theothernt / AerialViews

A screensaver for Android TV devices including Nvidia Shield, Fire TV, and Chromecast with Google TV. Inspired by Apple TV's video screensaver.
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How to set up a server?? #113

Closed MarshMeadow closed 11 months ago

MarshMeadow commented 11 months ago

What is the best way to set up a server??

theothernt commented 11 months ago

What kind of server, and what would you like to do with it?

Also, do you have an existing PC or Mac, or did you want a new device to act as the server?

MarshMeadow commented 11 months ago

For streaming the video or 4k/2k content, for the screensaver, and I am building a PC that I can probably do it off of,

theothernt commented 11 months ago

If you're building a PC and running Windows, then all you need to do is...

  1. Create a folder, place all the videos in that folder
  2. Share the folder - allowing access to that folder over the network
  3. Enter those details into Aerial Views and it should be able to show those videos

For setting up file sharing on Windows, please refer to this support document from Microsoft.

MarshMeadow commented 11 months ago

sounds good, i will check it out later, thanks!

theothernt commented 11 months ago

sounds good, i will check it out later, thanks!

Best of luck, and if you run into any problems with Aerial Views, please feel free to open another issue or comment here.