I used an older USB hard drive that has its own AC power supply and this negated the need for the powered hub! Even though they're a bit slower than more recent drives, mine will easily stream an HD movie. Most modern USB hard drives are powered through the USB port, hence the requirement for a powered USB hub.
Your Pi could be reliably interfaced to your network via Ethernet because the Pi has a built-in port for this purpose.
Know that your USB hard drive can be of any size (the bigger its capacity, the more stuff you're going to be able to store on it) and that you don't necessarily need a USB Wi-Fi dongle. What you'll need is pictured here (thanks again, The Server Guy!). I assume that you know how to get to the command prompt of the Raspian OS on your Pi, via the Terminal program that comes as part of the OS. Neither has worked very well, with the latter device often crashing and sometimes taking dozens of minutes just to load a few music files! Fortunately, my experience with using the Raspberry PI and MiniDLNA software has been almost perfect, with only the occasional hiccup - which I suspect is probably more the fault of the LG smart DVD player.Īs with The Server Guy's Instructable, I am not going to show you how to set up your Rasperry Pi and its operating system - just how to turn an already-functioning Pi into a lovely little local media server for your home network. Along the way I have attempted to host in on a Windows PC on my network and an NAS device (a D-Link DNS-320L). Unfortunately, finding the optimal media server has been a long quest for me. Such a thing should allow me to store movies and other video, music, and pictures in a place where they're accessible to the DVD player and the large TV screen and stereo speakers that are attached to it. I have a little home network that connects computers - both desktop and mobile - that my wife and I regularly use, as well as an LG blu-ray DVD player that is "smart" and can function with a DNLA media server, located elsewhere on the network. In doing so, I have blatantly stolen all of his images, for which I give him full credit! So, I thought I'd make my first Instructable as an update to his. Unfortunately, there were a few frustrating "holes" in his description that I had to fill myself through lots of research and trial and error. First off, many thanks to The Server Guy, who created the original Instructable on this subject.
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