Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer

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finally started playing with my pi... setup for far
remote ssh
remote desktop
vlc
bittorrent and web server
external usb HDD

has anyone got a wifi dongle working? my old school buffalo airstation doesn't seem to be supported at the moment
and scummvm wont load at all... prob cos of all the junk I got loaded in memory.. lol
 
Well i finally have xbmc running and it looks very slick considering I how small this thing is. What methods of remote control do people recommended for this because the wife doesn't like using the USB mouse/keyboard (and they look **** hanging next to the TV in the sitting room?
We've tried the remote apps for iPad and android devices, but would be nice to have a 'proper' remote.
Any ideas?
 
CEC over HDMI is awesome! (As long as your telly supports it)

It means you just use your normal TV remote and the commands get passed through to XBMC instead.
 
Need a little help here - finally found time to play with the Pi again (oh the wonders of being newly single) and I'm having trouble with it. I've got it plugged into my router via a network cable, and I've downloaded PuTTY onto my main PC. I can SSH into the Pi, login, and then I'm asked to use 'startx' to start a graphical session. I type it, and then nothing seems to happen.

What's supposed to happen when I type that? I was envisioning having the Pi running in a kind of remote desktop mode, controlled from the PC, but that's not what's happened. How do I set that up?

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I've got Raspbian on the SD card, works fine when I plug the Pi straight into a screen.
 
The X website doesn't seem to be working right, but I've downloaded what I think is the same thing from elsewhere. It just seems to be running in the background though, and doesn't do anything.

I'll look into it more another time, it was just a passing flight of fancy that I could control the Pi from afar and use it for a few menial tasks.

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I take it back, found a much easier tutorial that told me I'd done almost all I needed to do, I just hadn't check a box to enable X11 forwarding. All working. :)
 
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Finally got mine doing exactly what I wanted - running headless, stripped out the gui to save on resources and running sickbeard, sabnzbd & couch potato. Finally set up samba so can access this across the network. However, I know others have been playing with squeezeplug etc. is there anyway to run a squeezeserver on this? Just a command line version? I have a number of squeezeboxes and it's annoying having to leave my Mac on to use them. I've been trawling the pi forums and a few google results but everyone seems to using them AS squeezeboxes, rather than feeding them :/
 
Longbow said:
Seems Xbian are stealing code from Raspbmc...

http://www.raspbmc.com/2012/09/xbian-code-theft/
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Read the article - such bad form!

Out of interest, what power supplies are people using for their Pi's? I made the mistake of buying one when RS were doing their first run of bundles and has a 2pin plug which is impractical for me.

I know 1A /5v is a good start but with all the overclocking threads doing the rounds I'd like something with a bit of headroom.
 
interesting thread, i'm planning on getting one of these via Amazon (they seem to have little wait time which is the main reason - I want it early next week) and putting raspbmc on it.

Planning on getting 2 SD Cards (one with raspbmc on and another to just mess around on) is WiFi easy to setup on raspbmc? apparently I can do it via network manager? what adapters do people use here? was it easy to setup?

Cheers.
 
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boxman2000 said:
Read the article - such bad form!

Out of interest, what power supplies are people using for their Pi's? I made the mistake of buying one when RS were doing their first run of bundles and has a 2pin plug which is impractical for me.

I know 1A /5v is a good start but with all the overclocking threads doing the rounds I'd like something with a bit of headroom.
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Nokia AC-10X
 
Brummies said:
interesting thread, i'm planning on getting one of these via Amazon (they seem to have little wait time which is the main reason - I want it early next week) and putting raspbmc on it.

Planning on getting 2 SD Cards (one with raspbmc on and another to just mess around on) is WiFi easy to setup on raspbmc? apparently I can do it via network manager? what adapters do people use here? was it easy to setup?

Cheers.
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http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/displayProduct.jsp?sku=2081185&CMP=e-2072-00001000&gross_price=true

These were available today for free next working day delivery.

Despatched within 30 min (most people got the despatch email within 15 min) and no extra charges.

I think the whole stock has gone by now.
 
guys if you need to run the gui on the raspberry pi you need to install a remote desktop program. Some people use VNC; but I think that's dirty even thou I'm a mac user, I prefer to use RDP like windows to remote on. To install it on your pi type.

Code: 
sudo apt-get install xrpd

That will install rdp on the pi, and you can just use remote desktop on windows/mac to access the pi.
 
slinxy said:
you need to install a remote desktop program.
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VNC or RDP make remote desktop simpler to configure, but there is a performance cost to using them.
It is possible to run X apps remotely, but it is more difficult to configure, and has less of an overhead when compared to the above two protocols.
 
Evilpaul said:
VNC or RDP make remote desktop simpler to configure, but there is a performance cost to using them.
It is possible to run X apps remotely, but it is more difficult to configure, and has less of an overhead when compared to the above two protocols.
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True... in my personal case, its easier for me to config the pi with a protocol that every machine has than it is for me to install putty on every windows machine, and config the pi to allow access.
 
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