Hi people, this is my first post in this fantastic forum ^^ Nice to meet all the users So, i have an Xbox with XBMC installed (old version, i think 2006 release). I know that XBMC is compatible with a small group of NAS (first, the Linksys models...). All the NAS models in the list are very rare to find and expensive. Does anyone have a full working NAS (with SMB) that is not listed on the XBMC Wikia? I want to buy a simple and economic NAS with an additional usb port, in order to use a pendrive of 64 gb, instead of an HDD...
I was under the impression that XBMC is able to connect with any SMB shared folder, so it doesnt really matter which brand NAS your going to use, as long as it supports SMB (which almost every NAS supports).
AppleTVs are junk. Might be able to get some sort of controller input involved but an XBox is already about as powerful with access to multitudes of emulators and XBox games. Though if you pop the WiFi card out of the AppleTV you can put in a card to allow for h264 acceleration to do HD playback. Might as well jump that ship for a Raspberry Pi though. And yes, XBMC can connect to SMB shares.
The NAS devices he is talking about run XBMC locally (just the single device NAS+XBMC) The second generation AppleTV (JB) can stream 1080p no worries. RPi would be great - not as end user friendly though.
This. XBMC just wants SMB shares; as far as I know it couldn't care less what the shares are on. I used a thrown-together FreeNAS box with XBMC on my XBox for the longest time and it worked great.
Cheapest way I could come up with is an eeePC 1005ha with broken lcd and broken keyboard. I bought it from someone for 20$. Installed lubuntu on it, configured all my SMB shares (and couple of other things like BT client, webmin, etc). Plugged in a 2TB usb HDD and voila! Cheap NAS. I used a power meter and with the lcd screen and webcam removed the thing consumes an average of 10W (excluding USB HDD) which is a little more than a commercial NAS solution. This thing is great and everything can be accessed remotely via a web interface. No need for screen or keyboard after initial setup. I have 2 Xboxes with XBMC connecting to it. The library function of XBMC is awesome.
If your running an XBMC build from 2006 chances are it will not work with Windows Vista / Windows 7 shares (just FYI) i remember not been able to stream from my SMB shares until the next major XBMC release sometime in 2007.
Actually its win7 thats the problem with smb shares, xp any idiot can setup but win7 is just painful. I used to stream over wifi but since i put a 2tb hdd in my halo console i just ftp the content and play locally off the hdd. Go to xbmc4xbox and download xbmc 3.2 stable from the nightlys tab at top of page.
