Okay, I'm excited for this one. We're going to turn this a raspberry
PI a credit card size computer into a Nass, a network attached
storage device. What? Yes. I actually needed a small NASA to take
with me on my family road trip and the raspberry PI. It's perfect.
And shout out to bid defender, total security for sponsoring this
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here at later in the video. So this will be my travel nest. Something that can hold a ton
of movies and Plex media server, and also be a place where I can offload
my vlog footage for my camera and sink back into my house, which this
will do all of that. It's amazing. So get your coffee ready. And this video, I'm going to show you how to build a
raspberry PI Nass Nass that you can take with you as you travel, or it could
be your main Nass at your house. And I know what you're thinking. Do
I actually need a Nass? Yes. Yes. You need a Nass. This video will
have two parts part number one, setting up your raspberry PI as a Nass.
I'll walk you through every step part. Number two, I'll walk you through how to set up a
Plex media server on that same raspberry PI, which is awesome. So
now that begs the question. What do you need to do this? I do recommend you getting a raspberry
PI four and the more Ram the better. So four or eight gigs ramp,
like all raspberry PI projects, you'll need the essentials like a
power adapter SD card, SD card reader, and a case which is optional,
but that's what you need. I've got links below for a
kit that includes all of this. And then finally you'll need some
sort of USB hard drive for this. It could be anything. It could be one
of these massive Seagate hard drives, or it could be a small T five Samsung SSD, which I do recommend these
they're wicked fast and last, but certainly not least. You're
going to need some coffee network, chuck.coffee. Now, if you
want to go crazy like me, you can get this really
cool kit from geek worm. It comes with a raspberry
PI hat to that'll let you
install an internal state of hard drive and then put it into
a nice little case. It's awesome. So if you want to do that by that, but
as far as following along this video, it's the same instructions. Whether you're using an external hard
drive or you're buying that geek or I'm kit anyways, enough of theory and
talking, get your coffee ready. Oh, and also in case you're wondering
what's in NASA and why do I need one? I already answered that question in
this video, wherever it is up here. And just so you know, normally
getting a Nass, it's kind of pricey. It'll set you back a
pretty penny, but dude, this where my raspberry PI
go raspberry PI. Here he is. But this is relatively cheap and awesome
and fun. So why not? So here we go. Raspberry PI ness right now. So step one, let's go ahead and bake our pie or
prepare our SD card and get the operating system on there. So what we'll
do is get your micro SD card, plug it into your USB adapter. I have one right here and then
plug that into your computer. Boom. From here, we're going to prep our SD
card by using the raspberry PI imager it's everywhere, windows, Mac, Linux, check the link below and download that
sucker and we'll go and get started. So first we get to choose our
operating system, go and click on that. And from here, we're going to
choose raspberry PI O S other, and then we'll select the
raspberry PI iOS light, which basically means
no desktop, no goofy. All we care about right now is having
a command line and then choose your storage, click that and select your SD card that
you just plugged in and make sure you select that sucker. And don't
overwrite something important, like your hard drive. And then
here's a little hack. It's so cool. I just found it hit control,
shift X on your keyboard. Bam. What just happened a little head and
shortcut that allows us to prep our operating system. Before we actually throw it into
our a raspberry PI things like, Hey, I want to enable SSH and we can
set the password for the PI user. So go ahead and select that. I'm
gonna put the password in for my guy. Now you can also set up wifi, but I highly recommend you use
Ethan net for this project. In fact, I tried to do wifi and
something broke. It didn't work. So go hardwire on this one.
Now that's all I care about. I'm going to click save. And what this enables me to do is not
have to plug it into a monitor and put a keyboard and mouse on this guy.
It's going to be a headless install, which means I plugged into my network. It comes up and I can just simply access
it. So once you change your settings, go ahead and click on a right and
it's going to format it. Yeah, I am sure let's do this.
Here we go. Coffee break. Okay. My pie is done baking. We can pull that sucker out of the
computer and get that in the PI. So pull the micro SD card out.
