Of course, you don’t necessarily need a Raspberry Pi to set up a home media server. I’m no expect at building PCs, but I had my first media server up and running on a Raspberry Pi in only a few hours. I then tossed some old MP3s and home video files on the memory stick, and before I knew it, my unused Raspberry Pi had turned into a media server. Mounting an 8GB USB thumb drive (I decided to start small until I knew what I was doing) on the Pi turned out to be a little trickier, although I even had that licked after another 45 minutes or so. It's still a possibility though.There are plenty of online tutorials on how to install Plex Media Server on a Raspberry Pi, and within an hour or so I had Plex up and running.

This works better, but still has some issues, not to mention that it makes you dependent on the mobile device for things to work.

It is possible to use BubbleUPnP on a mobile device as a control point instead, so that browsing and playback control is done on the mobile device but the actual playback is on the TV. This is possible either from UMS' GUI or from UMS' web interface, but the implementation isn't very good and looks like whoever made it got bored when 'half finished' in my opinion. Since Chromecast has no UI for browsing or playback control, it requires that you use UMS to 'control playback'. If not, forget about MX Player.Ĭhromecast functionality exists in UMS (I think it is off by default and must be enabled), but it's quite buggy. A quick online search doesn't provide any information about installing it on Android TV, so I don't know if it's possible to do 'manually' or not. MX Player alone won't do, BubbleUPnP is essential in that 'combo'.

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