I have half a dozen RPis in my home running Rasplex, and increasing. I’m by no means an expert user, though I have been using it for some time, and even now I’m still finding reason to tweak and tune certain settings. It’s somewhat of a pain however every time I find one I want to change to have to go around each device and change the same setting on all of them to keep them uniform.
My question is this. Is there any way to centrally manage or configure them? Can I point them at a config file somewhere on my network and have them all draw their configurations from there in some way? I’d be grateful for any thoughts people might have on the easiest way of doing this!
You could have a config folder be just a mount point on a server and load everything from there. The only problem you could have is if the config are read before the drive its mounted.
Another better approach its to create a bash script and a cronjob to look for the config files periodically on the server and replace the local ones. You will just have to restart the server to see all changes.
You might want to look into Chef, seems like a perfect use case for it. As a disclaimer, I have not used it much, but it’s intended purpose is to keep configurations in sync from a central location. A similar tool is Puppet.
@Quandru said:
My question is this. Is there any way to centrally manage or configure them? Can I point them at a config file somewhere on my network and have them all draw their configurations from there in some way? I’d be grateful for any thoughts people might have on the easiest way of doing this!
What exactly are you attempting to configure? Can you give some examples?
