Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 10:22 AM Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > <SNIP> >> I was wanting to have a NAS that also puts video on my TV. That way I >> can turn off my puter and still watch TV. It would be as much a media >> system as a NAS. I have a mobo, ram and I think I have a extra video >> card somewhere. I'd need a case, power supply and such. I'd also need >> a place to put all this which is going to be interesting. I'd want >> plenty of hard drive bays tho. I found a fractal 804 case that caught >> my eye. Can't recall all the details tho. >> >> Still, needs money and right now, I got to many other coals in the >> fire. Plus, I'm trying to figure out this crypttab thing. From what >> I've read, it is for opening encrypted drives during boot up which is >> not really what I want. I can boot and login into my KDE without >> anything encrypted being mounted. Kinda like this new setup really. >> >> I'll be so glad when fiber internet gets here. I think I'm going with >> the 500Mb/sec plan. Costs about the same as my current 1.5Mb/sec plan. >> lol >> >> Dale > I believe all of that can be done on TrueNAS, and most likely with > any of the prepackaged boxes like Synology, but I've not do it myself. > > Most modern flatscreens can access NAS servers and play video > and or music over the network so the NAS server itself > need not have a GPU. I did put a VGA in both of mine as building > them is easier, but it wasn't strictly necessary. TrueNAS can be > built on a headless machine if you know the IP address. > > As for FreeBSD, they have 'jails' which I think are more or less > chroot environments, so you can put whatever MythTV is called > these days in a jail and run it from there. People do that with > DNS, network monitors and all sorts of things. (Assuming > you have enough compute power.) > > No need to do any of this now. It's good that you're thinking > about solutions so that when the money comes along you'll > be ready. > > Cheers, > Mark > >
When I bought my current TV, I avoided the smart ones. At the time, it was new technology and people were talking about how buggy it was so I bought a regular TV. If I had to buy one today, I'd buy a smart one. They seem to work pretty well now. Nice and stable at least. Still, I check to make sure whatever I buy is based on Linux as its OS. One can usually check the manual and see the copyright notice in the last few pages. It mentions the kernel. If it mentions windoze, I move on. LQ is almost always Linux based. I'm at the point where I know I need to do this. It's just getting there. I even thought about putting the OS on a USB stick. After all, once booted, it won't access the stick very often. I could even load it into memory at boot up and it not even need the stick at all once booted. Like is done with some Gentoo install media. One of these days. Dale :-) :-) P. S. New drive seems to be working fine. Now to figure out what to do with old one. :-D
