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Its a miracle two replies in one day, my emails do arrive then, thanks Brad for reliably informing me of the replies. With so many emails from LUG its hard to see the wood through the trees. ;-) mr meowski I have a few networking drives and bits indoors for various reasons, the NAS you refer to is the Go-flex Seagate. Its possible to SSH in and tinker with the linux under the hood. All the apps were free and streaming is smooth. Thats why I never bothered with Plex. Regards Matt On 6 Apr 2014, at 20:56, bad apple wrote: > On 06/04/14 19:04, matt stevenson wrote: >> Hi >> >> Thought I'd chuck my 2 penneth into this as I have a linux media server (sort of) >> and macs / pc clients at home. >> I've never had a reply posting to this list so I'll be short as it appears my >> email evaporate after clicking send? >> >> I use a Hipserv distro of Linux on my network storage which is Seagate, and all >> works fine for DLNA. >> >> All the best with your search for a good media server. > > > Thanks for the 2p but I'm really specifically interested in Plex as > apparently it's the bees knees, but all I found was a horrid mess and a > push to signup for a cloud account to administer resources on my own LANs. > > Already fully sorted for an all singing all dancing media server setup > personally but would like to keep up with the supposed latest and > greatest offers for setting up other people in the new hyper-connected > age of smartphones and streaming media/personal clouds. > > Never heard of Hipserv before, at first glance it looks like it aims for > pretty much identical goals as Plex... complete with worryingly flashy > website inviting me to create an account and 'upgrade' (presumably to a > paid service of some kind... um, no thanks!). What is your "Seagate" > device, presumably not a bare hard drive? NAS of some kind? > > Regards > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq