(2013-01-07, 19:18)Martijn Wrote: Who the h*** is claiming that upnp won't be able to run on a nas.
1+1=2
And if you are so hogged up on saving energy throw out that power hungry unraid thing.
You can even use the r-pi as intermediate device and what does that only use on power.
Well, it won't run on my NAS. I've got two Thecus 4100+, which are obsolete, but, in my experience, have been absolutely rock solid. The only reason I'm considering replacing them is because I need more capacity. There is a Twonky Media Server plugin for it, which I *think* is UPnP, but the metadata it was presenting was so poor that I went back to NFS sharing, and a separate media player (with its own metadata). Unless you're going to write me a UPnP module, then, as Skank says, I'll need to be running a separate machine to host a good UPnP server.
Alternatively, I could throw away my existing storage systems, and replace them with a Power Hungry unraid machine, which also has the power to run the UPnP server itself. But that's an either/or: do I want a powerful central storage, or "barely sufficient" energy concious one? Telling people they're going to have to fork out for new *hardware* due to changing designs in XBMC isn't going to go down well, unless there are clearly end user advantages to doing so. And, I'm sorry, but "it's hard for the developers" isn't an end user advantage. Unless, of course, the removal of MySQL means that other features get more attention, which might be the case. But I honestly have no idea, because I don't know how much effort MySQL support takes. I should hope that it's barely more than SQLite, with the possible exception of the upgrade code.
And actually, yes, I do already have a Raspberry PI, which an always-on network controller (DHCP, DDNS, Postfix, and dovecot). So I'm fine, and can just put XBMC on that (as long as it's not going to clog up my existing configuration). But, even amongst the people who've got shared XBMC installations, I'd expect that those with the luxury of an "always on" server are in a minority.