We have these amazing little computers in our hands. What are some beneficial things we can do with them? Websites, apps, tinkering… anything you can think of or things you already do. I’m tired of doom scrolling.

  • PeteWheeler@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Highly recommend Jellyfin on your NAS. Sounds like that is what your looking for. Very straight forward and easy to implement compared to other self host options.

    Essentially, vid files located on your nas, and then any device on your wifi can stream the vids.

    If your looking for your own personal netflix, jellyfin is your answer.

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      1 day ago

      I considered Jellyfin many times and never looked too much into it, it is one of those thing I want to try. At the moment I’m comfortable enough with a plain old file browser and a samba share.

      What I tried many times unsuccessfully is to broadcast the same thing to all devices in the local network.

      My ultimate goal (or ultimate wish, I’m having troubles translating) would be to broadcast video in my network imitating regular TV. With a preprogrammed schedule of shows and movies, even better if at certain times it could pick something at random from a playlist or a folder. Yesterday I read that OBS might be able to do something like that.