Oooh wow! Laser cut? That is crazy cool, would love to have access to a CNC or laser cutter!! I'll be making a video on building an arcade cabinet soon!
@@ToddTinkersWithTech Local maker space or hacker space are perfect for that. My plan is to wrap it in vinyl carbon fiber print. I guess I'll have to make a video at some point also.
Good suggestion, but no single slot 3050's available, afaik. RX 6400 seems to be the best option so far; trying to get a used one for a decent price currently...! Appreciate the comment! ✌️
@@ToddTinkersWithTech bro, chatgpt says that this hp t740 has maximum 75w power output on pcei x16 express slot while a website "parky tower/hp t740" say 35w, how can you install rx 6400 lp gpu (53w) on it, if i consider 35w is maximum wattage assigned to x16 slot, i think the system will failed to boot, buddy help me build ma traveling pc, I'm hp victus r5 5600h rtx 3050 laptop user want to built a movable pc
Sweet! Yeah TrueNas seems to be a really robust package, I went with OMV, but will give TrueNas a try on a spare machine soon! Thanks for the comment! ✌️
Nice project ideas. I used to have a little Lenovo mini PC that a friend gave me. I had never seen anything like it, up to that point. Once I realized I could just plug it into the big screen in the living room with an HDMI cord, it became the little media center in our apartment, and then again when we moved somewhere else. I loved it. Before everybody had streaming services, and before I heard of Miracast, that was the bomb!
Anyone know a good vpn to use while using the boctocera version of kodi? Preferably one that runs off a router to make a new network that’s linked or forwarded to the vpn address? Or if there’s a free one? Bc I’m not sure how to install apps on boctocera for vpns thank you
There is a Kodi add-on for adding VPN - service.vpn.manager - you can find it in the Zomboided repository. But hasn't been updated in a while. Not sure if there is another option within Kodi/Batocera...
I know your channel is new but this is the first video I came across. I have a bit of a fetish for finding ways to still use old hardware and have been re-building old PCs for a while and giving them to people who need them, even to the point of something so old that only FreeDOS would run on it but it could run an old spreadsheet well enough for a motorcycle mechanic to use to figure out that his dealership was short-changing him! Ditto the lower background music comment but your voice, speech pacing, and camera angles are really good, as well as your screen-capture inserts into your editing. Glad I stumbled across your channel and best of luck!
My vote is for Emby over Plex and Jellyfin. I had playback issues with both Plex and Jellyfin. Emby has been buttery smooth with anything I have thrown at it. I did buy Lifetime membership after the trial. Also, Jellyfin cant passthrough DTS-HD, as of right now. You can also use Kodi's front end with Emby since you have Kodi on everything.
Depends on the package - for Kodi, Plex, Jellyfin and RetroPi, yes - install a Linux distro, such as "Mint" and install on top. For Batocera and OpenMediaVault, it's best to start fresh from a "distro" ISO that you burn to a USB drive using BalenaEtcher - and it will install the OS and software, and might be easiest for non-tech types! Appreciate the comment! ✌️
As someone who manages in his day to day both TrueNAS & Home Assistant, RetroPi & Emby (Jellyfin but closed source...) this video is a perfect way to introduce my colleagues into the self-hosting world, thank you for this!
With the retro gaming section - I have a gaming laptop that dates back to 2015 (and can't run most modern games). I am curious if Batocera and/or Retropie can run on Windows. Being a young'un (22 | 2002), my mom introduced me to the SNES and played a lot with my siblings - such as the games: Tetris Attack (Panel de Pon for JP region), Super Punch-Out, and Super Metroid, etc.
@@Myszkia Cool! Old games can still be a blast to play! ✌️ Batocera requires it's own full install, although you could run it on a 2nd drive and choose to boot from it or windows. You can run CoinOps on Windows - do a search for that! ✌️
This was great! I had no idea about the Chrome script. I also re-deploy old systems to new purposes. I'm now very annoyed that I binned some that I thought were useless (Chromes) but I could have saved.
