“NAS” is just an acronym for “Network Attached Storage”. Companies have capitalized on that and will happily sell you a “do everything box”…Until you realize that it’s closed-source, overpriced, and underpowered garbage that will go EOL after a couple years, and might even lock you out of using non-approved drives coughSynologycough

A NAS is literally any computer that is setup to host storage that’s accessible over a network. That’s it. Don’t get suckered into overpriced underpowered crap. Dollar for dollar, literally any PC made in the last decade has more horsepower than a brand new “dedicated NAS”. Hell, a Pentium G4560T (i.e. 6th/7th gen Intel) will run OMV or TrueNAS or whatever without a hitch. Stuff an old ATX case with hard drives, load OMV or TrueNAS or something, and go to town.

As someone who daily drives the Pinebuds… Me too. 😅

I’m switching to Jellyfin myself.

To stream remotely from your own server?

If I chose to use Plex’s plex.tv services to expose my server to the internet, that’s one thing. But I have my Plex server exposed through my own infrastructure (NPM + Let’s Encrypt), so fuck that shit.

And this is why I’m setting up Jellyfin. I paid for a lifetime Plex pass a while ago, and I would have been happy to toss them some more money if they had just stuck to the core service (like Nabu Casa/Home Assistant - absolutely worth $7/mo), but nooooooooooooooo Plex decided to spin up their own streaming servers and go down that path instead.

I smell an IPO coming soon.

Sure!

My Zigbee coordinator is just the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1, the plugs are these “EightTree” brand units (zigbee model, not wifi), and most of my lights are these ThirdReality units. I’ve also got a handful of ThirdReality soil sensors for my wife’s plants.

The plugs and lights double as repeaters, which is nice.