Not in this particular scenario, used Chrome specifically to to cast from jellyfin. The option is there but it didn’t work. I think it might actually work if I tried a few more times because I noticed it seems temperamental like that, but that’s not really any good because I don’t want to be asking nicely for casting and maybe getting it if it feels like it. I’ve also noticed that with jellyfin, if the source media is decent quality to begin with, it casts at much poorer quality than with emby and takes longer to eventually end up screen. Sounds like a transcoding problem but I wish I knew why exactly because the horsepower is there and it’s handled with aplomb in emby. It works okay with the android app on the live tv function which is mostly SD anyway but it craps out after about every 10 minutes of watching.

Never occurred to me it was optional. I’ll have to check if there’s a setting for it.

I figured it out! I have one folder which has various media in it, films, short videos, games etc, when I set up Jellyfin, I said it was mixed content, that seems to have been the key mistake. Setting the library as ‘shows’ fixes things right up and restores the ability for me to select ‘identify’ if I need to, though it seems I don’t even need to now. It also seems to correctly identify the movies in there despite them not being ‘shows’ so I’m not even sure what the option of mixed movies and shows is even for.

yep figured out the same thing in the end. Not quite sure why I can’t do it from the desktop, it’s obviously supposed to work, and nearly did given the text on my TV screen. I think with enough finagling one could get there, but if it works with the phone which is always on me anyway then whatever.

Thanks fella, so nice of you. Your screen shot along with @tordenflesk’s is helping me at least see I’m not missing anything too obvious. I don’t have the same menu options, which is weird. Here’s what mine look like, they’re the same in the android app as well. https://imgur.com/a/2J5plE8

I don’t know what’s happening with me but there seems to be whole sections of the UI that people can manipulate that I just haven’t seen at all. I’ve tried navigating blindly around the server dashboard and the home screen and I have no identify button nor a series overview for that matter. Feel like I’m missing something super obvious. Driving me nuts.

It’s a chromecast 1, from 2014, can you install apps on those?

Seems not to do anything. No way to edit this ID number for series, and for individual episodes, it has no effect.

Yeh it looks like you need the play store version. I think they just copied their description of the app there on to f-droid or something. It seems like based on some older forum posts that you can do without play store as I’ve seen people talking about reverse proxies and nginx servers but I really didn’t want to be going to all that trouble.

Is this possible to do without changing the filenames on disk? Don’t want it to mess up other processes and it’s named pretty logically anyway.

hmm okay, it almost sort of works with desktop web ui. There is the familiar square with radio waves in the lower left corner icon, when controlling jellyfin from my laptop, but it said Google casting not supported, however I realised now it was because I was using firefox, and using Chrome for this purpose does reveal the theoretical ability to cast to chrome. Unfortunately if you do this, it takes a very long time to begin casting and when it finally does, it simply displays the words Jellyfin for Chromecast but not any media. Trying to start or stop any kind of media doesn’t not work until I disconnect from the chromecast.

On the app, there is simply no ability to use the chromecast from the casting menu. Does it matter that I got it from f-droid? I thought it might, but it specifically said you could cast the chromecast there so I thought it’d be fine after all.

I’ve often thought this about older or less generally useful ports, but then it just keeps coming back to the fact that, if I had the same number of spare ports, plus one more USB that I useD for this keyboard instead of a dedicated PS2 or an old USB 2, I’d be in the same situation but with at least one more useful and fast USB that maybe I might for some reason want to use without my wired keyboard plugged in.

It makes sense in terms of cost, because the older more narrowly useful port is hopefully cheaper, but otherwise it’s just unnecessary and more limiting than the same overall number of ports where all of them are the most widely useful and fastest possible throughput.

What? Why?

I’ve read that masks do not actually thwart these systems.

Yeh Graphene is the plan long term but I have to stick with stock for the time being.

It sounds like it but, in general I prefer to have 1 maybe 2 home screen pages of stuff I know I’ll use all the time right away and anything else I’d rather just search.

I suppose if you have only enough apps to fill maybe a single home screen page then by that standard I’d have a lot as between my less frequently used apps and all of Google’s pre-installed ones that’s probably a few pages, but generally I try to be sparing with them.

That does it. Thanks mate.

Planning to switch to Graphene OS for several reasons, but I have a reason why it will be better for me not to do that until a bit later so until then I’m just trying to be comfortable with stock.

Didn’t know they’d taken out the storage drives but I was aware despite my general ignorance that it’s not turnkey ready to go. I guess what I’m wondering is, is there any part of the of the process involved in designing and building such a supercomputing cluster that is already taken care by buying it in the manner that it has been sold and could that in any way offset the increased costs of trying to bring such a cluster online rather than starting from scratch? I’m not saying it is the case, so much as wondering aloud for anyone with expertise to chime in, to see if that’s a way it could make sense.

I understand there’s a mountain to climb to bring this thing in to a usable state for anyone, but could it maybe get you to base camp more quickly?

Does the hardware being all so arranged as it is in this manner to create a supercomputer make any difference to that evaluation? Like does the work of putting all the outdated hardware together in the complex way needed to make it functional for supercomputing make it potentially cheaper than buying more modern hardware but having to build it all yourself?