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Hi there,

I’m thinking about what kind of opportunities there is for a portable media center you can have with you in the car, train or whatever.

I imagine that the media center would create its own WiFi, so that devices would be able to connect to it and access the media.

I know you could do something with a Raspberry Pi, but how could this work in practice? What would be an easy way to access the media from an iPad fx? What software could be used?

As a bonus, it would be pretty cool if the media center could connect to a hotel WiFi and then create a hotspot from that.

Edit: This would be used when on the move. So you would have the media with you on the media center.

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[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why would you need a travel router?

The rpi already can be set up to hotspot it's own wifi network.

For connecting to hotel wifi, a simple usb dongle is good enough, as discussed here: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=287485

In regards to VPN-ing into the media server at home - depending on where you travel, you might not have any internet or you might use up your mobile data volume.

[-] OmegaMan@lemmings.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Yeah you can use the rpi as the router too

[-] passepartout@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I used a raspberry pi 3 with RaspAP in this use case in my room at home for some time. Performance was not the best, but enough for my needs back then.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 day ago

Exactly and thank you for the link! 😁

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