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Episode: 2543
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Title: HPR2543: Home Theater - Part 1 Hardware
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2543/hpr2543.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 05:11:32
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This is HPR episode 2,543 entitled Home Theater Part 1 hardware.
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It is hosted by OperaTneroR and is about 9 minutes long and carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, I go over my home theater slash media setup starting with hardware.
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Support universal access to all knowledge by heading over to archive.org.
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Hello and welcome to another episode of Hacker Puppet Radio with your host operator.
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Today we're just going to be a multiple part series kind of of my media center setup,
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which is that of Plex and some speakers and receivers and hardware and software and Internet of things and all that good stuff.
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So that if you're not interested in media setups and automation through building your own kind of TV.
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This is probably not the best fit for you.
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But anyways, where this section is going to be probably three part, maybe four part.
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This first section is going to be the hardware of my Plex and media system.
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So it started out way back when we had not miss, which would actually plug into your cable cable card on your computer.
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And you could record the media from the cable output.
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And they held all this cool processing where it would remove commercials and not necessarily move commercials.
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But it would detect the presence of, for example, the logo of the network and then automatically know when to skip commercials.
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And all that good stuff. So I ran with not meant for a certain amount of time.
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And then I did the whole complete unplug and we use a Yagi antenna for the over the air stuff and everything else is is downloaded.
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So the setup here is, you know, this is a point in time capture.
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So there might be newer models or better solutions for hardware and setup and all that stuff.
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This is kind of a point in time captured over the course of a couple of years from 2017, 2018.
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So I'll go over the setup.
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First things first, I have a receiver in this on your code and then you pay in KYO receiver.
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That receiver has kind of a standby mode where you can control it with an application or remote of you choosing.
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So what I went, what was a zoom tech, the OOTAK wireless remote.
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And then on the other side, it was a keyboard.
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So on one side, it's a kind of a directional kind of traditional remote.
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And then on the other side, it's a straight up keyboard.
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Now you can have four keys on the bottom of the zoom tech to assign to whatever you want.
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What I did find is between the on KYO and the Panasonic world.
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They either want to work or the other one didn't work.
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So I couldn't get Panasonic and on code on on KYO to play nice together.
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So I ended up with the receiver being the master, meaning that I got a trickle star 7 outlet advanced power strip,
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essentially has a master of the receiver.
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And the receiver says, hey, anytime there's something on on this device, turn everything else down the stream on.
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Anytime there's this device on the master is off, then turn everything else off.
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So I had my PV and the actual sub and the Wii in the Wii U all wired up to that same switch, that same power strip.
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So when I turn on the receiver, everything else gets power.
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And then when I turn it off, everything else loses power minus the receiver is kind of on a standby mode.
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So within the master always gets power, everything else actually the power is completely cut off when you turn off the master,
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which is kind of the whole vampire thing, whatever.
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So anyways, we start with the trickle star, have the master set up as the receiver.
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We have Android apps or whatever to control the receiver.
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So you got your Bluetooth, you got your Chromecast audio support through that player.
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And I've got all the notes in there for it.
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Then as a backup for the actual media server itself, I have a cyber power,
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CP 1500, AV, RLCD, it's got an LCD panel on the front.
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And also I've provided the configuration file that I use for it to kind of automatically shut it set off.
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It doesn't do any of that when you first set up.
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I think automatically shuts off right when the power trips.
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So if the power trips is like goes into shut off mode or something.
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So that the configuration file I have is pretty good for cyber power.
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It says like after 30% then shut yourself down.
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The cool part is the the wireless setup I have for the audio.
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So for example, if the child is around and we want to watch something,
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we can still listen to the audio and watch the program with the child not hearing the content.
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So it works more at night, right?
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But in general, it's a Bluetooth receiver transmitter key docs, K-E-E-D-O-X.
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And this is a little box that's a USB Bluetooth device that plugs in to a power source.
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And it does have an onboard battery that we never really use.
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So that power source provides the power 24-7 to the box.
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The box is plugged into the computer.
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The other side is plugged into when you need it into the auxiliary in or auxiliary out of the receiver.
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So at night you plug in the big, it's not the headphone jack, it's the bigger one, whatever it's called.
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And you plug that into the receiver and then everything gets piped to the actual key docs.
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Now the cool thing about that is I purchased I-Ru-Zo.
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Why are the Bluetooth headset?
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I-R-U-N-Z-O.
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They're pretty slick. They're lightweight.
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They held up pretty well.
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One of them actually broke.
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And I don't know if it's because my child was messing with it or whatever,
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but they're seeing pretty solid.
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If you take decent care of them and don't throw them around like a rag doll.
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I wouldn't recommend giving them to children or anything like that.
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But I would say they held up.
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They've held up for the past couple of years.
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Got a decent battery and all that stuff.
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So the idea there is the key docs.
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It supports two, not only one device, but two devices.
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And there's a bunch of stuff out there on the internet.
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And I wasn't able to find anything that was a reasonable price.
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So for the price of the key docs and two of the Bluetooth,
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any Bluetooth, two Bluetooth headphones you can use,
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but I use the, the, these, I, I-R-U-N-Z-O, maybe.
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I-R-U-N-Z-O, NFC foldable ones.
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They're pretty slick.
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So the idea there is that you set it, turn it on,
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and then you hold the two outside plus and minus signs.
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And you can set a second pair and sync two actual audio devices.
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I thought that was pretty cool.
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Um, as far as everything else goes, you know,
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you've got your, your fishing tape,
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standard stuff to, to run the wires in the cable.
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You definitely want to be wired for this type of system.
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And I'll go over the rest of that in a different series.
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So the rest of the series.
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So the, the first part is kind of playing out the hardware.
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All that in maybe in a couple of weeks.
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I'll have the second or third part,
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which is going over the software for Plex.
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And all that mess.
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And then going over the software for.
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Cody going over the software for Cody and all that mess.
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And kind of somewhere in between or both.
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Or one or the other.
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I'll do all the internet based stuff with, with, uh,
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all the, the, the content and how to get all that.
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So anyways, that should wrap this up.
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Um, if you're interested, feel free to let me know what your thoughts are.
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If you do have a Plex or Cody system,
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more specifically a Plex system and what your setup is.
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And if there's anything new with being that I'm missing.
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Um, please let me know.
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And we'll pick up this in a couple of other episodes.
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