Is this a modern piratebox?
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
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I hadn't seen pirate box when I put it together, but someone recently forked my project to literally reserect piratebox! check it out on the github under forks.
It's not exactly the same as the pirate box, but very similar ideas. I will check out the fork.
That's a novel concept, it is sad to see it is no longer a thing. That is like a well of media, it must have been thrilling to have to physically travel to access a message board.
I've read the article but i still don't understand what this would actually be useful for.
Just something I threw together for a road trip, its cheaper than running a standard media server on normal hardware or a raspi, and does just the bare minimum for me and the guys to get entertainment on the road. Basically the same thing that most airlines use for inflight entertainment these days.
It looks like it has a very limited number of media formats that are supported. A small SBC like a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W or one of the low end Orange Pi boards would be much more useful since there wouldn't be any restrictions on what could be served.
My goal was to keep it small and cheap (its also my first time working with one of these things) but I am almost done the big fancy polish update which will add much better file type support, and can even do higher quality HD video now, well soon in like a day or two when I post it lol. I am also working on a raspi 2w version for it though since the ARM board have some useful features!
Or you could use Tdarr or something similar to convert your media before adding them.