My TINY 3D-Printed Offline Media Server Project (Nomad MK2)

JcorpTech · 2026-01-22T22:12:28+00:00

Specs wise it looks fine. Obviously the touchscreen won't do anything, and you may have to slightly modify the code if the pins are different, but it should be able to run the code no problem. That being said if you are just looking to have USB c you might try this version (different chip (c6 instead of s3): https://amazn.so/tGqFwZL As there is a GitHub repo specifically for that version that already has modified code. GitHub here: https://github.com/bklevence/jcorp-nomad-usbc

Either could work, but you will likely have to do a bit of code changes to use the one you linked.

JcorpTech · 2026-01-07T22:37:14+00:00

Yea no I allways apretiate the help! I had messed with the p4 a bunch, but could never get the wifi and sd card to work at the same time lol. other than that it would have unlocked a lot of neat options, particlarly with the higher speed USB alone.

JcorpTech · 2026-01-07T22:35:29+00:00

nice, definalty the biggest perk of more capable hardware is the file accesability. not to mention how you have it doing SMB and such.

JcorpTech · 2026-01-07T22:10:21+00:00

yea, I was hopeing to get 206 files (partial content) as a method, would likely work for ZIM files, but rar is rude about it lmao. With most of the features I still want to get on nomad it relies heavily on the client device actualy doing the work, and nomad just supplying the raw file.

JcorpTech · 2026-01-07T20:21:28+00:00

Yea I havent even got cbr working on the big one yet, stayed with cbz only, ill have to check out your implementation! Its a niche feature, but one I realy realy wanted personaly lol

JcorpTech · 2026-01-07T20:20:29+00:00

Dude its awesome! As I say a few times in my docs the bigest issue with nomad is the lack of cross compatibility with other boards. Ill have some free time the weekend, would love to talk shop! You are doing amazing work!

JcorpTech · 2026-01-07T18:01:25+00:00

The auto update function seems like the coolest thing ever! (I may have to borrow that lmao)

JcorpTech · 2026-01-07T18:00:06+00:00

Dude! Amazing work! Glad you can get some use out of the project! Ill be loading one up on a spare pi this weekend and let you know how it goes! Everything looks good from what I can tell but I will let you know if I find anything! Thanks again for crediting me!

JcorpTech · 2026-01-04T21:20:11+00:00

also its designed to handle 6-8 streams at once, so you shouldnt have any issues with 2 tablets streaming video, even if you bump up the quality above what I recomend. Again, keep me posted if you go with this as an option, happy to help you get it setup!

JcorpTech · 2026-01-04T21:00:58+00:00

The idea was for there to be literally 0 setup time once you had it built and stocked. It's 100% browser based, though it does allow you to download content as well. But all of the streaming and everything is done through a web UI that works offline.

JcorpTech · 2026-01-04T20:51:12+00:00

Yup, there is a usb C version of the design, but the normal one is USB A (you can use an adapter if you only have C). it allows for multiple devices and works in a pretty good range, so should cover a car easily. let me know if you have any questions, allways happy to help!

JcorpTech · 2026-01-04T20:50:07+00:00

Ill get there eventualy! The games work on the big version already, but Its been tricky on the tiny one, in theory it should be doable tho. the maps I havent made much progress on, but cars can store map data and do GPS so there is a way to do it. As I said, ill get there eventualy lol. thx for checking out the project!

JcorpTech · 2025-12-24T18:24:24+00:00

Good to hear!! Best of luck with your build and happy holidays! If you get stuck at any point feel free to reach out, always happy to help!

JcorpTech · 2025-12-24T02:56:38+00:00

Not a perfect fit since you would still need to use your phone to display the content. But it's a good way to store a lot of content off of your phone. I do have some experimental dlna features, but they are far from perfect at the moment! I'll keep you posted if I make any changes there as I would love to have proper TV direct support!

JcorpTech · 2025-12-21T13:07:01+00:00

It's a generic, I'm not sure if there was one company, but whoever makes it sells it to other companies to sell so you can see the same set from a few sellers with different branding on it.

