Raspberry Pi

[Addicted]

Mine is scheduled to arrive next week

[Dink]

just had my e-mail off rs with access to shop to order

[sn00p]

Anyone selling one of these? I can only see them on eBay and they are really over-priced. But I could do with one for xbmc as I only have a laptop now.

Personally I'd find an AppleTV2 on ebay and get that instead, it'll be far more capable for video playback and will have a remote etc.

[AK]

ATV2 are commanding a high premium ATM till ATV3 can be JB.

For the price RPi is good. Depends on budget.

My end aim is to have an ATV as well, lol.

[sn00p]

ATV2 are commanding a high premium ATM till ATV3 can be JB.

For the price RPi is good. Depends on budget.

My end aim is to have an ATV as well, lol.

Ahh...but it's s**t for XMBC, once it's having to deal with content that the hardware can't decode in hardware, it all starts breaking down.

I'm not even talking about video, even if you have the video in say h264 (which is hardware accelerated) but it's in the wrong container type, then the processor has to get involved and it shows up how useless it actually is. Same for audio.

I only ran XBMC on it for a laugh and I got one.

[AK]

Ah right I see.

I think my mate mentioned XBMC isn't quite a stable build yet. I'll wait and see .

[sneeks]

This looks interesting but I'm more than happy with my ATV2 running XBMC.

[Tom]

I've got a code from RS if anyone needs one desperately

[AK]

What's the code for? Interested as why I've not had a delivery note etc when mine was ordered when the first batch was released, lol.

[Tom]

Dunno just landed in my inbox, im assuming its a single allowance of a Pi

[richy22]

Yes it is.

[richy22]

I got one too...dont know if I want to get one now though.

[Addicted]

Scheduled for delivery this week, nothing as of yet!

[Addicted]

Got it today running on debian atm, updated firmware will try OpenELEC a bit later tonight just playing the new Dirt game!

[Tyler.]

I've got a code from RS if anyone needs one desperately

I'll have this Tom if you've still got it please

[jenic]

Mine came Friday

Managed to find a PSU today so been having a play for the last hour.

It's not bad, running the Debian build from the pi website, it's fast for what it is. Just installed synaptic and tring out a few apps before doing anything else. VLC to begin with.

Might buy a couple more SD cards so I can run different OSs simply.

[Addicted]

Mine came Friday

Managed to find a PSU today so been having a play for the last hour.

It's not bad, running the Debian build from the pi website, it's fast for what it is. Just installed synaptic and tring out a few apps before doing anything else. VLC to begin with.

Might buy a couple more SD cards so I can run different OSs simply.

I'm in the same boat as you, I want to try the XMBC build but that needs a 4gb+ card and I cant be arsed to keep formatting!

What are you doing for a case?


Raspberry Pi Case by matthew-evans, on Flickr

I ended up making one from a generic box from Maplins!

I still haven't really done anything with it yet for the pure fact I'm not sure what to use it for!

[jenic]

Is that your case? That's pretty cool, I'd buy one of them if you made me one

Mine is currently balanced on a cardboard box! A small one like what memory comes in.

[Addicted]

I'm amazed there's still no decent cases actually out in production yet it's annoying!

I wish this was something worth reproducing, it looks ok and probably will work ok, but it's pretty pants; the board is only being supported by the ports, far from ideal tbh

What sort of power supply have you got? Currently I'm using my mains iPhone plug with my Kindle cable, so far from ideal and need to get one cheap!

[jenic]

iPad plug + blackberry USB cable, so same lol.

Managed to get a media played installed yet? VLC and gmerlin both fail due to files missing on the debian servers