School me on home "server racks"

[speedog]

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You are a sick, sick man but the drive out there for the races is well worth it. Thanks.

[benyl]

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everyone needs a hobby, i hear some people on here like growing grass in Aspen in their free time.

ftfy

[rage2]

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I dont know if this needs its own thread, but doing the basment soon and I think I need to do some planning.

With your setup Buster, can the xbox be accessible from any TV? And if so, what's the magic making that happen?
If you had any kind of plan/design or link on how/where to put that together id be super grateful. I looked up your emotiva, but couldn't tell from their site what it really did in layman's terms.

Currently I've got a basic setup upstairs; a TV, pioneer vsx831 receiver, a mini Nintendo, and a shield. Downstairs ive got a tv thats getting replaced, a soundbar and an Xbox one. Then a half rack of pc power for plex, storage, etc.

If I could make devices like the shield or Xbox available on multiple tvs, that would be the dream.

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You are probably needing either very long HDMI runs from a central receiver or a HDBaseT setup to accomplish that. It’s possible, but has some limitations in terms of picture quality (4K).

I think 100 feet is a pretty hard limit for an HDMI cable so you might need to get creative but using HDMI is the best option.

If you want to use a single Xbox one on every tv, and long runs, you’ll need hdbaset matrix. They’re expensive, but thankfully I’m giving mine away cheap.

https://forums.beyond.ca/threads/412...-and-Receivers

I’ll discount it down to $150. Just taking up space right now. Xbox one on up to 4 TVs simultaneously, as long as your controller has the range for it.

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

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maybe it's because i deal with this crap every day at work, but i just don't get how you guys enjoy this stuff so much, lol

I never got away from the desk into the datacenters enough to get sick of it. Now I'm "DevOps", so this is even further from my day to day. I just want to setup a VM lab, and get my network/nas stack centrilized. I got tired of all of it sitting on my desk.
Plus, who doesn't like to make things "pretty"?