Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer

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Can someone point to the easiest way to get a pi media centre please. Also, do I need to connect a HDD with my content to the Pi, or can XBMC on it stream from my main PC wirelessly?

Also, has anyone had any luck getting a Logitech universal remote to work with it?
 
Very simple. Get a 4gb sd card and put raspbmc on it. It can stream over a network just fine. Just dint use any fancy skins with xbmc as that can slow navigating menus down etc.
 
robfosters said:
Can someone point to the easiest way to get a pi media centre please. Also, do I need to connect a HDD with my content to the Pi, or can XBMC on it stream from my main PC wirelessly?

Also, has anyone had any luck getting a Logitech universal remote to work with it?
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As has been said, RaspBMC is probably the easiest route and works brilliantly IMO.

You can connect through ethernet or wirelessly (recommendations as to compatible wireless cards will be on this thread).

Not sure about the logitech remotes but the 'standard' windows media centre infared remotes/receiver works brilliantly from my experience.
 
robfosters said:
Can someone point to the easiest way to get a pi media centre please. Also, do I need to connect a HDD with my content to the Pi, or can XBMC on it stream from my main PC wirelessly?

Also, has anyone had any luck getting a Logitech universal remote to work with it?
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As said

Raspbmc install
Buy a generic windows media remote. Ditch the remote and use the logitech.

Streaming without wires will be complete fail. So hardwire the PI instead.
 
You can also use your tv remote too. That if your tv supports cec (or something similar ) over hdmi.
 
Pretty tempted to grab one of these. Is it reasonably easy to do the following, using Raspbmc?

Install Spotify and output to speakers. Use an ipad as a headless screen so I can control Spotify without having to turn the TV on, and also have it connected to the TV to watch films, using the ipad as a remote?

Thanks!

Edit: oh, and is Netflix compatible?
 
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manic111 said:
Pretty tempted to grab one of these. Is it reasonably easy to do the following, using Raspbmc?

Install Spotify and output to speakers. Use an ipad as a headless screen so I can control Spotify without having to turn the TV on, and also have it connected to the TV to watch films, using the ipad as a remote?

Thanks!

Edit: oh, and is Netflix compatible?
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From what I've read the onboard audio is pretty poor. People that are doing spotify / airplay are adding a USB audio device.
 
manic111 said:
Edit: oh, and is Netflix compatible?
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No, not until Microsoft releases Silverlight for Linux - highly unlikely; or Netflix switches to HTML5 - likely but not for a while until DRM is added to HTML5 and even then it might cause issues for media centre plugins.

Same for LoveFilm etc


manic111 said:
Cheers. In terms of software though, is what I'm looking to do possible and reasonably easy?
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Have a look around as i have a feeling someone has created a Spotify streaming 'system' (app/OS) for RPI's. You need a Spotify Pro/Prem account though.

Edit - Look at Pi Musicbox.
 
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Thanks a lot, I'm mostly planning on using it for music anyway, so Netflix isn't the end of the world, I can get that through the PS3. Might be a nice little project for me :)
 
Thinking of getting a Pi and a USB hub to use as an access server for my Cisco kit, and possibly as a syslog/NTP server if it doesn't have any problems running those.

Are there any small, reasonably priced screens that work well with the Pi? I just want something that will work without too much hassle, anything from 4" to 10" I guess.

Ta
 
kalvindeane said:
Thinking of getting a Pi and a USB hub to use as an access server for my Cisco kit, and possibly as a syslog/NTP server if it doesn't have any problems running those.

Are there any small, reasonably priced screens that work well with the Pi? I just want something that will work without too much hassle, anything from 4" to 10" I guess.

Ta
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Android tablet via VNC?
 
I was just looking into that earlier. :)

I have seen a few people online saying that they found using RDP less resource intensive than VNC, will look into both when I get a Pi. :)
 
I have a good setup and willing to share some info. I use a HP mServer nl40 that DLS torents and newsnet.

I got 1080p working. got 2 remotes I wanna sort some imgs out.

8GB class 6-10

feel free toadd/chat
 
Tony Williams said:
I have a good setup and willing to share some info. I use a HP mServer nl40 that DLS torents and newsnet.

I got 1080p working. got 2 remotes I wanna sort some imgs out.

8GB class 6-10

feel free toadd/chat
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Look at this guy! How did you get 1080p working, what player did you use?

Is there an Android variant working on this, you could use Splashtop as a remote server in that case and it's strong enough to stream games with barely any lag.
 
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