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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...

I'm going through old parts and the like. I was going to create a DAS by using old SATA drives, an old PC case, and then connecting the drives to this port multiplier card, connect them via esata to my microserver (or usb to mac mini), and use this to turn on the drives I have an old ASUS...

I've been wanting some of those as either a simple htpc (stream content to the WYSE from server), basically a Roku OR, to have the case to build an ITX system in it. The problem is probably with the heatsink/fan if I use anything heavy. Thoughts?

I have a microserver at home that is largely jbod and htpc using windows server 2008 r2 enterprise. It works well. With my limited use, and even if I set it up to stream or be accessed across the net, does 2012 really offer anything?

I was going to type a how-to on the wiki because I did this last month. First update bios Then install OS Then use the nexus double twin with these cables Link Link The double twin will fit, you have to express the microserver sides outward to get it to drop in from the top. I had already...

Still waiting for my 2.5" HD to show up in the mail to install Win 2k8 onto it and run from USB. In the meantime, I started a table on the Wikia that is an attempt to continue the OC Google doc of everyone's configurations. Wikia has a crappy built-in table ability, and the page doesn't really...

My latest bump to this thread is about my latest attempt: I have re-wired the backplane molex cables to go down the left (above the cable tunnel) and the through the right tunnel cable tunnel. I plan on putting a 2.5" HD in an ext USB enclosure, place that under the ODD and run it to the...

Check the wikia, someone posted a link to a forum where the guy was setting 3.5s all over the place

And now it begins... Has anyone tried 2x8 non ecc? Did that post? The dilemma there is then: 2x4 ecc for a bit less than 2x8 non ecc... Size vs security. Insert your own euphemism joke. But 2x8 ecc... That is a lot of money, but opens up wild zfs configs since people have now fit 4 x3.5"...

Unfortunately it's about a year late to be started. Before every mod board and tech board generated 100+ posts each, someone should have started a wiki. I'm worried that it's too late to get some of the more hard-core tech info into an organized document. So, anyone who can add, contribute...

I set up a wikia for the n40l, but can use info on n36l as well. Please add, contribute, rewrite: Http://n40l.wikia.com