Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer

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that kit sounds great, its going to be torrent box / NAS.

Im happy watching media through my tv UI so i just need a low powered network storage solution that i can run all the time rather than leave my pc on.

i have an external HDD already that i ain't using and will get a hard drive enclosure of some kind at a later date to use my my internal drives, i have 3 or 4 to use. Would it be able to power something like that?


Looking through that site i see 4 different types of pre installed software!

which would i need?
 
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In terms of software...meh I dunno, I have a mini HP serving my files/downloading. :p

It probably won't power an external drive, you'll need a powered USB hub to do that from what I understand. I tried my WD Passport in the PI and it couldn't power up fully but I partly figured that'd be the case having read about some other USB devices not working due to lack of power.
 
April 1st is a terrible day for PC news sites, you get all sorts of dross. Which people will later quote as truth!
 
I was very tempted to hit buy on a Pi earlier with a HifiBerry DAC+ but the wifi dongle is out of stock at PiHut.

Does anyone have any real experience of other wifi adaptors available that I can buy without jumping up to £12ish for one?

Thanks. :)
 
uncle_rufus said:
Anybody see the April Fools announcement from the PiHut? Rpi model C already :p

It's a bit of a cruel one though as the specs would be amazing if only it were real :(
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Yes I was convinced, as my "Pi Hut" newsletter came after 12noon, which technically is the end of April Fool's in the UK. Deffo a cruel one, as I only just treated myself to a Pi 2.0 lol :p
 
I had to do a fresh install on my Pi, i could cry. I have now idea why it wouldnt work when i pasted my back up to the SD card. My task to set it all up again on the weekend i guess.
 
Quinnaay said:
I had to do a fresh install on my Pi, i could cry. I have now idea why it wouldnt work when i pasted my back up to the SD card. My task to set it all up again on the weekend i guess.
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When you do a backup use an image not just copying and pasting files as it will keep all the permissions and partitions set up properly then you can just reimage if you need to and it will be 100% back to how it was.
 
InvaderGIR said:
In terms of software...meh I dunno, I have a mini HP serving my files/downloading. :p

It probably won't power an external drive, you'll need a powered USB hub to do that from what I understand. I tried my WD Passport in the PI and it couldn't power up fully but I partly figured that'd be the case having read about some other USB devices not working due to lack of power.
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bought it all seperate in the end, pi 2 B/case/power/SD loaded with raspbian, came to £45.80
 
meandu229 said:
When you do a backup use an image not just copying and pasting files as it will keep all the permissions and partitions set up properly then you can just reimage if you need to and it will be 100% back to how it was.
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Thanks will do that infuture. Not impressed cant get the buffering sorted its driving me insane, ive tried loads of combinations for the Advancedsettings.xml and im hardwired with 150mb fiber optic broadband and cant stream a 720p film without buffer
 
Quinnaay said:
Thanks will do that infuture. Not impressed cant get the buffering sorted its driving me insane, ive tried loads of combinations for the Advancedsettings.xml and im hardwired with 150mb fiber optic broadband and cant stream a 720p film without buffer
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Use a local network file source preferably an NFS share.
Don't use wireless or powerline, use ethernet.
 
Well, this is my Pi 2 up & running.

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Its playing back Blade Runner MKV on the latest openelec build, with the file stored on the HD plugged into the caddy & the HDMI going through my AV Receiver & 1080p telly. I can confirm that it will NOT bitstream HD audio (Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Mstr) this is due to the Broadcom GPU hardware limitation. I've been doing a bit of digging around & it may be able to convert either to lossless PCM multi channel (I haven't worked out how to do this yet with the DTS-HD Mstr)

For the price, (55 quid for the pi, pibow case, psu, leads & 1 sd card) early impressions are :eek: I'm hoping that the HD audio bitstreaming will be resolved by the pi foundation in the next generation pi, even though that is not their intention. next thing to try is to find an OS with firefox so I can surf this forum without worrying about my leccy bill. :p
 
What you guys using these for? just HTPCS?

I was working on a Universal Remote for to automate my Cinmea Area. But got around to finishing it, can control the TV & Amp so far.
 
Grimley said:
Well, this is my Pi 2 up & running.



Its playing back Blade Runner MKV on the latest openelec build, with the file stored on the HD plugged into the caddy & the HDMI going through my AV Receiver & 1080p telly. I can confirm that it will NOT bitstream HD audio (Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Mstr) this is due to the Broadcom GPU hardware limitation. I've been doing a bit of digging around & it may be able to convert either to lossless PCM multi channel (I haven't worked out how to do this yet with the DTS-HD Mstr)

For the price, (55 quid for the pi, pibow case, psu, leads & 1 sd card) early impressions are :eek: I'm hoping that the HD audio bitstreaming will be resolved by the pi foundation in the next generation pi, even though that is not their intention. next thing to try is to find an OS with firefox so I can surf this forum without worrying about my leccy bill. :p
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Install one of the Milhouse nightly builds on the kodi forum. DTS MA and Dolby TrueHD are now supported. They arent passed through, they're decoded and outputted as lossless pcm.

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=211501

From buld 0323 DTS MA will work.

Here are the details:

"This update adds support for lossless 8 channel DTS-HD audio decode.

If you disable DTS passthough and set "Number of channels" to 7.1 you should now get lossless 8 channel audio with your DTS-HD videos.
Even with a 5.1 (or lower) setup, it will be decoding the lossless extensions, so should produce theoretically higher quality audio.

Obviously this is a new feature, so report back if there are any issues.

This makes use of the new dcadec (https://github.com/foo86/dcadec) library for DTS-HD decode.

There is a setting in video/acceleration to enable the DTS-HD audio decode. This defaults to enabled on Pi2 and disabled on Pi1, but you are free to change it.

Note: Old codec shows "fltp 1536 kb/s", new codec "s32p (24 bit)" (bitrate not shown), so you can distinguish them even when <=6 channels."
 
Trick said:
Install one of the Milhouse nightly builds on the kodi forum. DTS MA and Dolby TrueHD are now supported. They arent passed through, they're decoded and outputted as lossless pcm.
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Believe it or not that's the site where I found out about it. being relatively new to raspberry pi it will take me a while to find out what version of openelec I've installed & whether I can install a particular version of openelec onto a sd card manually. I did try it yesterday & true HD comes up as multi channel in but DTS HD comes up as normal DTS so I must be doing something right. I cant complain seeing as the Pi 2 only cost me £30. I spend more than that on 2 weeks fuel for my car.
 
was about to set this up and off to a great start!

plugged in the power supply and it blew straight away in my hand with a big flash and bang.

didnt have it plugged into the pi atleast
 
utajoker said:
was about to set this up and off to a great start!

plugged in the power supply and it blew straight away in my hand with a big flash and bang.

didnt have it plugged into the pi atleast
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Sorry to hear that... hope you weren't hurt at all.

Out of interest, was it an 'official' power supply, or a third party offering?
 
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