Just read through the thread, , it gets me really excited for my own game room build.

I have an unraid setup too!

I undertasnd that you are planning to use kodi for your media. I used xbmc/kodi for years, but found plex through a friend about a year ago. It's scraping and ui has saved me so much time when adding or changing my library. My family has thanked me as well, it's much more user friendly for kids and wife that don't quite get a grip on the controls to manage kodi.

Plex also allows access to all your media outside your network if you have a gold pass. Not a salesman here just found kodi consuming too much time with scrapers not functioning consistently, having aspect ratios go crazy when I changed anything in my media player, or having a power outage throw things off. Plex seems to be more polished since it is a commercial product.

Let us know your setup as far as kodi and media serving goes, can't wait to see how your theater turns out!

I have a rich uncle, but he's tighter than a superband

@4k, they better be ! Hehe

WAY to go! It's really coming along nicely!!!

Im getting really close to start on my game room, I just need to STOP buying games! why do all the good deals happen right when I am about to apply for permits?!?!?!?

Yeah... I'm going to build a 2 story extension to my house, and there's electrical wires to deal with that are in the way, soooooo... I just finished the design of the exterior and I have to take the design for the third time to city hall to get permits to build

hehe, you'd expect me to say... well, it's going to be many things... but yes, a 2 story gameroom in my backyard, I'll post a thread soon, in actuality; it will be less square footage as yours, but I have to build up, and there's no chance of basements in the desert where I live

Good call

That’s really cool! I’m trying to pick out my lighting as well, but I’m concerned about lights on the ceiling reflecting on the pins glass... what are your thoughts?

Nice! Finally someone who runs an unraid server too! I’ve had mine going about 5 years now, running Plex and having a blast. I’m also in on another unraid server that my friend hosts... never run out of content!!!

A few inquiries...
What app is running your vertical preview TV with the Movie posters?
Are you using a Movies Organization / automated app? (I can't seem to find a decent working one, couch potato does very little for me, I almost do everything by hand)

I had used xbmc (kodi) for the longest time (ever since the original xbox), then I discovered plex a while back and hadn't looked back, we have Roku's at all of my families houses and access everything from them, we would have done Rpi's, but the ease of setup and other readily available apps made the Roku the devise of choice... I'm tapped out at 27tb and started to delete content (mostly daily shows, or reality shows my wife watches), I'll start upgrading drives soon, just hadn't had space to work in. I bought a bunch of 2 tb drives on special a year ago, and now there's 10tb drives!!?? crazy talk... I don't think I'll dump my current setup, I'll just build another unraid box and run both, at least until the first is obsolete by a mile.

that Norco 4224 case looks killer, That may be the case of choice in the near future for me as well, I need to look back in to lime techs drive cap to see if its viable

EDIT: I have a pro license, so... unlimited drives / storage... that answered the question of the rebuilding of the server, I'll just ditch my current case and upgrade when it comes time, I'll probably need to upgrade my mobo as well for more pci slots to add more sata connections

Yup, got a 4tb parity drive in place, I’ve been adding 2tb drives in one at a time, but I’ve got a few 500gb and 1 tb drives in play that need to be traded out, I think I have 9 drives including parity in unraid and 4 more drives on a network share that has current content that finds its way over to the unraid when it’s time to flush out... thanks for the heads up on movie poster app and emby, I’ve got a buddy that uses emby, but we haven’t discussed it much...

I use a special commercial server grade pcie sata card that is upgradeable via proprietary sata cables, the card can host 8 or more drives I believe, I can dig into it more if you need info.... just need more space to work with (which I’m working on)

Thanks for the links! Man stuff is so cheap now! A hand full of years ago that hardware was 10x the price