Slide that into your raspberry PI. And now we're ready to booth a sucker
up. Ethan, that cable. Oh yeah. Love that sound and power. And
that's it. He's booting up. Now. We're going to access and log into this
raspberry PI via SSH, but to do that, and we have to first know his IP address,
but how do we find his IP address? Well, the easiest way is to
check with your home router. Your home router will give out an IP
address to your raspberry PI via DHCP. And if you log into it, just look at the last device that
signed in and got an IP address for me. I'm using unify and boom. I know
this is the guy right here and yeah, I do have a ton of raspberry PI. So
leave me alone. So find the IP address, launch your command prompts or terminal, whatever OS you're using and now to SSH
into our PI the command will be S S H space pi@theipaddressofyourpiten.seven.one
dot 1 0 8 for me, and then hit enter. Yes,
I accept it type in. Yes. And then the password you set when you
set up your PI, if you did not do that, it'll be raspberry. All lowercase and bam. We are in quick coffee break just
for fuel. Here we go. All right. First things first, we need to make
sure this raspberry pie is up to date. So we're going to do sudo apt
update and then do ampersand ampersand and ant space.
Pseudo apt upgrade. This command is doing two things. First. We're updating all repositories and
they're actually installing all the available updates. If you want to
learn more about how that works, check out my Linux series right
here, somewhere over here. Anyway, let's keep going. So
go ahead and hit enter. And this is going to take a
little bit, so coffee break. Yes. I want you to install everything.
Thank you. And mine is done. He'll know yours is done. When
you see the matrix stop scrolling, then you're good. Now to
install our Nast software, to turn our raspberry PI into a Nass, the best solution I found for the
raspberry PI is called open media vault. It's amazing. And we can install
it with just one command. Check this out by the way, I'll
have all these commands below. If you want to follow
along and copy and paste, because that's what I do anyways. Here's
our command. I'm going to type in sudo. I'm going to paste it in there. And what we're doing here is using the
w get command or downloading a script from GitHub. This is
from open media vault, and then we're running
that script using bash. And the script is going
to do a ton of things. This will actually take a bit of time,
a super long coffee break, but anyways, all we have to do now is hit enter.
It's so simple, man, here we go. Real quick. Let's talk about
cyber security. Why? Well, because you're about to install a Plex
media server on your raspberry PI, and often when you're downloading movies, you might be downloading those movies
from sites that maybe are thieves most secure, meaning you could end up
downloading a virus, malware, ransomware, things that can bridge your computer.
Things that could destroy your data. You've got to have something to protect
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hacking. You don't want to get hacked. So protect yourself. Okay. I
think mine is done. And I say, think because you may get
disconnected from the raspberry PI, as it's doing its thing, it
also may change its IP address. So you may want to go back to your router
and double check to see and mind to change. Actually it was 1
0 8 before now it's one 11. So I'm gonna get logged back into it real
quick. SSH PI at that new IP address, it just randomly got that's. It
opened media ball is installed. Let's go log into it. So
we're gonna actually going
to go to the, uh, web gooey. So open up your favorite web browser
and let's navigate to ten.seven.one.one, one, one for me, whatever it is
for you. Aha. Look at bits. Okay. Let's get logged in
default. Username is admin. Default password is open media volts. Yes. Whoo. Here we go. We're in now. Yeah,
there is a lot going on here. Don't worry. I'm going to walk you through a few steps. Get you up and running
with your Nass. Step one. Let's change that default password.
You want to get hacked here? So on the left here, we'll
click on general settings, general settings and then click on web
administrator password and just type in that new password. Click on save.
And it's going to kick you out. I think we're good. Me refresh the
page real quick. Reload. Oh yeah. We're solid. We're good. Password
changed. Okay. Next step. We are ready to plug in our
USB external hard drive. So let's go ahead and do that. And it's really that simple mine is
coming up and now let's make sure that the open media vault can actually
see it. So under storage, we're going to click on discs, click on
that fingers crossed. Yeah, there it is. Awesome. So you should
see something like this. You'll have your SD card
that your OS is installed on. And then that USB hard
drive that you plugged in. Hopefully now you could get a massive
SD card and simply run your Nass off of that store. Everything on there, but it's going to be more economical
for you to have a USB hard drive. So now let's actually start
using it a few steps here. Now we're going to navigate to a file
systems over here, underneath storage, going click on that from here,
select your USB hard drive, select, and then at the top select Mount
and boom, give it a second. It's thinking let's do it with
stuff. Yeah. Notice when we did that, two things happen first is like, Hey,
I can see things. It's mounted second. It's like, Hey, do you want to
apply these changes? Not quite yet. We want to make a few more changes, but just know that nothing will actually
take place until we click apply. Next step. Now that we have
this file system mounted, we now need to create a shared folder, which will be right over here under
access rights management. Bam. There she is shared folders.
