5 Best Android media players in 2015 for less than $100

Androidmediaplayers | Smarthomebeginner

Since their humble and unassuming beginning in 2000 as media boxes that could stream music to your TV for a not-so-low price, Android media players have come a long way. Improvements in operating systems, hardware, and video output, have contributed them becoming great alternatives to Home Theater PCs. They are … read more

AtoMiC ToolKit – Automate your Media Center

Atomic Toolkit From Htpcbeginner.com

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

SPMC is a Custom XBMC or Kodi Alternative for Android

Spmc Semper Media Center Ft | Smarthomebeginner

Users of Kodi app which was formerly known XBMC has been raving about this media player application that acts as an entertainment hub. If you have not gotten a chance to download it from the official website, it is basically a software application that can work on Linux, OSX, Android … read more

Kodi MySQL setup for sharing media library

Kodi Mysql Setup - Share Kodi Library

Kodi MySQL setup allows you to share your media library, its meta data, and watched status, with other Kodi / XBMC boxes in your network. This allows you to pause on one device and continue on another. Kodi device includes any device that runs a media center OS with Kodi, … read more

A budget HTPC-NAS Combo with an old PC and OpenELEC

Openelec Htpc Combo | Smarthomebeginner

I have some kind of Kodi client in my living room, and also in every bedroom of my house, mostly running with OpenELEC. My kids have been enjoying this wonderful service in their own rooms all streaming nicely from my Amahi Home Server. One of my kids recently decided to … read more

5 Most common NAS or Home Server uses

Best Home Server Uses

Let us look at some of the most common network attached storage server or home server uses for the sake of people wondering why have a home server? Recently, we described what is HTPC and what it is used for? We also presented an energy efficient HTPC Home Server combo … read more

Amahi Home Server: an easy to use Home Server solution?

Amahilogo | Smarthomebeginner

I’ve been trying various Home Server and HTPC solutions for some time now and in this post I will review Amahi Home Server. Originally I had an all-in-one HTPC NAS combo machine connected to my TV, running Windows. When I discovered the awesomeness of Kodi (previously XBMC) a couple of … read more

Raspberry Pi 2 with quad-core CPU and 1GB RAM for $35

Raspberry Pi Ii

Let’s start the party and burn the couches, the all new Raspberry Pi 2 is now on sale for $35. Three years after the Raspberry Pi model B was launched in 2012, the Raspberry Pi foundation announced today that the release of highly anticipated next version of the credit card … read more