace it with a simple RPI2 device that pays for itself in 4 months over having a cable box in each room.
I've been able to achieve this partially with KODI with centralized MySQL and SMB on the same NAS running MythTV services but I still have to have some device up and running to handle the library updates, cleaning, and extra library duties.
Also adding on the excitement of docker into the mix I am able to have greater library management with Dockerized SickRage, CouchPotato, Plex (Mobile watching outside of the home on travel), and hopefully in the future Kodi so I can just move this stuff around in my environment with ease.
I just look forward to what the future brings!