Please note that this is more for my sake. To mount a hard drive in raspbian do the following: Make sure you have ntfs-3g installed by running: sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g Then mount the drive read/write with the following command: sudo mkdir /media/USBHDD sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1/ /media/USBHDD/ And it shout be mounted. /dev/sda1…

I’ve made some progress on the RPi Streaming Server. To replicate this you’ll need to do the following: 1. Install miniDLNA sudo apt-get install minidlna 2. Edit the config file to how you want it. Edit it using vim sudo vi /etc/minidlna.conf 3. Here’s what I’m working with, and it works. # This is the…

I have come to a very good place with my media server setup using my Raspberry Pi. The whole thing is accessible using the network, over a wide range of devices which is ideal for me and the other people living in my house. If you don’t need to see any of the installation, the…

It’s time to face facts, minidlna and XBMC won’t run at the same time in Raspbmc. The basic UPNP included in Raspbmc won’t work consistently and Raspmc and is not nearly as stable as minidlna. OpenELEC is fast enough, but does not have the expandability of a full linux OS. I need to restart this…

So although I haven’t written about it yet, right now I’ve gotten a Raspbmc Server up and running along with Minidlna. It works great for about an hour at a time and then it really bogs down. This seems to be caused by a combination of Raspbmc and the hard drive spinning down. My solution…