Hi:
I’m new to plex, and have been reading about it, and am going to start building a plex infastructure. I’ve been a MythTV user for over 12 years now (started in the early days), and am now evolving!
My use case is that my TV antenna is located about 20 miles away due to location suitable to pick up the signal. I can set up a plex server there, and was planning on using HD HomeRun tuner (I own a first generation ATSC tuner; if it is sufficiently worthwhile, I can buy an Extend to replace it - has h.264 encoding).
At my home, I have a HDD with archived video, my audio collection, and the like. I generally use a DreamPlug (think Raspberry Pi) to serve that content as a NAS (as well as random other home server tasks).
My home currently has a 8x1Mbps internet connection (rural – we count it a blessing we were able to get this and not be forced to satellite like most of our friends!). My TV Antenna site has over 700Mbps symmetric, so outbound bandwidth is not an issue; the Plex server will be running on a virtualization system with 3x Dell R610 Xeon servers (plenty of CPU available).
So, some questions:
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Does plex clients (thinking FireStick, Android, possibly Visio SmartTV, and occasionally Linux Desktop/web) automatically deal with multiple servers, showing all available content on both servers?
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Will the remote PMS deal well with going over the internet to get to my house, including the limited bandwidth? My goal with this system is to watch OTA TV.
I do know I will need a Plex Pass. I don’t expect more than 2 concurrent client sessions to any server, most time it will be only one.
Thanks for your help and insights! I am a linux SysAdmin, and shouldn’t have issues with configuration/operation, as long as I can get docs to know what is needed.
-Jim
