On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 10:22 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> > > I was wanting to have a NAS that also puts video on my TV. That way I > can turn off my puter and still watch TV. It would be as much a media > system as a NAS. I have a mobo, ram and I think I have a extra video > card somewhere. I'd need a case, power supply and such. I'd also need > a place to put all this which is going to be interesting. I'd want > plenty of hard drive bays tho. I found a fractal 804 case that caught > my eye. Can't recall all the details tho. > > Still, needs money and right now, I got to many other coals in the > fire. Plus, I'm trying to figure out this crypttab thing. From what > I've read, it is for opening encrypted drives during boot up which is > not really what I want. I can boot and login into my KDE without > anything encrypted being mounted. Kinda like this new setup really. > > I'll be so glad when fiber internet gets here. I think I'm going with > the 500Mb/sec plan. Costs about the same as my current 1.5Mb/sec plan. > lol > > Dale
I believe all of that can be done on TrueNAS, and most likely with any of the prepackaged boxes like Synology, but I've not do it myself. Most modern flatscreens can access NAS servers and play video and or music over the network so the NAS server itself need not have a GPU. I did put a VGA in both of mine as building them is easier, but it wasn't strictly necessary. TrueNAS can be built on a headless machine if you know the IP address. As for FreeBSD, they have 'jails' which I think are more or less chroot environments, so you can put whatever MythTV is called these days in a jail and run it from there. People do that with DNS, network monitors and all sorts of things. (Assuming you have enough compute power.) No need to do any of this now. It's good that you're thinking about solutions so that when the money comes along you'll be ready. Cheers, Mark
