Rasberry Pi

[Zirax]

Anyone tempted to get this?
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/r...5-pc-20111115/

Running quake 3
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/106

Now you could either make this into a download box, an intelligent network storage box or just something to tinker with. At $25 (pre uk markup) I'm tempted to get one and tinker.

[Rich_L]

Yeah! It looks awesome, such a cool little project

[Dymetrie]

Mine was delivered at the weekend and now I have an HDMI cable I've installed Raspbmc and am playing around with it. Have managed to get it running and playing video files as well as streaming from iPlayer, ITV Player and 4OD

Hopefully this will be able to replace my old Shuttle based media centre as it's much smaller, much lower power, and silent!

[SidewinderINC]

how much of a nerd do you have to be to get one of these bad boys running? looks like it could be a good thing to have my terra's attached to rather than the PS3 for streaming media to the TV.

[Dymetrie]

You do realise that this was designed for school kids to learn programming, yes?

In other words, it's nice and simple

[SidewinderINC]

Originally Posted by Dymetrie

You do realise that this was designed for school kids to learn programming, yes?

In other words, it's nice and simple

I had read something along those lines, excellent.

what I would love is something that I could just turn on, it boots up and then I have access to it via the network so I can dump stuff on it from the laptop and watch it via the TV (which can read from media servers on a network)

I would need to be able to plug in my pair of 2Tb drives somehow, and you already say you've plugged an HDMI cable into it

[Dymetrie]

Originally Posted by SidewinderINC

I had read something along those lines, excellent.

what I would love is something that I could just turn on, it boots up and then I have access to it via the network so I can dump stuff on it from the laptop and watch it via the TV (which can read from media servers on a network)

I would need to be able to plug in my pair of 2Tb drives somehow, and you already say you've plugged an HDMI cable into it

This is mine, at the moment:



I need to sort out a case of some kind (might get a printed one, or print a card one) and swap the keyboard and mouse for an IR remote and a USB HDD.

What would be best for you is a NAS (for your drives, this is the one that Garp recommended for me and I will be wanting to buy when I have the available funds Synology) which can be accessed by either your computer, or the Pi (it's really easy to add network folders and stuff to your library).

For now, I'll be using a USB HDD enclosure, which will have the 1TB drive from my current media box. To get files on it then I'll probably just unplug it from the Pi! and plug it into my PC. Obviously, everything gets much more streamlined once I have/can afford a NAS (possibly by selling my mini 9 and the shuttle).

I'm hoping to use an MCE remote (haven't tested it yet, but am going to do that today, so expect an edit later, but the developer of Raspmc posted this, today, "The next release should support every remote out there" which is promising ) which can be picked up on eBay quite cheaply. There are also apps (the best of which is allegedly XBMC Commander on iOS) to control XBMC, which work with Raspbmc (obviously!).

With this setup then you'd be using the Pi as a media centre and so won't have to put up with the dodgy menu system on your TV. Plus it looks fancy and you get extra tweaks and things, such as catch up TV (so far I have iPlayer and ITV Player working, 4OD is being temperamental but that's par for the course with that pile of poo anyway! Happy to post up links and whatnot for the various add-on files if you forget how to google ).

So far I'm incredibly impressed with this little machine and I find it likely that, given the incredibly low cost, once I have my media centre up and running happily I may well buy a second one and actually learn linux properly (which would make Garp happy, after he's answered all my stupid questions)

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by SidewinderINC

I had read something along those lines, excellent.

what I would love is something that I could just turn on, it boots up and then I have access to it via the network so I can dump stuff on it from the laptop and watch it via the TV (which can read from media servers on a network)

I would need to be able to plug in my pair of 2Tb drives somehow, and you already say you've plugged an HDMI cable into it

Have you considered a jailbroken Apple TV?

[Feek]

Have you seen the price of the second hand Apple TV2s?

I bought mine initially for £70 and sold it a couple of weeks ago on eBay for £165! With the money, I bought myself an Apple TV3 from eBay for £82 and the rest was a nice profit.

The ATV3 can't be jailbroken and as all my media is in iTunes, I have no need for a jailbreak so I'm quids in and I have an upgraded box.

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by Feek

The ATV3 hasn't been jailbroken yet.

Fixed for greater accuracy ;-)