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You have to root the fire tv to play movies off the usb port / thumb drive. The firetv is just fantastic as opposed to a heavier, more powerful (and power hungry) htpc. Great wife factor, gaming is below adequate though, but streaming from my n40L into foretv's plex or kodi is flawless...

In regards to what? The power supply side has a two prong single outlet to three outlet adapter. Plugged into this is an anker hub that had USB ports. In one port sits the hootoo router. The hootoo is powered by usb, so the anker could go away and I could just use a phone charger connector. On...

I leave for Florida on Monday, when I return I'll give a full detail on how this played out. I bought this: HooToo That has a usb dlna built in, runs off USB. The HooToo system is linux based. I am going to put a USB hub in the car. The mini router will run off this, and will have a USB thumb...

Thanks, and what I have found is that these are not explicitly listed as a feature for my cheap phones, so that answers that. My current plan will be to put my fire tv in the back and use a burner as the wifi hotspot. I can stick mount a usb drive. Will still consider a travel router, but...

And that is probably one of the most important aspects to consider. Htpc can access certain parts that Roku can't. For me, once I found that fire tv can run xbmc with addons, it was a no brainer. If you don't go seeking movie streams not available on the "white" part of the Internet, then you...

You can, you need to root the AFTV. I have a USB stick permanently mounted. It has a bunch of ROMS that I play on various emulators

If you have questions on the G8, Homeservershow has a good amount of data, there is also the N40L wiki that has some info on G8

http://watchtheworldburn.blogspot.com/2014/11/using-phones-as-diy-sonos.html Get a cheap android phone

My kids are 2.5 years and 1.5 years, they're too small to hold or control things. I'm intrigued by using a travel router that has USB built in, but then if I connect a burner to the HDMI port by USB -> HDMI, I would run into a battery problem on the burner phone. The phones don't have a...

Chromecast requires internet https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chromecast/XRktmNTk0QY

This is a bizarre situation that crosses multiple subforums. It's part home theater, part mobile computing, part smartphone, part small form factor. I have a bunch of wifi "burner" phones (phones that run android, and have no SIM card so that they function as an Android "iPod touch" in...

FWIW, here is my JBOD setup, although the Addonics card does have RAID features/options http://watchtheworldburn.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-diy-jbod.html

The best place to buy it is where you can get max credit card rewards. Amazon has the 5% cash back for chase right now. For some states they also avoid tax. The retail cost is $399 everywhere, so I doubt price matching or anything will help

I am seriously contemplating buying a gaming console for the first time in quite a while. My main attractions would be Madden, NBA, GTA V, and possibly some other FPS like Call of Duty. Eventually FIFA or NHL (if they can fix NHL). Although I won't likely play online for a while until I'm...

Update: I have the DIY JBOD working with the above components. The USB3.0 is connected to my mac mini. Over the next week I will configure my asus 520 router to accept smb. One issue I will have to deal with is disk spinning and idle. Ideally I would want pretty quick idling. I am not a...