re: Let me get this straight: after 4 years nest finally releases a new camera

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How do I get "my own server"? Is it as simple as putting together a barebones PC with a lot of storage and managing it from my home PC?

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depends on what you want. You don't even need a PC at all to set up a DVR for, say, a foscam webcam. All you need to do is buy a $50 2TB usb3 drive and plug it into your router and go to the settings where you say that up as a network storage location you can share across your wifi network.

Then in the foscam software open the video recording option, browse to that drive and hit save.

Eta all you're doing is saving the video stream coming from the camera to a hard drive. Not a difficult concept... What's more difficult is making sure you don't run out of room so you'll need to determine how much of that 24/7 HD stream you want to keep.

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I'm moving rural with Internet expected to be spotty, so I'd like to set up a server to hold all of our movies and music that I could then access with a Roku, Sonos, FireTv, etc. if the Internet was down. That makes sense, right?

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yep.

Part I
step 1: establish friendship with tech board person with an IP torrents invite.
step 2: install uTorrent and set it to a random port ID
step 3: download torrents
Step 4: IF NOT ON A PRIVATE TRACKER (see above) MOVE TORRENT IMMEDIATELY, DELETE torrent file when its dwonloaded to minimize internet provider serving you with a DMCA letter.

Part II
Step 1: create PLEX account and install Plex server utility on your PC
Step 2: point it to your torrents folder (create a master folder then a 'tv' and 'movies' folder and keep your torrents separate)
Step 3: Connect ROKU box to TV and open PLEX app and marvel at how your local TV shows & movies look just like netflix.

Congrats you now have your own 'mini netflix' you host and will still work if you pull the internet connection.


ENJOY

Its not much more difficult than that. You can also rip your own DVD/BDs but if you own the disk already, its easier to grab a copy online because they will have done it better.

Usenet is where most of this stuff comes from anyway. Usenet is a blast from the past for most people, but if you pay for a subscription you can download just about anything you want as fast as your internet connection can go.

I used to use giganews to download blurays. Once I get around to rolling a plex server, I'm probably going to re-up and get after it.