I have about $1500 left in the budget. So it's a biggest bang for the buck.
As for epyc, that's just personal preference a but would certainly be open to other alternatives if I can get bigger bang for the buck. My thinking with epyc is the load of 16 rooms each pulling from the plex server and the VMs obviously.
With the transcoding and HDHomeRun/DVR/Plex, was exactly the way I was thinking of going.
As for thin clients, probably should correct myself. The boxes are not specifically android. They are mini pc's so my intention was to take android off, go thin client route with them and install plex app on whatever OS we are going to use.
Not much experience in setting up thin client to access unraid VM's, any recommendation on a guide for that?