Is there a way to turn off incremental search? Either Web UI or apps: search seems to send a search instruction to server for every new letter added to the search box. I’ld much rather type a few letters (I usually sort of know what I’m looking for) and then click send or whatever to fetch results only for that. Would improve performance a lot for me
In case you’re doubting about doing it: do it. It’s fine.
But don’t make the mistakes I made :')
In fact, I bought a new SD card. 32 GB costs a ridiculous 7 €. It’s worth not taking the risk with some old one that’s possibly been flashed many times before. I’m quite sure some blocks on the one i was using previous were corrupted.
don’t use raspbian, osmc, debian, … Use DIETPI. Possibly raspbian lite. It’s the absolute minimal system you can get, with a focus on home-servering whatever you want on a rpi. This is the way. It’s disabling sending power to whatever is on there that you’ll never be using anyhow. Including the option to fully disable local hdmi output, absolutely no local audio-out support, etc. Squeezing all these little ones for sure pays off on a rpi 3 or older.
video streaming works fine! Better than local video playing used to be with the osmc/kodi install years ago on the exact same pi. Mkv HVEC H264 at 4.4 Mbps with AC3 sound 384 Kbps: plays smooth in browser. Sure, it’s not what you want if you’re doing the ultrahd 4K i don’t know what, but is good enough for me.
invest in the silly cooling accessories. It is worth it. Putting a tiny deskfan on the pi within a minute drops temperature 15-20 °C, while libraryscanning + videostreaming… Glue the cooling elements (1 € or even less) on the chips, buy the tiny fan or a case with fan built in. It’s another 6-12 € that is more than worth it.
stay away from HDD. They eat lots of energy. SSD is worth it. Even if HDD has external power source: they are slow as fuck, takes a while for disks to start spinning. They’re still usefull, as back-up. Another reason to go the DIETPI-way: the back-up disk / live disk shit is easy peasy built in there! No messing around searching how to set that up. Same with (auto-)mounting drives in general by the way.
The only downside so far: the Nordvpn-meshnet approach for remote access was a bit more annoying. It’s not integrated in the dietpi-vpn (or not yet). So you gotta install nordvpn seperately and make that work.
TL;DR: DIETPI !!!