Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer

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Semple said:
Got my Raspi today :D. Was supposed to be delivered next week but it seemed to come early.

I'm finding it a nightmare to find a case for it. What's everyone using to hold the thing?
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Snap!

Mine came yesterday too. I Currently don't have a case. I'm tempted to try to mount it inside my television.
 
I signed up to be put on the queue the very first day the pis went on 'sale' but I haven't received any confirmation or notification. Should I have at this stage?
 
I managed to get my Pi in the very first Farnell shipment and have spent my time doing the following:

Week 1) Trying to get ALSA drivers to work (sound didn't work properly at this point)
Week 2) Getting to vlc to play an internet radio station (ALSA sound was fixed), compiling the hello_video example, set up shairport to use Pi as an AirPort Express device
Week 3+) Building/compiling the OpenELEC version of xbmc, trying to build a version for Debian (but failed to so do thus far) playing Quake 3 and generally getting more familar with linux and the educational/programming tools in the Debian image

Has anyone else that's got a Pi started on any fun or exciting projects? I'm looking at new things to try out on the Pi.
 
1) Got openelec working (the cheaty way - downloading the image instead of compiling it)

2) Watching the first season of game of thrones streamed off my media server

:D

I'll do something more useful with it at some point

EDIT - is ALSA working properly now?
 
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With the debian build 19-04-2012 it works. Or at least works well enough that I could stream internet radio and mp3s without any problems or jumps.

You'll probably need to run before trying to play audio:

Code: 
sudo modprobe snd-bcm2835
 
Got my Pi today, and had the debian image up and running in fairly short order.
After that I tried out a couple of the openelec XBMC images, but I'm getting constant hangs when trying to do network access to my NAS.
 
Evilpaul said:
Got my Pi today, and had the debian image up and running in fairly short order.
After that I tried out a couple of the openelec XBMC images, but I'm getting constant hangs when trying to do network access to my NAS.
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Is this trying to decode AC3 or DTS sound on the Pi?
 
It's whenever it tries to access the network for anything (i.e. indexing movie information).

Network performance in debian was fine, and playback from USB in XBMC was excellent. Hopefully it's just something stupid about the NAS configuration that is causing issues.
I suspect it might be due to the SAMBA configuration on my NAS, as it's quite old now and not the quickest. I'll try configuring NFS tomorrow as it should give better performance.
 
Are you connecting by IP address or hostname? I had some issues resolving my hostname but IP worked fine.

I settled on using upnp to stream stuff as it "just worked".
 
I was using the default SAMBA shares, so just selecting the named device under the Browse->SAMBA selection in XBMC.

I'll try configuring NFS first to see if that is better, otherwise I'll have to look into configuring TwonkyMedia again :/
 
Twonky is built into my NAS firmware but it looked a complete pain to configure, so I turned it all off. Maybe now is the time to try and learn how to configure it?
 
Turned out that all the lockups were due to the version of XBMC I was using. Looks like the bleeding edge versions have some bleeding edges....
Going back to build 10710 and things are a lot better, although I have had 2 reboots so far.
 
I had the same issue as masterluke on mine. Scanning for samba shares just didn't work at all, and trying to connect to my server by host name failed as well. I ended up having to manually connect by 'smb://IPADDRESS/share' which then worked great.

Has anyone else experienced a blank screen on MKV playback?

The GUI is still present and the timer is ticking up as if the file is playing but no audio/video. Very strange.
 
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