Open Media Vault is great to jump into and have much less headaches than TrueNAS imo With TrueNAS, it requires much more in depth knowledge and learning how to navigate it's system. But there's far more you can do w/ it too. (OMV def better for lower power devices) TrueNAS can also be installed as a baremetal OS, with an ability to deploy and manage virtual machines from it. TN even has a ton of addons like Plex and Jellyfin to serve your data too.
Plex and Jellyfin are more like server-side storage solutions that would serve data to Kodi So they're not really competition of each other But they work well together --- Jellyfin is more customizable than Plex but the free Plex works fine unless you want to use their pre-served shows (which I do not use personally) But I do have Plex servers holding my backups of video. Def worthwhile but you're def correct on needing more power on the Plex side.
@@ToddTinkersWithTech Yw -- Jellyfin is a great choice imo b/c of the artwork feature (and some other customizations I prefer). But Plex is a bit more polished. I think you'll be happy w/ Jellyfin tho (or you could technically run both -- they're mainly just services in Windows). It runs great w/ Kodi And keep up the great work 👍 I know ppl are looking for ideas on what to do w/ e-waste to repurpose.
Dang where you paying that much for 4GB RPi's? They're way cheaper than that. Unless you're getting a bundle which is not needed Still cool ideas I rather an OPi Zero for TV streams.
Personally, I repurposed an old Intel i3 PC a couple of years ago by installing several HDDs and use Truenas Scale (think its linux based) cause it allows me to use a RAID configuration for redundancy. Also, the system can run apps (containers) that you can configure very easily like for example Jellyfin (which I recommend you try) and I am very happy with everything so far. I mainly use it for streaming my movies and tv shows and as backup storage, it runs SMB natively so you can enable it with just a click. Honestly is farely easy to setup.
my definition of OLd is my fujitsu siemens Amilo A1640 with a single core AMD Sempron 3000+ that's i'm still trying to repurpose to something lol. not only that but it has a SIS m760 and only 1gig of ram
@@jamiegossett I'll have to look that up, that works be cool!! I think it might be dual slot though. Leaning towards an RX 6400 currently. Thanks for the suggestion! ✌️
Install a pci express card that hat two m.2 name slots for more storage a ND add an sata in the other m.2 with the one you took out for data and you would have 4 drives plus external drives via USB with four 7 port USB hubs each with a drive plugged in
Good review i was just looking at one of these , it be interesting to find out if it could do bifrocation is so add pcie dual nvme expansion card then you could add 2 extra nvm cards to this little neat system then have a lot more storage for whatever
Yeah, not sure if the PCIE slot supports bifurcation or not; I would think there is a good chance it does. Unfortunately I don't have anything to test that out with at the moment. I appreciate the comment! ✌️
@@ToddTinkersWithTech definitely try get your hands on that card if you can , anyways I may conduct a similar test with a slightly older and some what weaker model of this particular thin client the t730 I will let you know how it goes if I do it also forgive my occasional horrendous spelling error I usually do this stuff late at night and sometimes wasted , either way I'm excited to play this model I'm getting gotta be better than the chrome box im turning into either a windows 10 machine or Linux Machine but still an interesting experience I'm waiting on a larger SATA SSD card for it show up , should ordered more than one though
Ah yes, the famous Solid State Storage Technology Corporation. You can install their products in your computer made by Computer Technology Corporation, plugged into your Monitor Technology Corporation 1080p display 😅
Yeah that might be above my paygrade! I am more of an amateur tinkerer and learning as I go. Some folks really know the ins and outs of these platforms much better than I ever will! But I am happily using OMV on my T530! Appreciate the comment and suggestion! ✌️
Hey Todd, great video, I have a few, one sff that is running a minecraft server, and have played with Batocera, now converted to LaunchBox. I have done plex as well, but I find streaming an casting much easier now! A fun project was I got a touch screen AIO pc. Which now is in the kitchen, watch shows, play music, or turn on the PI in the back and play some emulation games!