Go ahead and click on that. And here it should be blank.
Nothing. There let's change that. Let's go ahead and click on, add at
the top left. Kind of yeah. Click on, add couple of things. First let's name,
our shared folder. I'll name mine. Nasty. It's minus uh,
next select device here. I've got one choice. My USB hard drive. The one I just mounted that has already
filled out for you based on the name you put in permissions for most of
us whatever's already there by default is fine and that's pretty much
it. Go ahead and click on save. Boom. Not for me. It looks like it had a
bit of trouble with permissions. Uh, I'm going to go fix that right now
actually. So if you've got the same thing, let's cover it. So go and click on. Okay. And here we can actually just close
this out. Uh, cause it's already there. There it is. So let's fix our
permissions. Um, go ahead. Make sure you have nasty selected and
then click on privileges right here at the top for our user pie. I want to make
sure he does have read, write access. I'll go ahead and do that. I'll do it for as user and group
just for fun and click on safe. Cool. That's good. Now at this point, I do want to go ahead and click on
apply cause uh, I'm getting nervous. I wanna make sure my changes are
actually going to take effect. So go ahead and click on apply to
have all these things do it and yeah, I do really want to do it. So click
on yes and quick coffee break. Good stuff. Okay. I think that
means we're solid. Amazing. Yes. Okay. So at this point, our
raspberry pie, it's a mass man. It's got some hard drive.
It's got the share setup, but now we have to configure
how we can actually access it. How we can use it for this. We really
have two options. Well not only two, but the main two ways
are through NFS or SMB. Those are services that we can enable
right over here under well services. Now, which one should you enable? Well,
SMB, that's going to be windows. That's what windows uses as default
for file sharing. And then for Lennox, that's going to use NFS and this will
also be Mac as well. Um, do both. You can do both. No worries.
We're going to do that right now. So first I'll click on
SMB, go and click on that. And it's super easy to
do this. Stupid, easy. Just click on that little
dot or check bubble. Just click that. Please. I'll have to
call it and click on save. That was easy. And then one more thing. Click on shares right here and we'll
need to add the share we already created. So just click on, add and
we'll select our shared folder. We already have created
nasty. There you are buddy. We've got some options down here,
which you could very well change. If you want to like setting it to read
only or enabling time machine support, you can always go back and change
this. I'm just going to click on save. Let's go ahead and do NFS as well. So
under services, once more click on in Fs, that's a horrible arrow. What am
I doing? Anyways? Click on NFS. Same story here. Click on.
Enable hoo. So hard. Click on, save and then under shares, click
on that shares button right there. Let's go and add him. We'll add nasty. There you are nasty and click on
safe again. We have some options. You can always go back and change. We'll
click on save just for fun right now. And then finally to make sure all these
changes take effect the very top, right? We're going to click on apply to make
sure this stuff does it stack so click on apply. Yup. And coffee
break. Fingers crossed. Oh no, I curse that. I got
an error. Let's go it on. It looks like it's NFS related now.
I'm not sure right now what's going on. I'll just click on. Okay. And uh, I'm gonna try it one more time
just to see what happens. Yeah. Let's give it one more chance here.
Same issue, time to troubleshoot. Okay. I found a solution. So for those of you
who want to use NFS, you got to do this. This basically involves deleting
and reformatting your hard drive. So if you have anything on
there, you want to keep yeah, you're going to lose it anyways. So what I did is I first
stopped my SMB service. I then deleted my shared folder. So
it's not here anymore. So it's gone. And then under file systems, what you don't see anymore is my
USB flash drive because when I, or not flash a hard drive,
because when I selected it, I selected unmount and it unmounted it.
And then finally I went over to discs. I selected this bad boy and I said,
wipe, which erases everything. So now we're at the point where I can go
over here to file systems and create a new file share, click on, create here at
the top, right. And select our device, which is right there. My
Samsung there I'll label it. My drive and file system. Ext four
is what we want click on. Okay. And it's going to delete everything,
create a new partition for us, and this should solve any issues with
NFS. Again, if you didn't have that issue, you could just skip the head. Anyways, I'm going to go in and re enable NFS
and SMB and see if this using the exact same steps as we previously
went through. Anyways, coffee break while this does it stay.
