Raspberry pi

[liverpoolsno9]

I just mentioned this in another thread but thought this deserved a thread of its own. Picked 1 up before Xmas for £32. Was looking into getting an Apple TV but this seems to do everything the Apple does. Xbmc being the main reason, live streaming footy onto your tv, stream anything you like, TV, film, sports. Even get the Sky channels through it. Also access media folders from your PC through it. There's also an app for it to use your phone as the remote. Best £32 I've spent. Here's a better explanation.

 

Raspberry Pi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[coop]

Thinking of getting one of these myself for the reason you posted above.

 

Did you buy online direct from them.

[bigguly]

I'm thinking of buying one myself! Did you buy the licences as well, that they offered?

[Melchett]

Thinking of getting one of these myself for the reason you posted above.

 

Did you buy online direct from them.

 

They're sold in Maplin, I saw one advertised in the Aintree store.

[danielbritt]

is it fast enough CPU and memory wise to stream a HD signal from a USB3 hard drive?

[coop]

They're sold in Maplin, I saw one advertised in the Aintree store.

 

Cheers Darling, will have a look.

[liverpoolsno9]

I got mine from here

 

Raspberry Pi | Available from CPC | CPC

 

I believe it's good enough for hd if you buy the addon, about £3 I think, but my Internet speed is awful (1 fuckin meg!)so all my downloaded stuff is in SD. You will need to buy an SD card with it, as this will act as its hard drive, upto 16gb. Wouldn't be bothered buying the starter kit in Maplin for £75 though. It's powered by USB, so you'll need a USB source close by or use your iPhone 3 pin plug. Get the Xbmc app from App Store & away you go, you will need a USB keyboard for 2 minutes whilst you configure the settings. I just unhooked mine from my PC.

 

Have a look here for a fool proof way of setting up

 

How to turn your Raspberry Pi into an XBMC media centre | Reviews | CNET UK

Piece of piss.

[cloggypop]

Ordered one myself from here.

 

http://raspberrypi.rsdelivers.com/default.aspx?cl=1

 

Worth it at that price for something to play with .

[Melchett]

I just mentioned this in another thread but thought this deserved a thread of its own. Picked 1 up before Xmas for £32. Was looking into getting an Apple TV but this seems to do everything the Apple does. Xbmc being the main reason, live streaming footy onto your tv, stream anything you like, TV, film, sports. Even get the Sky channels through it. Also access media folders from your PC through it. There's also an app for it to use your phone as the remote. Best £32 I've spent. Here's a better explanation.

 

Raspberry Pi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

I've only gone and bought one!

 

I've installed xbmc on it & added BBCi, ITV

4OD & 5OnDemand to it. I've had a quick look but cant seem to find where you get the footy or movie streams. If you could link me to the addons for the streams I'd be eternally grateful & come the day I come to power I'll use plenty of lube on you.

PM me if its a bit naughty to send the links ta.

 

XXX

[Brownie]

 

I've only gone and bought one!

 

I've installed xbmc on it & added BBCi' date=' ITV

4OD & 5OnDemand to it. I've had a quick look but cant seem to find where you get the footy or movie streams. If you could link me to the addons for the streams I'd be eternally grateful & come the day I come to power I'll use plenty of lube on you.

PM me if its a bit naughty to send the links ta.

 

XXX[/quote']

 

Good work!

 

Just google Xbmc Hub - it's a dedicated website for add ons etc so you'll find loads of info on there. They do a download where it installs Xbmc from fresh but includes loads of add ons.

 

The sports add on you want is Sports Devil and for movies you want Ice Films and 1Channel.

[chauncey]

I've got two of these suckers, one for raping media and the other for coding and generally fucking about with.

[liverpoolsno9]

As Brownie says, although I can't get Icefilms to work, apparently it's been a bit shite since Megaupload closed down. 1channel & project free tv for TV & film, also navix for Sky streams, navix only seems to work for me if I navigate to the 'most viewed 24 hours' folder, but everything you want will be in there, loads of porn too. I've found Sports devil to be the best for the Footy streams. If you go to http://liveonsat.com & were on live on Espn or foxsports in US, navix has good streams for these channels.

