artyom

Sounds like a job for XMPP

This is way overkill for these applications. A low end mobile Intel processor will do all these things well and use much less power.

Glinet

Missed opportunity there.

HDDs are plenty fast enough to play movies. It sounds like you have another problem.

I don’t know that anyone has collected any sort of data on reliability. I have a CWWK board that’s been working well for about a year now.

Actual Budget

Maybe not.