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2014-08-09, 23:29
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I am very close to moving into my own place (apartment) and will finally have no roommates. I am wanting XBMC in my bedroom and living. I currently just have one xbmc box. I have a Panasonic plasma (bedroom) and an Epson 8350 (living room). I am wanting to move to a SFF box for both of these that hold just xbmc and have all the media served from something else. I was thinking Server2012. Has anyone done this and could guide me in what i should purchase. For the the two separate rooms I was thinking ill just get NUCS with a small msata drive. But for the server I was wondering what would be the best OS, is server 2012 the best or is there a better option? I would like the the main box to update the library and push out updates to the nucs (if possible)
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You have an xbmc machine already, you can still use that.
What you are wanting to set up is very common. I use Linux on my server, but windows can work too. More expensive and not a real server OS of course.
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Are you saying to use the current machine i have for the server parts, i could, i was just looking for all new, its an old AMD processor about 5 years now.
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A 5 year old amd is fine for a server, but newer will give you more power while using less electricity.
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I'm doing something similar. I'm hardware smart and software dumb so to say. I bought an Synology DS214 and am pretty darn happy with it. Currently using it with just one XBMC but a second will be coming shortly. There are several guides for getting mysql working to keep the library in sync with multiple systems.
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For what it's worth, my setup is as follows:
2 * Raspberry Pi (1 in the living room and 1 in the bedroom) both running Raspbmc (XBMX), both connected via WiFi
1* HP MicroServer G7 with 8TB of storage and 8gb RAM running Ubuntu 14.04
The server shares media via Samba and it also contains my shared MySQL library.
I haven't tracked the spend but thinking about it now, excluding the hard drives, the setup cost just over £200