I’m very pleased with the OrangePi. I use it for my Jellyfin server. It sometimes struggles with real-time 4k transcoding, but I generally transcode videos before watching things anyways, so it’s not a problem.
being that compact, and being fanless, I’d worry about temps in the switch. It’s also a max 45watt total across all 8 ports, so it’s not great, but at $200, it’s not bad.
I’m very pleased with the OrangePi. I use it for my Jellyfin server. It sometimes struggles with real-time 4k transcoding
What model OPi do you use and what system image (Armbian, Diet Pi, OrangeOS)?
I’ve got the Orange Pi Zero 2W (effectively the OPi 3 in a different form factor) and also run Jellyfin on it, but there’s no stable GPU support in Armbian. It also doesn’t even transcode 720p at a usable rate, so I just pre-encode everything to something it can direct stream.
It’s not my primary JF server, but it is nice to have during power outages and such since I can run it all day from a power bank.
I got a ‘Orange Pi 5 Plus 16GB’, and have Armbian on it. I haven’t noticed any GPU issues, so I’m surprised to hear there may be no support. It seems to work well for me. I’ll have to read up on that. Maybe I should be running something else.
Ah. The 5 Plus uses a Rockchip SOC where the Opi 3 / Zero 2W use Allwinner. I’ve read Rockchip is better supported, so maybe I’ll look into one of those. I just wanted the Pi Zero form factor for this project so went with that one. I should also have clarified that there’s no stable GPU support in Armbian for the OPi 3/Zero 2W but there are for other models.
Even without GPU, I’m surprised it runs Jellyfin at all let alone quite well (lack of transcoding aside). That’s in addition to running everything else I threw on it at the same time, so I’m still genuinely impressed.
I didn’t realize they had different chips either (yay for not reading close enough).
For many years I was running everything on that System76 Meerkat (basically an old Intel NUC). IT was getting really old, so I thought I’d try that bigger OrangePi to see if I could host everything on the ARM chip (answer is yes). A new Meerkat is $700+, and the OrangePi 5 is like $250. So far it’s a win for sure.
I’ve been curious about those Pi Zero machines. I should get one just as a toy.
I’ve been eyeing this switch as well (16 port, with 8 being PoE, and very compact):
https://techspecs.ui.com/unifi/switching/usw-lite-16-poe?
I’m very pleased with the OrangePi. I use it for my Jellyfin server. It sometimes struggles with real-time 4k transcoding, but I generally transcode videos before watching things anyways, so it’s not a problem.
8 PoE ports. Nice. I’ve got a separate 5 port PoE switch currently and wouldn’t be sad about getting rid of that.
being that compact, and being fanless, I’d worry about temps in the switch. It’s also a max 45watt total across all 8 ports, so it’s not great, but at $200, it’s not bad.
What model OPi do you use and what system image (Armbian, Diet Pi, OrangeOS)?
I’ve got the Orange Pi Zero 2W (effectively the OPi 3 in a different form factor) and also run Jellyfin on it, but there’s no stable GPU support in Armbian. It also doesn’t even transcode 720p at a usable rate, so I just pre-encode everything to something it can direct stream.
It’s not my primary JF server, but it is nice to have during power outages and such since I can run it all day from a power bank.
I got a ‘Orange Pi 5 Plus 16GB’, and have Armbian on it. I haven’t noticed any GPU issues, so I’m surprised to hear there may be no support. It seems to work well for me. I’ll have to read up on that. Maybe I should be running something else.
Ah. The 5 Plus uses a Rockchip SOC where the Opi 3 / Zero 2W use Allwinner. I’ve read Rockchip is better supported, so maybe I’ll look into one of those. I just wanted the Pi Zero form factor for this project so went with that one. I should also have clarified that there’s no stable GPU support in Armbian for the OPi 3/Zero 2W but there are for other models.
Even without GPU, I’m surprised it runs Jellyfin at all let alone quite well (lack of transcoding aside). That’s in addition to running everything else I threw on it at the same time, so I’m still genuinely impressed.
I didn’t realize they had different chips either (yay for not reading close enough).
For many years I was running everything on that System76 Meerkat (basically an old Intel NUC). IT was getting really old, so I thought I’d try that bigger OrangePi to see if I could host everything on the ARM chip (answer is yes). A new Meerkat is $700+, and the OrangePi 5 is like $250. So far it’s a win for sure.
I’ve been curious about those Pi Zero machines. I should get one just as a toy.