I have seen several attempts at trying to get rasplex on a Banana Pi over the past few years but I have yet to see a complete and working setup. Has anyone been able to accomplish this? The Banana Pi has a built in sata port. It should make having a portable “pi” so much easier.
There is no point in a built in SATA port, Rasplex is a client/server application, it does not need a hard drive and is not intended to be portable, see rasplex.com.
I am trying to build this banana pi as a permanent addition to the media in my truck. I already have wifi in the truck and the kids can stream their movies while we are on the road only where there is mobile service. I would like for them to be able to stream “locally” within the my truck instead of us depending on that mobile signal. My headunit has HDMI input so tying in a Pi with local storage would be pretty awesome to have.
This won’t work, as I said Rasplex cannot run without a server, it will not play media from an attached hard drive. If you want a truly mobile solution have a look at this topic http://forums.plex.tv/discussion/173894/raspberry-pi-pms-server-wireless-router-and-access-point you can install PMS on the Banana Pi using this guide, it will serve content to tablets or phones or Rasplex running on a second Raspberry Pi.
Just skip the installation of hostapd if you already have a wireless router/access point.
Regards
funkytechmonkey,
How many devices would be in use at once in the truck? If they all have a tablet watching something different, then a local server is probably best. If it’s a single screen, maybe something like OpenElec would be a better choice with it’s ability to play local media.
