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If you own a Logitech Harmony IR remote*, Intel NUC5CPYH already has its own profile on MyHarmony application.В Just add a new device and put these values:

Device: HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0/HDMI Audio Out.

Channels: 7.1 (depending on your audio receiverвЂ™s input/output capability).

But for Intel NUC, the key is to select the right Device type and Device under Settings > Audio panel.

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Plex Media PlayerвЂ™s Audio Configuration Guide is a little bit vague in explaining how to enable HD audio passthrough. Setting DTS-MA and Dolby TrueHD passthrough

It should load PMP and you can start using it immediately. Then you need to follow the on-screen installation process and select the other USB stick as the destination drive to whereВ app will be installed.ДЄfter the installation is complete, you can unplug the disk image stick and reboot the NUC. The NUCВ should try to detect a bootable drive, in this case the USB stick with PMP disk image. Next step is to create the disk image for the USB stickВ by following the official tutorial.ДЄfter plugging both USB sticksВ (one with the disk image and another that will act as the computerвЂ™s drive) and keyboard to the Intel NUC, turn it on.

Click on Download button, then select Intel 64-bit.

Under Choose your app, select Plex Media Player > Embedded Platforms.

Make sure Plex Pass Downloads is checked on.

To download Plex Media Player (PMP) for the Intel NUC, just follow these steps: Plex Media Player forВ Embedded PlatformsВ installation

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In addition, you also need a spare USB drive withВ around 1GB of storage and USB keyboard to copy and install the Plex Media Player for embedded platformВ image. For me, the SanDisk Ultra Fit just offered the best bangВ for the buck. You could go with SDXC or even hard drive/SSDВ instead of using USB flash drive, that one is completely up to your preference.

SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive вЂ“ $10.

Kingston HyperX Impact Black 4GBВ 1600MHz DDR3L SODIMM вЂ“ $25.

HereвЂ™s the list of components to get it up and running: While some people might doubt itsВ processing power because it is still running on Celeron processor, but itвЂ™s already based on Braswell chipset and BraswellВ comes with HEVC hardware acceleration support. Primarily because of the price point, at less than $130 (barebone, no RAM, no drive) it was still quite an amazing price. The hardware: Intel NUC5CPYHДЄ few options came into consideration, including NVIDIA SHIELD TV and AsRockВ BEEBOX N3150, but I finally decided to go with Intel NUC NUC5CPYH. There isВ one extra requirement though: it needed to be in the sub $200 budget because I only wanted it asВ Plex client, not server. So the search was on to find aВ hardware that would be able to fill those gaps.

No HD Audio (Dolby TrueHD and DTS-MA) passthrough when using PHT on Windows.

No gigabit ethernet port, only 100 Mbps.

I had to useВ Flirc USB to control it from my Logitech Harmony remote.

Even though it hadВ built-in IR receiver, there was no Windows driver for it.

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Its Quad Core Intel Atom processor were chokingВ to handle 1080p H.265 encoded videos.

No hardware acceleratedВ for HEVC (H.265) video format.

This means, I couldnвЂ™t install the next generation Plex Media Player which unfortunately requiredВ 64-bit MacOS or Windows.

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It could only be installed with 32-bit version of Windows (or any other ењ†4 based operating system) due to limited BIOS and drivers support.It had served its primary purpose well but I started to find some limitations from it: AВ little backgroundДЇor over a year, I had been using Minix Neo Z64 running Plex Home Theater as client to browse and play media library from my Plex Media Server on my TV. They no longer support booting from (micro) SD card, as shared by one of the readers.

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UPDATE October 21, 2017: Intel has released a newer generation of NUC series (identifier: NUC7XXXXX). UPDATE November 30, 2016: Plex Media Player is now available for all Plex users * Plex Media Player is currently only available for Plex Pass users. Plus the releaseВ of Plex Media Player* last year with Embedded Platform app. That perceptionВ have now changed with the HEVC hardware accelerated encoding support in the newer chipset generations. Plus you probably need to make some additional spending on Windows 8/10 for the operating system. Before modelsВ with Brasswell and Sky Lake chipsets however, I alwaysВ considered it as a big investment because you would need to grabВ one with i3, i5, or i7 processors to be sure it would be able to handle all media formats. The Intel NUC has been around for a while and considered as one of the bestВ kit to build an HTPC.

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