What’s the best way to auto mount a usb drive or hard disk? What if the filesystem is ntfs?
To get a list of connected usb disks you can:
sudo blkid
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Raspbmc: iptables
By default, all requests arriving at the pi, coming from the internet (WAN), are blocked. Only requests coming from your local LAN are allowed.
To do this, Raspbmc uses iptables. It’s like a firewall, and uses a set of rules to determine if a request has to be blocked or not.
My raspberry pi
The raspberry pi is an awesome device. It’s affordable, it’s a media center, a web server, very slow and doesn’t use much electricity. It’s also a very good looking piece of hardware. Fits your living room!
This post is about how mine is configured!
The services
- Xbmc (installed as raspbmc): a powerful media center, running on Debian.
- Transmission: A minimalistic torrent client.
- CouchPotato: Software that searches the movies you want and starts to download them as soon as they come available.
- BitTorrent Sync: Dropbox like service, easy way to backup folders on multiple computers.
- Samba: Share a hard disk to the local network.
The place
My pi lives next to my TV. It’s powered by a 5V 2A power supply. It has a 8 gb sd card and their is a 2 TB external usb hard drive attached.
Connected
I use Putty to modify raspbmc via ssh, Yatse android app to control Xbmc. When needed I can connect an external keyboard because I still have 1 usb port over.
Security
As you could possibly open up some ports to the internet, you will want to secure your raspberry pi.
Install
I won’t list the complete process but refer to guides I followed.
0. Static IP
http://choorucode.com/2012/08/14/how-to-assign-a-static-ip-address-to-raspbmc/
1. Raspbmc
First we need to install raspbmc on the pi: http://www.raspbmc.com/wiki/user/windows-installation/.
2. CouchPotato, Transmission
- http://techtutes.net/post/55067052101/media-services-on-rpi#.UzWrmyiPOUl
- http://raspberry-blog.com/howto/installing-couchpotato-on-raspberry-pi/
- http://www.cylindric.net/blog/raspberrypi-adding-sabnzbd-sickbeard-and-couchpotato/
3. BitTorrent Sync
- https://createweb.be/wordpress/?p=1117
- http://jack.minardi.org/raspberry_pi/replace-dropbox-with-bittorrent-sync-and-a-raspberry-pi/
4. Enable samba
You can do this in the xbmc interface.
5. Dynamic Dns
http://www.techjawab.com/2013/06/setup-dynamic-dns-dyndns-for-free-on.html
XBMC tweaks
- By default, if there is no hdmi connected on boot, it won’t enable hdmi. That’s ridiculous!