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My PC just died on me. I'm looking for a cheap and green replacement and thought of the RPi. Has anyone tried using the RPi as UMS server? What are your experiences?

My setup would basically be:

RPi - UMS Server
- SMB Server
- Torrent box

Renderers:

- Samsung Smart TVs
- Android Devices
- Ipads


Is this possible? Will this setup work?

Thanks!

-death by bacon

Rpi works great as a renderer (i.e. running xbmc as a renderer connecting to UMS on a pc) but lacks the horsepower for real-time transcoding so it's not a good candidate for hosting UMS (plus you would need ffmpeg, etc. compiled for the rpi).

PS the search box is your friend [raspberry] .

Yes running UMS on a rasp would simply not work. Running any kind of Java program is a pain on the rasp. I've tried...

Thank you very much for the replies. So I guess Pi is out of the picture. I'm looking for something that can run UMS and a SMB server 24/7, can be headless, and uses very little electricity like the Pi.

death by bacon wrote:Thank you very much for the replies. So I guess Pi is out of the picture. I'm looking for something that can run UMS and a SMB server 24/7, can be headless, and uses very little electricity like the Pi.

Did you checked miniDLNA? http://bbrks.me/rpi-minidlna-media-server/

if you ever have to transcode anything.. thats where Cheap fails at being a UMS Server.