icedragonslair Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 I am wondering if anyone has ever tried to connect a WDTV Live to an unraid box via usb to use the server like an ext hard drive with just this one device. I searched and never found a good answer for this Link to comment
ashman70 Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Not really sure why you want to do this when you can plug your WDTV Live into your network and point it to a share where your media resides? Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Not really sure why you want to do this when you can plug your WDTV Live into your network and point it to a share where your media resides? If you are going to do this, use SMB/SAMBA--- not NFS. SAMBA and NFS (in this day and age) have almost identical throughput numbers and SAMBA has fewer setup and operational problems. Link to comment
icedragonslair Posted February 21, 2016 Author Share Posted February 21, 2016 The reason i am trying this is that using the network is clunky when it comes to just setting the movie playlist or auto-replay. The WDTV Live will not play a second movie on the network, but it will on an external drive via usb. I am using a 4TB external at this time because of this, when I would much rather have full access to my server collection. I am already using Samba on the server so i am going to give it a shot and hope it works, I will post back after. Link to comment
METDeath Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 Have you considered migrating to another device instead of the WD TV? Either Plex or Kodi as an app on low power device (Roku/Raspberry Pi/Nexus Player/etc)? Link to comment
icedragonslair Posted February 22, 2016 Author Share Posted February 22, 2016 Have you considered migrating to another device instead of the WD TV? Either Plex or Kodi as an app on low power device (Roku/Raspberry Pi/Nexus Player/etc)? Yes I did, and I use Kodi for my HT and Plex on the go (I have a Plex Pass). However, trying just to make then replay a single video repeatedly or even dealing with video playlists with either of them is ridiculously time consuming. And I have not found another device that does what the WD Live does without requiring DLNA, if there is one that allows continuous replay off the unraid server please let me know, beside if this works it won't tax my BW Link to comment
ashman70 Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I used the first generation WDTV, before they had the model with a network port, then I upgraded and then I started using the Boxee Box when it came out, but the interface on the Boxee was sloooowwww. Finally I found out about Kodi and running it on an Asus Chromebox, best thing I ever did. I have a substantially large media collection and the Chromebox has no problems playing any of it. I would suggest you look into running Kodi on a Chromebox, its very simple and works great. Link to comment
icedragonslair Posted February 24, 2016 Author Share Posted February 24, 2016 I guess my point would be I am ever so happy to do this without the network, to enable me to save bandwidth, I did try to direct link a USB cable and that does not seem to work any other thoughts on this? Link to comment
trurl Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Both of these are expecting to be the host for any USB device you connect to it. unRAID is a NAS (Network Attached Storage), not an external USB drive. Link to comment
icedragonslair Posted February 26, 2016 Author Share Posted February 26, 2016 Both of these are expecting to be the host for any USB device you connect to it. unRAID is a NAS (Network Attached Storage), not an external USB drive. Thank you, I found that out, but is there any way to make this work, or even any devices (that you know of) that will connect directly via USB to the server? Or am I just better off transferring smaller files to the 4TB external I have and trudge along with that for now Link to comment
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