All right. Cool. My file system is ready. Then take too long, going click on close. Pretty much the same steps as before
I'll click on him to mountain. He has been mounted. Okay, next I'm
going to blow through this by the way. Cause we've already done it. Shared folder create a shared
folder privileges like in my PI guy, the rights save. I'm going to go into apply this
just to make sure it all works well. And then we'll do SMB and NFS and
see if we get the error message, which is what we doubt. And then very quickly the same steps
as before enable SMB, add the share, enable NFS the share. And now let's click on apply
and dang fingers crossed. Yes. Come on. Come on, come on, come
on. Come on. No error message. Yes, problem sod. Easy enough. Here we go. So now let's just make
sure this thing works. So I'm going to actually
connect to the share in windows. So here in windows and
launch my, uh, file Explorer, go over here to new this PC and
just right. Click here and click on, add a network location, click on
next, next. And then right here, two backsplashes ten.seven. That
one.one oh one, my raspberry PI IP. And then the name of my share,
which was nasty. Here we go. Prompting me for a login and put
in PI and then the password for PI. Huh? Didn't like that. Hmm. Let's go take a look at
our users real quick. So scrolling on the left here
under access rights management, I'm going to click on user and there's
Mr. Pie, but uh, he's not working. So let's go ahead and edit him real
quick. I'm going to select Mr. Pie, select and edit and I'm just
gonna change his passwords. I'll put a new password in here. I guess I assumed it would use
the same login as the, uh, system. Maybe it doesn't I'll click
on. Save interesting error. Try it again. Okay, cool.
That worked apply. Okay, cool. We successfully changed the
password of Mr. Pie here. Let's get back to our file share
and that same password in once more. This should work now. Yes. Okay. I
want to name this nasty and it's done. So now if I look at my file
Explorer, there he is. Click on him. That's my raspberry PI. That's the
Nass. I can just drag crap over there. Like let me just, uh,
find something real quick. I'll just drag the raspberry pie
imager download from earlier, which I'll just copy that jump bins and
nasty and paste. Boom. Let's find it. Let's get a larger file. I want to see
all the transfer is like a video. Yeah. Let's throw a video in there. Let's
paste that video. Not too bad. Not too bad at all. Now that's pretty
much it. My raspberry PI Nass is ready. He's done open media vault installed. I
got my share. I can access it remotely. That's amazing. Now I didn't cover how
to set up a NFS share on Linux or Mac. I'll leave a link below on
how to do that. And of course, open media vault has a ton of other
stuff like look here. I mean, we, you can do some things like our
sync FTP. You can install plugins, add some extra functionality
to your open media vault, but that's for you to play with tinker
and figure out we're going to move on to talking about Plex. Let's install Plex on this same Nass so
we can watch stuff so I can watch stuff. And my kids can watch things and
not drive me crazy on my road trip. Let's do that right now. And actually
it's not too bad at all. It's really easy. Watch this. Here we go. So first we're going to relaunch our
terminal and get logged back into our raspberry PI SSH PI at
our PI's IP address, ten.seven.one dot one-on-one
for me now. And come on, jump in there and I'm in here we go.
Now this will involve a few steps. I'll have all the commands below.
So make sure you check that out. Copy and paste as we go along or you
can type it in that's good muscle memory for typing stuff in the terminal.
But anyways, here we go. First command pseudo apt. We're
going to install something install. And this package is called
apt dash transport dash HTTPS. Go ahead and, and enter once you have that type
dinner pasted out quick coffee break. Not too long though, and it's
already done. Cool. Next step. Now the next few steps involve us getting
Plex installed and that involves us getting the repositories added
to our raspberry PI here again, if you wanna learn more about repositories
and ABT and installing stuff on Linux, check out the video up here somewhere or
the series that cover the whole thing, but we have to add the Plex repository
to our raspberry PI so we can reach out to it and download Plex. Let's
go ahead and do that first. We're going to start with adding the
keys to make sure we're actually going to the right place and
it's verified. So again, paste this command copy and paste
is curling out to Plex done. Then we'll paste the next command. This command will actually add the Plex
repositories to our repository list done. And now that we've added this new
repository to our list of repositories, we need to update our list
of available packages. So we'll do the command pseudo
apt update that simple hit enter and quick off the break.
And now for our final step, we're going to install Plex.
