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I don’t want to derail this Yarn, so please fork this when you see it 😅 – Speaking of FM Transmitters and what not, I actually have a new project I’d like to build with two requirements:

  • Some kind of small compute device that can be powered either via USB or 12V DC Socket
  • A built-in FM transmitter so I can stream a subset of our own music (we’d copy form our NAS initially).
  • A way to stream Plex into the HDMI input of a small portable TV screen (also powered by 12DC)

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I’ll fork this myself 😅 – So far I know of Western Digital My Passport Wireless Pro | Plex Support which will let me take a portable “Plex Server” on the move with me and copy a subset of our media (TV Shows, Movies, Music) on the portable drive which runs a Plex Server and builtin WIFI Hotspot.

Problem is, this is only good for connecting say iPad(s) or iPhone(s) to the hotspot and using the Plex App. I can see no way to then stream something to a portable 12DC powered TV that basically only has HDMI input (and some older shit)…

I need something to connect to a wifi hotspot, stream a plex stream and re-stream that to a HDMI input source 🤔

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@prologic@twtxt.net Why not just have a Raspberry Pi or something with an external hard drive holding all your Linux ISOs, and connect that directly to the display? Then, it could run Kodi or Jellyfin on that display. It should also be able to start up a Wi-Fi network for streaming on other devices.

Plex might be able to do this, but I’m not sure how much they insist on handling authentication on their servers.

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@mckinley@twtxt.net Yeah that would work too as an alternative. More build work though… Also I already have Plex (paid for a lifetime license some years ago). I’d have to make sure (if I continued to use Plex on the move) that it didn’t require outside network access just to function of course (which would be silly) 😅 – Only other thing to solve (if I went down the RPi + something route) is audio/music streaming… Need a way to stream to essentially a set of speakers that seem to only have an FM receiver hooked up to them, but maybe there’s an audio jack somewhere hmmmm 🤔

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