A problem from the past, Solution in the present
Its been few years since we discussed about this, the long due setup. Those long conversations didn't make sense back then, but now that the goal seemed possible, the convenience of such setup seem to me of great importance.
Back then, as a student who seldom studied, free time was in abundance to repeat manual tasks. Well these manual tasks end result was to get entertained. I remember being part of these conversation, where the experienced folks always choose the simplification of the process, rather than follow the same routine manual process again and again. Imagine the amount of time, that could be saved and well it can be well utilized for seemingly more importance things.
It always concerned me for my inability to come up with a solution or basic understanding of these features, well conversed and marketed, but never a truly utilized by consumer. Actually, the information flow ends there, on the other side, its just basic stuff, none of the fine aspects are really put to use. Again its the whole ecosystem, we need to understand. Once done, we need to invest in that ecosystem or at least build stuff to support that ecosystem. Which is common in every aspect of like, to get the complete benefit or bear the best yield.
My brother and i , used to have a favorite pastime of visiting tech store to understand about the features and clueless number of models starting from tvs to surround speakers. The idea of connected home entertainment was always there, hidden somewhere back in my mind. Those where the days, when hollywood movies are restricted to torrents and never released in theaters, the situation is the same yet, except for the emergence of OTT platforms and faster internet speeds, their reach is just a click away on the tv remote button. But again, economics come into play. How do we juggle around the content and across different OTT providers ? This question is answered through different tv manufacturers using a single UI to search, view content across the OTT platform, but again the user should be subscribed to them. So coming back to all the offline content we already have, but never streamed. The content which was hidden away for all those years. The content sourced from friends, torrents and much more ? Do we have a solution to stream all those content across devices in home ?
yes. but will that cost you much ? well that depends. If you are tech savy then it costs you as less as 3500 rs. Here comes raspberry pi, a chip based on Arm architecture and blah blah blah. Just small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, has hdmi, lan, wifi , bluetooth etc.
Add a flavour and linux or windows designed for the device and you are good to go. You can add a shared printer, install minidlna, NAS and FTP services, an all in one device, just to serve all your home needs. It enables wireless printing, Copy content to hard disk over the network, shared content across devices using DLNA. All this at the cost of a pi and few hours of hardship. The device should be connected within the same home network and this let you share things across without a hiccup.
Back then, as a student who seldom studied, free time was in abundance to repeat manual tasks. Well these manual tasks end result was to get entertained. I remember being part of these conversation, where the experienced folks always choose the simplification of the process, rather than follow the same routine manual process again and again. Imagine the amount of time, that could be saved and well it can be well utilized for seemingly more importance things.
It always concerned me for my inability to come up with a solution or basic understanding of these features, well conversed and marketed, but never a truly utilized by consumer. Actually, the information flow ends there, on the other side, its just basic stuff, none of the fine aspects are really put to use. Again its the whole ecosystem, we need to understand. Once done, we need to invest in that ecosystem or at least build stuff to support that ecosystem. Which is common in every aspect of like, to get the complete benefit or bear the best yield.
My brother and i , used to have a favorite pastime of visiting tech store to understand about the features and clueless number of models starting from tvs to surround speakers. The idea of connected home entertainment was always there, hidden somewhere back in my mind. Those where the days, when hollywood movies are restricted to torrents and never released in theaters, the situation is the same yet, except for the emergence of OTT platforms and faster internet speeds, their reach is just a click away on the tv remote button. But again, economics come into play. How do we juggle around the content and across different OTT providers ? This question is answered through different tv manufacturers using a single UI to search, view content across the OTT platform, but again the user should be subscribed to them. So coming back to all the offline content we already have, but never streamed. The content which was hidden away for all those years. The content sourced from friends, torrents and much more ? Do we have a solution to stream all those content across devices in home ?
yes. but will that cost you much ? well that depends. If you are tech savy then it costs you as less as 3500 rs. Here comes raspberry pi, a chip based on Arm architecture and blah blah blah. Just small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, has hdmi, lan, wifi , bluetooth etc.
Add a flavour and linux or windows designed for the device and you are good to go. You can add a shared printer, install minidlna, NAS and FTP services, an all in one device, just to serve all your home needs. It enables wireless printing, Copy content to hard disk over the network, shared content across devices using DLNA. All this at the cost of a pi and few hours of hardship. The device should be connected within the same home network and this let you share things across without a hiccup.
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