 

XBMC HUB FORUMS

[john23liverpool]

Do these pick up wifi or do you have to plug an Ethernet cable in?

[Melchett]

Yeah it works with wifi, but seems to be quite picky as to which dongle it'll see, I chickened out & bought the starter pack from Maplin that comes with one.

[john23liverpool]

Oh right, ill have to buy a dongle then. Which dongle do you have mate? So I know which one works. I can't bring myself to go to maplin they're robbing bastards.

[coop]

Due to the low memory and processor I'm surprised these don't run really slow.

 

Lets be honest if you had a normal desktop that only had 512mb of memory and a 1ghz processor you would throw it in the bin.

 

What makes these able to run so smoothly, is it because your not booting into windows.

[Melchett]

Oh right' date=' ill have to buy a dongle then. Which dongle do you have mate? So I know which one works. I can't bring myself to go to maplin they're robbing bastards.[/quote']

 

Don't know, the one that came in the starter pack is unbranded, I only know of the conflicts through browsing the forum mentioned earlier in the thread.

[Melchett]

Due to the low memory and processor I'm surprised these don't run really slow.

 

Lets be honest if you had a normal desktop that only had 512mb of memory and a 1ghz processor you would throw it in the bin.

 

What makes these able to run so smoothly' date=' is it because your not booting into windows.[/quote']

 

Yeah, the raspberry/Xbmc operating systems are probably the equivalent (if not lesser) processor/power hungry than Windows 95.

[coop]

Yeah, the raspberry/Xbmc operating systems are probably the equivalent (if not lesser) processor/power hungry than Windows 95.

 

So if thats the case then any SFF pc should run XBMC.

 

I can remember in the past trying it out on an old dell SFF i had but the videos buffered like hell.

 

It was running XP at the time so when or not i should have used Linux and booted straight into XBMC i don't know.

[bigguly]

So if thats the case then any SFF pc should run XBMC.

 

I can remember in the past trying it out on an old dell SFF i had but the videos buffered like hell.

 

It was running XP at the time so when or not i should have used Linux and booted straight into XBMC i don't know.

 

Coop - the Pi has a decent video graphics chip in it, that's why you can watch 720P videos on it really smoothly. 1080P video, especially Blu-Ray is a bit jerky from the Youtube video's I've seen.

[coop]

Cheers, would explain why the Dell SFF ran shit as it only had 512mb of Ram and onboard graphics.

[Red Phoenix]

Got to the 3rd page on this forum and was just about to leave, glad to see a thread! Am going to get into bitcoin I think and am planning on getting one to store an offline wallet on to make it safe, but there's clearly tons of other stuff to get into. Have never thought of streaming anything through it as I want mine offline, but will probably get another if the 1st one I get is decent.

 

Another main thing is learning linux, have never used it and have wanted to for quite a while, so that could also be great. Am also into the idea of making one or more into some of the several different things you can make out of them, but that will have to come later on if I learn how to use it properly.

[VladimirIlyich]

Im very interested in this myself. Mainly for the footy streams and films and telly stuff too.

Do i simply plug one end into my laptop via the usb slot and then use a hdmi cable from telly to RPI? And how do i use the internet then?

[Red Phoenix]

Im very interested in this myself. Mainly for the footy streams and films and telly stuff too.

Do i simply plug one end into my laptop via the usb slot and then use a hdmi cable from telly to RPI? And how do i use the internet then?

 

Not sure if you can do that? Am about to get one shortly off amazon or ebay, but as far as I know it works as a standalone computer. Am using the 2 USB slots for keyboard + mouse, and it also has an ethernet slot so you just plug into a modem/router like you would a pc/laptop. To get it started the only way I know of so far is that you download a linux OS for it onto your pc/laptop then add it to an SD drive, then transfer it over to the Pi via its own SD card slot. (and yep, TV to Pi with a HDMI lead.)

 

It might work in the way you're thinking but I've no idea of that at the moment so hopefully someone else will correct me if I'm wrong.

[Red Phoenix]

Vladimir : you can use your laptop to connect. One way is to set up a remote network and connect via ssh (secure shell). You can also get a raspberry pi emulator if you have windows so you can try it out without even having one (so surely this can also be done with linux) : Virtualbox Raspberry Pi Emulator