Nerds assemble! Raspberry pi close to launch date.

SKILL · 28 May 2012 at 22:51

badcompany said:
where are the links for xmbc port?

The two ways I know of getting it are:

http://openelec.tv/

or

http://www.raspbmc.com/

Both work for me, raspbmc is slightly easier/quicker, I think it is also slightly better in the menu's but still a bit sluggish when you've got the menu up whilst playing a video, but then I'm not hugely bothered by that even if it can't be 'fixed'.

Am liking it though, and with me moving in the next few weeks to a place where I can actually have a TV it's just about perfect timing

I'm tempted to sell my second one on ebay, fetching quite silly prices but not sure I want to rip people off, might sell it at cost to someone at work as well but not sure yet...

Christo · 28 May 2012 at 22:53

RomanNose said:
Keep saying that, I think that it's not going to improve for a while, demand is massive.

Oh dear, worried Ive done the wrong thing! Ah well it will save some late nights playing with it

topgun06 · 28 May 2012 at 23:03

Christo said:
Oh dear, worried Ive done the wrong thing! Ah well it will save some late nights playing with it

That's all part of the fun!

BiGT- · 28 May 2012 at 23:46

Anyone tried a large (7gb+) 1080p file?

How does this compare to a HP Mini 311c / Nvidia ION capabilities?

Dano · 29 May 2012 at 08:42

SKILL said:
There shouldn't be a password though, and even if I set one on my user account it doesn't want to log in, or as a guest account if I enable that, it's just windows being special, doesn't work windows 7 to windows 7 either with my housemates machine.

Did do some googling, few threads with the same problem but no resolution that worked for me so I gave up after half an hour or so and setup the vm to do it, which took all of 20 seconds and works fine

EDIT: Sorry for the OT anti-ms rant, I do hate it when that happens

You have turned off password protected sharing in the advanced sharing options right?

Cosimo · 29 May 2012 at 08:49

RomanNose said:
Debian- The most noob friendly, works right out the box
Arch- For those who don't like doing things the easy way
Raspdebian- For those who want a bit more work but want hardware floating point functionality.
Fedora-It just doesn't work lol.

Thanks for that.

SKILL · 29 May 2012 at 20:49

BiGT- said:
Anyone tried a large (7gb+) 1080p file?

How does this compare to a HP Mini 311c / Nvidia ION capabilities?

Not got anything that big, biggest I can find after a quick search is a 6172kbps 1080p which is 2.6Gb for 54 minutes, which plays fine

Not sure I'd ever bother with a higher quality file personally and most of the ones I've got are lower...

Dano said:
You have turned off password protected sharing in the advanced sharing options right?

Yep, the sharing tab in properties even says "People without a user account and password for this computer can access folders shared with everyone"

Except they can't, so security is exceptional if nothing else

InvaderGIR · 29 May 2012 at 21:13

SKILL said:
Yep, the sharing tab in properties even says "People without a user account and password for this computer can access folders shared with everyone"

Except they can't, so security is exceptional if nothing else

I've found that any computer can access my PC after a couple of reinstalls and no matter what I set my laptop to, nothing can access it, ever. I have done countless reinstalls of W7 on it and removed all security and it still won't let my PC access folders. Windows 7 is odd.

Ghosteh · 29 May 2012 at 21:19

Woo. Got the key so I could finally order today. Said it could take up to 4 weeks, but at least I've finally got my order in

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King85 · 30 May 2012 at 09:10

I'm on the list to get one now, whoop!

Anyone know if I will be able to use this to stream my NBA League Pass (flash) to my tv via this?

RomanNose · 30 May 2012 at 12:01

King85 said:
I'm on the list to get one now, whoop!

Anyone know if I will be able to use this to stream my NBA League Pass (flash) to my tv via this?

Flash is not usually good in general so I doubt it. And usually no hardware acceleration.

King85 · 30 May 2012 at 12:28

RomanNose said:
Flash is not usually good in general so I doubt it. And usually no hardware acceleration.

RomanNose · 10 Jun 2012 at 21:20

Have SqueezeSlave and wow it works really well and audio is suprisngly good.
You could get loads of pi's around the house running speakers, and you have very cheap home audio.
There is also a distribution called squeezeplug, which is quite nice and includes the server but I am running the server off my more beefy nas.
Also you can use soft squeeze to control it, it's quite a powerful program and best of all it's free

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King85 · 17 Jun 2012 at 11:09

How are people finding these after a few weeks of use?

Cosimo · 19 Jun 2012 at 18:37

An alternative, Gooseberry is going to arrive:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/19/gooseberry-android-board-plans-to-sate-those-still-waiting-on-a/

RomanNose · 19 Jun 2012 at 18:38

simulatorman said:
An alternative, Gooseberry is going to arrive:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/19/gooseberry-android-board-plans-to-sate-those-still-waiting-on-a/

I wouldn't call it an alternative, android is more for consumerism.

RomanNose · 28 Jun 2012 at 22:56

I am finding raspbian much better than the debian release so far.
X11 forwarding is working fine so that's nice

But it's really minimal, it didn't even have make :O.

RomanNose · 29 Jun 2012 at 23:01

http://fishpi.org/proof.html
This is a neat idea.

Wizardskills · 29 Jun 2012 at 23:47

Mine arrived today \o/.

What power supplies are you guys using? I have tried a Samsung phone charger (0.7mA) and I don't think it is supplying enough juice as I'm getting the "mmc0 timeout waiting for hardware interrupt" error on boot up.

Longbow · 30 Jun 2012 at 08:57

Using a 4.9v 0.6mA one here.

You could have a duff SD card, or it's not fully in the slot.