Earlier this month we taught you how to install FlexGet on Ubuntu home server. FlexGet is a tool that allows you to download media automatically to your home server. Since it is a very lightweight tool, it will not push your system capabilities to the edge. A graphical interface, or … read more
When choosing a downloader that will helps us get our content safely from the cloud to our home server, there are certain parameters that have to be met. Versatility, and being lightweight on resources, would be very valuable features in such a software. These are the main features of FlexGet, … read more
After editing over 200 files, 3000 lines of code, and 150 hours of hard work I am happy to announce the release of AtoMiC ToolKit 2.0. Many have praised the AtoMiC ToolKit for how easy it makes managing apps such as CouchPotato, SickBeard, Torrent clients, and more. After the initial … read more
Couple of years back, I compared SickRage and SickBeard and concluded by saying that I will be moving to SickRage. Today, I feel differently and here is why. The two years before I moved to SickRage, I had little to no issues with SickBeard. SickRage offered more and so I … read more
You probably have heard about the new name taken by Media Browser this year, along with several modifications that gave way to what is now Emby. Despite of its long run prior to its name change, there is still much to be said about this interesting open software application. If you … read more
Perhaps you’ve been following our hardware reviews about amazing devices such as the Intel NUC or the Gigabyte Brix Pro, which are best used as home servers, where you can attach an external storage and just browse your media from a client device. Maybe you have a computer already, loaded up … read more
Don’t have an extra PC laying around, no problem, just run a Ubuntu home server on VirtualBox VM. I have been pumping out VirtualBox tutorials over the last two months. Some have asked me if VirtualBox is somehow related to HTPCs. This post will answer that question. This post is … read more
Have you ever run out of space on your media center? Of course. We all use Sickbeard, Sonarr, and/or Couchpotato. And if your at all like me you add 20 movies at a time until your run out of space. But what ever can I do? Its too expensive to … read more
We are glad to launch AtoMiC ToolKit, a set of bash scripts that will automate installation of home server, NAS, and HTPC related software on Ubuntu Linux (including 15.05 Vivid Vervet) and its variants. You may have used our All-in-one PVR script or our AtoMiC installation scripts for Transmission WebUI, … read more