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Does anyone know how to power on a HP Microserver with a Harmony remote?

I have a HP running Win 8.1 with a Flirc USB IR to use with Plex Home Theatre. I dont always have this on as I'm not home all the time so when I do want to watch something I just want to use the remote, press power and have it all boot up to watch.
I cant seem to find much on how to do this with the Harmony touch software with Flirc? any ideas?
I guess it is just a command I need to enter to get it work?

Thanks
 
I use mine for;

Remote Storage
VM Labs
Backups

The Gen8 is a test lab for SCCM2012.
 
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I've got Plex running on mine as it's main duty however it's one of the main wired connections in the house so all torrents and big downloads are directed through it. Also running XAMPP so FTP, MySQL etc all running.
 
Main use for mine is Plex server. And I use it for VPN and downloading torrents. I have the web gui thing on uTorrent set up so I can access it from anywhere and paste in a magnet link.

Also used for file storage and backups.
 
CouchPotato
Sickbeard
Deluge (Torrents)
MYSQL for XBMC shared DB
Plex
Virtual box
Rsync backup of important to data to my dedicated server.

It also hosted my email until I moved that to the above mentioned Dedicated server.
 
Cpukid said:
Just bought a HP Microserver G7 N54L with 60Gb SSD, also got a 4tb My cloud and a 4TB internal HD, any suggestions on what I can do with it, I intend to install plex server but what else do ppl use there's for?
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Things I use mine for:

Download box
Web server
Email server (SBS)
Terminal Server
Host other various VM's for testing, near enough one of every version of windows. (not on at the same time)
Teamspeak server
Media server

Cheers,

G
 
Domain Controller
Cent OS with Plex Media Server
Arch Linux with Apache, PHP and Murmur installed
Remote Desktop Gateway
Windows 7 client that I use to access sites I can't at work or to generally hide my browsing
Any other test VM like Windows 10.
 
Okay, so it took the 6Tb drive happily enough, but I'm now having massive issues with FreeNAS. I've spent two whole evenings trying to get it to work, with no luck. In Network I can see the server (called FreeNAS), and one directory inside "homes" - curiously, I've not made any such directory, and FreeNAS describes the directory as follows:
mnt>Default>Steve
I can never see Steve, and I can't mount anything (Steve, or homes) as a network drive. I can't access any, despite wasting hours messing around with user profiles and guest profiles, and I've double checked that CIFS was turned on a dozen times.

Pulling my hair out now. Has anyone else had similar troubles using FreeNAS with Windows 7?
 
OS question.

I have the original N36 running Server 2008 R2. It has a 6450 graphics card and 8GB RAM and I have been running Plex server and Plex Media Centre on it to playback via HDMI. It runs fine for 720p stuff. 1080p stuff stutters every now and then and Youtube via the browser is choppy and CPU intensive.

I have a new N54 with the same amount of RAM and the same GPU as well that I will now make the the Plex server and client and was wondering if anyone else runs Plex server on Windows and could advise on OS?

I loaded the Server 2012 trial on it and I didn't really like the interface. I could stick to 2008 R2 or maybe try Windows 7? Would there be a performance benefit with either?


rp2000
 
Need some advice :)

My N54L turned up today, 2x3TB drive with it.

My current setup is a HTPC with 2x2TB drives running Win8.1/XBMC/SABnzbd/SB/CP and a WDLTV in the bedroom which streams from the HTPC.

I want to move 2x2TB drives/SABnzbd/SB/CP to the N54L store the XBMC library (MySQL) on there. Is it best to go with Debian on the N54 and put KODIBuntu on the HTPC (will the WDLTV be able to stream from Debian?) or do I keep Win8.1 on the HTPC and put WHS11 on the N54?
 
NeverWinter said:
Need some advice :)

My N54L turned up today, 2x3TB drive with it.

My current setup is a HTPC with 2x2TB drives running Win8.1/XBMC/SABnzbd/SB/CP and a WDLTV in the bedroom which streams from the HTPC.

I want to move 2x2TB drives/SABnzbd/SB/CP to the N54L store the XBMC library (MySQL) on there. Is it best to go with Debian on the N54 and put KODIBuntu on the HTPC (will the WDLTV be able to stream from Debian?) or do I keep Win8.1 on the HTPC and put WHS11 on the N54?
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What about OpenELEC on HTPC?

It's up to you which server OS you want to go with I have tried a few but in the end stuck with WHS11 it just has everything I need and is simple to use.

Do not forget to flash the hacked bios to unlock few extras.

I wouldn't bother using Sickbeard there is alternatives that are better now (Sickrage, Sonarr)
 
edGfaCTor said:
What about OpenELEC on HTPC?

It's up to you which server OS you want to go with I have tried a few but in the end stuck with WHS11 it just has everything I need and is simple to use.

Do not forget to flash the hacked bios to unlock few extras.

I wouldn't bother using Sickbeard there is alternatives that are better now (Sickrage, Sonarr)
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Yeah, what am I looking for in regards to finding that BIOS?

I had no idea there were SickBeard alternatives, what makes them better?
 
NeverWinter said:
Yeah, what am I looking for in regards to finding that BIOS?

I had no idea there were SickBeard alternatives, what makes them better?
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I've been using SickRage for a while, the main benefits for me are better torrent support and it unpacks multipart rars as well which was getting annoying doing manually
 
Bah, I might have to invest in the iLO card for one of these, rebooted one of mine remotely as its at my parents, only to find it hasnt come back up correctly and is stuck on loading xpenology :(

Any decent deals for one anywhere?
 
Had a Gen8 G1610T arrive today, waiting for ilo4 advanced key to arrive and 16GB of RAM, £313 for these so far.

Todo: 9.5mm SSD adaptor, HP bracket, sata to odd power/sata cable.
 
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