Direct MP3 Download: MiniPC Show #89 – Bunch of Emails, oDroid N2 and More Intel Stuff
Door,
I’m a long time listener and a long time Plex user. It’s an awesome product, as you know.
Right now I have a Lenovo ThinkServer in the basement that’s my Plex server. I’ve moved all my content to a NAS and am looking at what smaller energy footprint I can use for it.
I seem to recall you mentioning that there’s now some single board computers that can keep up with the demand of serving up video.
Can you discus some of the single board computers that can handle Plex
Thanks
Greg
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Richard has mentioned a couple of times the data center in a drawer. Around my house, I have several single board computers, a Raspberry Pi model A+, B+, a couple model 2B and a Beagle Bone. I don't have time to play around with them anymore. So any suggestions on what I can do with these SBC's? I have 1 as my Unifi Controller, 1 as a Plex client for the family room (exercise room) TV, I had one that had PiHole on it as well, but I've taken that one off. Oh yeah, I have 1 that I'm trying to make into a weather station machine. But I have several that I'd like to put in work. I'm looking for some suggestions as to what to use the others for. I do like the idea of having an enterprise network (but tiny) in the house.
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- Use object-detection to only alert for people and not background cars, lights or animals. Or to only alert for when the dog wants to go in or out.
- Use facial recognition to trigger certain user actions on SmartHome.
- Use voice recognition to trigger actions without Amazon/Google listening.
- Nature lovers can get alerts or take pictures when their favorite animal/bird is detected and not another raccoon/robin. http://naturebytes.org/
- There are open source car computers and dash-cams. Adding AI to this could help with collision avoidance, depth detection, etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/crankshaft/
- The Intel Realsense T265 is a $200 stereo depth camera using an internal Movidius for calculations. DIY hobbyists will soon be building similar things. https://www.intelrealsense.com/tracking-camera-t265/.
- Most colleges and over 60% of high schools have robotics teams that need powerful mini computers for vision processing, navigation (SLAM), depth sensing, etc. I expect the Jetson Nano to be heavily used for this. https://www.firstinspires.org/
- There are small robotic RC car kits and competitions such as http://www.donkeycar.com/
- Hobby farmers can monitor for plant health and rodents: https://farm.bot/
- Drones (quad-copters) are using mobile AI for navigation, identification, inspection, mapping, etc. https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/drones-ai-companies
- Small mobile robots need neural-networks to drive, and there is getting to be a lot of different models. https://www.fastcompany.com/90291820/8-robots-racing-to-win-the-delivery-wars
Sorry for the long email. Keep up the good work.
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ODROID-N2
If you’d like to receive an email when the ODROID-N2 are open for ordering and when they are in stock, click here. The ODROID-N2 is a new generation single board computer that is more powerful, more stable, and faster performing than the N1. The main CPU of the N2 is based on big.
https://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-n2
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ODROID-N2
CPU performance Dhrystone-2, Double-Precision Whetstone, Sysbench and Memory bandwidth benchmark results show the N2 system performance comes out ahead of other popular ARM SBCs.
https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=33781
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ODROID-N2 GPU Drivers, Linux 5.0, and Impressive glmarks-es2 Score
ODROID-N2 was announced last February for $63 (2GB RAM), and $79 (4GB RAM), but Hardkernel was not quite ready to take orders at the time. One of the good news is that the 4GB RAM is now available for pre-order with shipping scheduled to start on April 3.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/03/27/odroid-n2-gpu-drivers-linux-5-0-and-impressive-glmarks-es2-score/
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READ ME FIRST: About Server ARMv7 and ARMv8 Ubuntu / Debian
Plex supports Debian and Ubuntu based ARMv7 (armhf) and ARMv8 (arm64) distributions. Video transcoding is not recommended at all on ARMv7 and ARMv8 devices. For the best experience, always aim for Direct Play support on all of your devices.
https://forums.plex.tv/t/read-me-first-about-server-armv7-and-armv8-ubuntu-debian/226567
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Kickball/awesome-selfhosted
Selfhosting is the process of locally hosting and managing applications instead of renting from SaaS providers. This is a list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Non-Free software is listed on the Non-Free page.
https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted
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Is Raspberry Pi Ready for Industry?
There’s been quite a bit of discussion around the use of Raspberry Pi in industry over the past few years, with most of it highlighting how Raspberry Pi is a great tool for engineering experimentation, but not so much for real world industrial use.
https://www.automationworld.com/raspberry-pi-ready-industry
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Intel Launches WiFi 6 AX200 M.2 Wireless Card
WiFi 6 (aka 802.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/04/03/intel-ax200-wifi-6-m2-card/
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Hacker Public Radio ~ The Technology Community Podcast Network
Hosted by minnix on 2019-03-29 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.Tags: nextcloud,single board computers,home server,sbc,arm.Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format. | Comments (0)
http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=2780
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This $10 PCB lets you build a handheld PC with a Raspberry Pi Zero W (plus a display)
The Raspberry Pi Zero is a is a tiny, low-power single-board computer that sells for $5 (or $10 if you want a Pi Zero W with WiFi and Bluetooth).
https://liliputing.com/2019/03/this-10-pcb-lets-you-build-a-handheld-pc-with-a-raspberry-pi-zero-w-plus-a-display.html
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CEPH
https://github.com/AkashSolankle/Ceph-On-Raspberry-Pi
