Soldato
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Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer
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Caporegime
These aren't just available to anyone are they?
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Caporegime
No special requirements to meet then? Cool.
Soldato
Got one today, installed raspbmc and it's working fantasticly - playing every video I am throwing at it, ones with codecs which my Apple TV struggled with under xbmc as well. Not found one video that has a problem. The only 'issue' is that if you go into the menus while a video is playing then it will probably cut out a bit, this is solved by pausing the video if you want to mess in the menus. Really pleased so far and will definitely be sticking one of these behind the TV to replace the Apple TV 2 and the nettop I use downstairs.
Incidently I had a few issues with the SD card at first and some other distributions, it's a Samsung 32GB class 10 'essential' SD card. Worked fine with raspbmc though (dd an image to prepare the card and it installs from there).
Heres a video of it booting:
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1&feature=vm&video_id=2PI5DK8z1Co
Airplay in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMBMjmnVWJ4
Incidently I had a few issues with the SD card at first and some other distributions, it's a Samsung 32GB class 10 'essential' SD card. Worked fine with raspbmc though (dd an image to prepare the card and it installs from there).
Heres a video of it booting:
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1&feature=vm&video_id=2PI5DK8z1Co
Airplay in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMBMjmnVWJ4
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Soldato
Shall get this today \o/ still waiting on sd card (few posts back for class 10 one) But still might get another at work to tide me over.
Need a project or something as ill have no internet for 3 weeks (moving flat on Sun)
Need a project or something as ill have no internet for 3 weeks (moving flat on Sun)
Soldato
Got it today! Cool bit of kit.
anyone know any good remote controls for this? Using my phone is ok but would really like a proper remote but, i dislike infrared remotes. My old popcorn media player had a RF remote which was fantastic are there any similar non infrared remotes that can be used with this?
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Shall get this today \o/ still waiting on sd card (few posts back for class 10 one) But still might get another at work to tide me over.
Need a project or something as ill have no internet for 3 weeks (moving flat on Sun)
Can you tether your phone to your PC, pad etc using your mobile internet ?
Kenneth.
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Soldato
Another bit of great news for me about the Pi is that the USB on my Samsung TV seems to power it fine, so thats one less power cable to worry about and much more self containment. This is much better than I thought.
Soldato
This really is the gift that keeps on giving. I noticed on my Samsung TV that it say the Pi is an Anynet+ capable device. This means that you can use HDMI CEC to control the Pi via your TV remote! Just need to build support into my system now and then it's sorted - a few have got it working on the Raspbmc forums. A job for the next day or so when I get time.
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Last time I checked there wasn't an HDMI-CEC driver available for the chipset, so we're out of luck there unfortunately.I wish I wasn't such a noob, there are a couple of things I know are possible that I want to do but don't know enough to get it done
Namely hdmi-cec and spotyxbmc2 in raspbmc.
If anyone feels like spoon feeding a noob it would be much appreciated lol
Probably a waste of time, the CPU is comparable to a Pentium 2 so you'd be better off running for a half hour per day on a modern machine...MP4 said:
Soldato
I dont have a wifi dongle to pick up the tether connection
Q are you the Kenneth from old school UKTFR?
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You can tether using usb cable as well , sorry team fortress nope not me, although was in a clan for quake ctf long time ago clan was not mine he was from Manchester who ran the clan.
Kenneth
although I play Battlefield 3 a lot and not in clan
Kenneth
although I play Battlefield 3 a lot and not in clan
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Soldato
I wish I wasn't such a noob, there are a couple of things I know are possible that I want to do but don't know enough to get it done
Namely hdmi-cec and spotyxbmc2 in raspbmc.
If anyone feels like spoon feeding a noob it would be much appreciated lol
If I have time to get it done before it appears in a release then I'll create an image for you.
Soldato
Sigh, after all that
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I wish I wasn't such a noob, there are a couple of things I know are possible that I want to do but don't know enough to get it done
Namely hdmi-cec and spotyxbmc2 in raspbmc.
If anyone feels like spoon feeding a noob it would be much appreciated lol
I've yet to get spotify working properly yet, it keeps crashing
But the latest build of openelec does have hdmi-cec control and it worked just fine with my samsung TV.