Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer

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Excellent! I'd seen a few mentions of people wanting to use wireless mice and keyboards with the Pi, but no comments on whether they actually worked.
 
sjt269 said:
Excellent! I'd seen a few mentions of people wanting to use wireless mice and keyboards with the Pi, but no comments on whether they actually worked.
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I looked at the compatible list before I purchased it, and as far as i know works with both Xbmc & Debian

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What hub & Wi-Fi dongle is everyone using?
 
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Evilpaul said:
I've just tested some network copying speeds on my RPi, this is after fixing the half broken networking on my self-built Raspbian image.
Copying a ~300MB file from Samba share to SD Card or external USB stick gave a constant transfer of 2.0-2.2MBps.

Are the files I tried to copy representative of your tests (size-wise)?
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Size wise, it is pretty much identical. I copied a folder with a few music albums in. Maybe I should update to the newest raspbian image, I think mine is about a week old is a new one out yet?
 
Harvey616 said:
Size wise, it is pretty much identical. I copied a folder with a few music albums in. Maybe I should update to the newest raspbian image, I think mine is about a week old is a new one out yet?
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Shouldn't need to write a new image, just update your existing system (providing you have net access on the RPi).

Open a terminal window and type the following:
Code: 
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
 
Those who ordered from Farnell, did you get a confirmation e-mail directly after ordering? I haven't had anything since ordering last night, and it doesn't look like any money has come off my credit card either, so I'm wondering if the order hasn't gone through.
 
sjt269 said:
Those who ordered from Farnell, did you get a confirmation e-mail directly after ordering? I haven't had anything since ordering last night, and it doesn't look like any money has come off my credit card either, so I'm wondering if the order hasn't gone through.
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When I placed my order with Farnell I got a 'thank you for your order' email. They don't take your money at the time of the order which is why it may not show up on your card, they take the money at the time of shipment. In my case I ordered on July 2nd (had already put my name down with farnell as interested in the raspberry pi long before that) and it was shipped/payed for on July 23rd.
 
Bossk128 said:
I canceled my RS order after having second thoughts about how powerful a media client it would be. The email I received after wards reads:

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We are sorry you have decided to cancel your Raspberry Pi order with RS Components & Allied Electronics.
We confirm your cancellation is now underway and refunds will be processed within 14 working days.
Customer Details
First Name: Bilbo
Surname: Baggins
E-Mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 123456789

Online order reference no: 00100101110100
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Seems a pretty decent email to me, they should honour the cancel.
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How long did it actually end up taking to get the money back into your account?
 
Shall be trying Sbnc software on it soon ill have to re arrange it around to stay on 24-7

anyone have advice about irc bouncers and coding etc?
 
Mp4 said:
Shall be trying Sbnc software on it soon ill have to re arrange it around to stay on 24-7

anyone have advice about irc bouncers and coding etc?
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I don't know much about installing IRC bouncers or configuring them, but what I'm going to do is just install irssi on it (which is a lightweight linux IRC client), and then I can just access it from wherever by SSHing into the raspberry pi.
 
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Dist said:
I don't know much about installing IRC bouncers or configuring them, but what I'm going to do is just install irssi on it (which is a lightweight linux IRC client), and then I can just access it from wherever by SSHing into the raspberry pi.
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Might be another idea :D i could just run scripts off the irc client side too.

I installed Putty on Win7 and managed to get in to the pi but i've no idea what to do with commands etc. All new to me. (using Debian Wheezy) and the GUI doesnt load in putty so think its fail already :D

& anyway to remote from win7 to pi? (pi is connected to 50"plasma and cant use pi when wife is watching tv) :P
 
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Dist said:
When I placed my order with Farnell I got a 'thank you for your order' email. They don't take your money at the time of the order which is why it may not show up on your card, they take the money at the time of shipment. In my case I ordered on July 2nd (had already put my name down with farnell as interested in the raspberry pi long before that) and it was shipped/payed for on July 23rd.
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Re-ordered it just now and it's gone through fine, I'm not sure what happened the first time round. Now it's a race between Farnell and RS to see who can dispatch first.
 
Ok, so finally got some time to get around to playing with my pi.

Just want to check a few things basically.

So plan is, one Pi, two SD cards, powered USB hub, External HDD USB (powered by the hub).

I'll switch the SD cards in and out at will, but one will hold RasbMC, and one the latest version of Debian basically....

RasbMC just as a media streamer, anyone got a supported file type version? Can't seem to find one myself :(

Debian will be social media when I don't really need something better, and something for a fun bit of programming.. Will buy a second pi if I find I'm switching quite a lot, but for now, don't need to as I see it...

Recommended SD cards? (size/speed...)

Might actually try and run Android 4.0 in conjunction with my 23" touch screen as well... could be... interesting...

kd
 
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Mp4 said:
I looked at the compatible list before I purchased it, and as far as i know works with both Xbmc & Debian

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What hub & Wi-Fi dongle is everyone using?
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I Have two off these;

7 PORT MAINS USB 2.0 BUS POWERED HUB AC ADAPTER PC LAPTOP

from the bay, 3.95 each.


Kenneth.
 
Damn raspbmc has screwed up, looks like I'm going to have to take out the sd card and format it and start from scratch.

It was working fine but then seemed to crashed (was still playing the music track I selected, but my android app couldn't connect to it any more). I powered it off and back on again and during the boot process it decided to do an update. While the blue screen with grey text box was doing it's update thing I changed back to my cable box to watch some tv. A few min later I come back to the Pi and only get a black screen with a single line of text about 'procps (stopped) terminated with error status 255' or something like that.

I've tried powering off/on but it always goes back to that black screen with the procps terminated thing and doesn't seem to get passed it (I've given it a few min).

Not sure what's caused it but now it seems I have to start all over from scratch and reconfigure EVERYTHING again :(
 
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