ANDROID STICK MUTATES into A house SERVER

Kiss that energy hungry PC you’ve been utilizing as a house server goodbye. [Vince Loschiavo] shows us exactly how he squeezed a amazing amount of performance out of an low-cost Android stick which handles his home’s digital empire.

He started off just wanting some network connected storage. For this he grabbed an MK802 Android Stick which you can get for a tune if you discover the best deal. To bend it to his will he stated goodbye to the Android OS, installing Ubuntu for ARM instead. The stick (which is missing its situation in the picture above) links to a USB hub in hold mode, however does really draw all of its power from the hub itself. This made it possible to connect a USB to Ethernet adapter to increase the speed which would have been restricted by the WiFi connection. There’s a 320 gig USB difficult drive for the storage. keeping that much area on hand it makes sense to add streaming media service also which is easy because it’s running Linux. The last part of his work really turns it into an Asterisk server by method of Google Voice as well as a SIP phone. An outstanding result at a bargain cost to be sure!