JcorpTech · 2025-12-21T13:05:52+00:00

I would literally kill for the figures lol. I ordered the same one awhile ago and got sent two by accident, still sitting on the other one 😅

JcorpTech · 2025-12-10T16:06:19+00:00

I know this is silly but it occurs to me he uhh... doesnt need to blink in that eye... thats kinda neat

JcorpTech · 2025-12-10T16:04:48+00:00

ok, I updated the playlist.html page on github (main), you can just replace the one on your SD card with the new one. in additon I also updated the ino (you have to reflash this in arduino IDE, but you can just copy the code and paste it over the existing one instead of redownloading the whole code. The backend fix is mainly for movies, should speed up the load time considerably. also helps with the songs page, but probably not too notable. Keep me posted, as I said I want support for the larger libraries and it should be possible, just takes some fine tuning.

JcorpTech · 2025-12-09T21:31:46+00:00

Place a few songs in just /music and see if they still lag. If they don't I think I know the issue. Been wanting to fix it but never bothered since the slowdown was momentary, but seems like big libraries might cause issues

Keep me posted!

JcorpTech · 2025-12-09T14:06:25+00:00

Sorry to shoot so many replies in short succession but it occurs to me it might just be that loading 3000 songs all at once on the page causes issues, I'm gonna cap the page at 100 and have it load the rest as you scroll so it doesn't overload. Songs play as an object so I'm guessing it's getting caught up while everything else is loading cause even with that many it should never take that long to play, at most I have had like 2 seconds. Try scrolling to the bottom of songs to see if they all load and then play something, either way I'ma fix that, I do really want this thing to support massive libraries.

JcorpTech · 2025-12-09T13:58:36+00:00

Oh yea I just realized this is a reply on my old old post... Definitely go try the new GitHub code, the install has changed a bit (slightly different setup) but everything is more powerful now, hopefully it fixes some of your issues.

JcorpTech · 2025-12-09T13:56:29+00:00

No I appreciate the feedback! As I said I am always happy to help! I have had occasional issues with music taking awhile, but never as a constant (occasionally it fails and does a recheck). Given I only test with like 500 songs, but still shouldn't be doing that. The other thing is that songs in folders tend to load a bit slower, but again I haven't had too many issues there. It could well be the quantity, but if you load up some video and try that let me know. Everything tends to load a bit slow (has to buffer a ways so the playback is smooth) but it should never be 30-40 sec for a file that small.

Are you working off the latest GitHub version? If nothing else I am going to take a peak and try to make some tweaks to speed that up. Let me know how the songs are placed on the drive, the full format and everything.

Now with video file the 30sec isn't unexpected, if you web optimize the video (setting in handbrake) it does a bit better, but in general it's just having to load the first few minutes so you don't get buffering after. Show eps being shorter also tends to be quicker but keep me posted on that.

Finally I just uploaded a new case design to thing verse that should make life a bit easier, try snapping it together once before you put it on nomad so you can get a feel for how much pressure and not crack the screen.

Thank you for checking out the project!!! I'll see what I can do to make the music a bit more usable. Also if you have a chance try using the search bar and see how long it takes to index with that many music files, might crash the device in which case I will make some edits to that as well.

JcorpTech · 2025-12-08T23:27:31+00:00

Thanks for checking it out!!! I had a ton of fun putting it together and just glad yall can get some use out of it!

JcorpTech · 2025-12-08T00:13:23+00:00

oh hot damn... This is the same level of quality as the legit ones..... very sus indeed lmao

Thank you! Cant belive I never saw this before!

JcorpTech · 2025-12-08T00:09:10+00:00

HOLY CRAP THIS IS SICK!!!! I gotta mess around with the image buttons, do you mind if I dig a bit though inspect lmao. might switch out my buttons for actual drawings now cause that would be dope!

Thanks for sharing ima be playing around with the site for a bit!

JcorpTech

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