Here we go. Sudo apt, install, Plex media server, all one word. And
if you're wondering what Plex is, it's amazing. It's like Netflix that
you had yourself. You host it. Hoo. So cool. Anyways, that's our
command. Go ahead and hit, enter and relaxed and out
about 40%. You get a question, just go ahead and type an end for no,
this is fine. And then let it keep going. And mine is ready. I love seeing this installation
successful errors zero. Oh, isn't that the most? It's just the
best feeling in the world anyways. What do we do now? Now we just go
access Plex. And how do we do that? Let's launch our web browser
real quick. It has a beautiful. Now when you see something like this
and open media vault, don't worry. It just means you got logged out. Session
expired. It feels very scary. Anyways, opened up a new tab. We'll navigate
out to ten.seven.one.one, one, one. Uh, this is the, the IP address
of your raspberry PI. We'll do colon 30 to 400. This is the port that Plex
uses and then Ford slash web had enter. Yes. Look, there goes ah, Plex on our raspberry PI. That's already a Nass. Okay. Now you will
need a free flex account. No big deal. I already have one. I'm going to sign
in and it's going to sit here for a bit. Don't worry. It will get
to a menu here in a second. It's going to walk us through
the setup. Okay, here we go. I'm going to click on. Got it. Cause I
got it. I was going to ask you to pay. You don't have to. So just click on
X, let's name, your PI on their mind. Nasty actually lowercase,
nasties better. There we go. I don't want to access outside my
house. I'll uncheck that click on next. And then you select your library
and we'll click on add library. I'm going to select movies. I'll
name it, movies. That's fine. And then I'll browse
through my media folder. It's actually going to scan the
drives in your raspberry PI Nass. So let's do that browse for media folder
actually real quick. Before I do this, I'm gonna click cancel. Um, I
want to make sure I have a folder. So I'm gonna jump back into my windows
Explorer here. Jump into nasty, create a new folder and videos
or hot shall name it and movies. And I'll put my one video downloaded
inside there. Perfect. Now it's fine. I'll scroll down and there
is there's nasty. Hey buddy. And let's go to the top here. There
it is movies. And I'll just click on, add to add that folder and
then click on add library. I could add more here if I want to,
but for now, that's all I care about. I'll click on next and done. So now let's see if it
worked over here on the left. I've got my movies folder on my
nasty pie. Let's click on that. There's one. My one video let's play
that. You need to learn Python right now. Hold up. Why? What, why do you
need to learn Python? You do. Do you realize what just
happened here? Hold my gosh. Raspberry PI with a Nass on it. It's a network attached storage
pool. That's already cool. Right? But then we also installed
Plex media server. So now, I mean I can watch it on
my phone. Check this out. I have the Plex app on my
phone, which is also free. And then right here watching it
off of Mr. Nasty here right now. How cool is that? That real
quick. If you do want to go crazy, let's talk about that. I'm going to
make mine go crazy real quick. Okay. I'm gonna go crazy. You
ready? 1, 2, 3, boom. I hope that works out. My
raspberry PI NASA got an upgrade. Now this is the case in the, in
the, say the hat from geek worm. Super cool inside this, I've got
an internal two terabyte SSD. It's got a nice power button and
just looks slick, built like a tank. This thing's awesome. Now again, if
you do want to go crazy like this, the instructions are the same. In fact
that same raspberry PI was demoing with. I just took it, threw it in here, attach the drive and it just
showed up in open media vault. So same thing. It's
awesome. It's easy. Now. I'm not going to show you
how to put this all together. There's a great video from geek worm. So all the links are below the link
to how to build this and the parts and everything all below. But yeah, this little tiny package is running a
mass and Plex. It's just a raspberry PI, but it's so cool. But
yeah, that's all I got. I can't wait to take this on the
road and see how it performs. This will be my Nass away
from home on the road. This will be my Plex media
server for my kids in the car. And I will have my file sinking back
and forth between my massive Nass, my big Nass here at
home. Oh, and by the way, have you hacked the
YouTube algorithm today? Let's make sure you do hit that like
button notification, bell comment, subscribe. Yeah. All that stuff
hack you today. Ethically of course. And of course, let me know what you
think of the video in the comments below. Let me know if you do
this. It could be crazy. Like desert could be as simple as just
having a raspberry PI and a hard drive and external hard drive,
which totally works. Yeah. Um, three cups of coffee in today.
I'm going to have more, but yeah, that's honestly all I have.
I'll get you guys next time.
