Raspberry Pi

[toxibunny]

Got a new TV this morning, set it up and then plugged in the Pi, hoping to use it as a media player. It no longer appears to work. Dadgummit. I only used it about 3 times and had it sitting (disconnected) under the other TV these last several months. Red light on the Pi and that's it.

I need to find a composite RCA video cable somewhere and see if there's any output showing that way.

Your SD card has bent in the socket, and the middle pins are no longer making contact. They really should fix that sometime...

[everklear]

O rly?

I'll look into that with the research on the googles.

Any advice for fixage?

[toxibunny]

Short-term - use a different SD card and remember to take it out when not in use. long-term - replace the socket with something friendlier, maybe? You could also try gluing some stiff plastic (cut from an old bank card or whatever) over the back of the socket to prevent it happening in future, and/or bend the socket pins in a helpful manner.

The bent SD card should straighten out if you can find a way to do it really slowly, I think.

[everklear]

Thanks for that ... a new SD card does the trick.
Now I have the newest NOOBS on there too.
The old card does not appear to be bent, and yet it doesn't work.

[everklear]

Oh and OpenELEC/XBMC on the Pi plays 1080p videos across my homeplug network like a hot damn.

[tufty]

For them as what haven't given up on the Pi totally, Broadcom have just released documentation and graphics stack implementation for the Videocore IV GPU on the Pi.

And there's a bounty for getting Quake 3 running at acceptable framerate.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/6299

[adam]

theres an assortment of dacs for the pi, some very good http://volumio.org/raspberry-pi-i2s-dac-sounds-so-good/

[arcaic]

I haven't given up on mine. They just settle into being single purpose machines....

I have a HiFiBerry on my Raspberry Pi (running PiCorePlayer) with output to a LvPin T2020a amp and my old Royd Sapphires and the sound is just miles better than anything I have previously had for a fraction of the price. All in it cost around 100 quid (already had the speakers).

In the last month since I set it up I've listened to more music than I have in the last 5 years.

I control it using a O2 Joggler running Squeezeplay OS with all my tunes stores on my Nas box running SlimServer (now Logitech Media Server).

Currently listening to the TxK soundtrack.

Cheers

Andy

[skab]

I haven't given up on mine. They just settle into being single purpose machines....

That's just fine considering size, cost and power consumption. I will use my Pis for some home automation stuff, adding some more complex functions to my KNX system for a really great price.

[Gorecki]

Well I'm gradually beginning to find uses for mine (PiCorePlayer that arcaic mentioned above is terrific) but I've got a bit stuck and I wonder if someone could point out where I'm going wrong.

I've installed Squeezeplug onto an SD card and got it up, running and configured by SSH'ing into it via terminal (took ages to work out how to do that) and configuring it using the built in options. The software I've installed (Logitech Media Server) is running but now whenever I try to use SSH to check the configuration I get this:

What am I supposed to do from here?

And the next problem I'm completely stumped on is I'm trying to get LMS to use a shared folder on my Synology Diskstation as it's music library. The shared folder on the Synology is listed as being /volume1/iTunes. I've told Squeezeplug to use this folder and it has "mounted" ( ) it as a Samba share (I think that's right). I think that is all set up correctly.

Now when it comes to configuring LMS I have to point it to the shared folder which I think should be this:

But doing so results in a media library of precisely zero tracks.

Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? I've spent hours trying to figure this out and I'm now completely stumped.

[Gorecki]

Ok, I've managed to answer the first question myself. I just needed to type "setup" at the prompt.

I'm still stuck trying to find the correct network path to my network share though. This page: http://www.hagensieker.com/styled-9/index.html states that the path I enter should just be /mnt/samba but that doesn't bring anything up either. I've tried to reconfigure the Samba setup using the guide from that page but the results I get from Get Info in Finder don't looks anything like his results.


Still very, very confused.

[Gorecki]

OK, I'm 99% certain the problem is setting up the Samba share file path in the Setup options. I've tried just about every file path I can think of and I always get this message:

No such device or address

[VNVObit]

have you managed to resolve this?

I remember setting up LMS and I drilled down until I saw one of artist folders before deciding I was in the correct area as music/media folders tended to be slightly more numerous so couldn't rely on it.

Ultimately I gave up due to size of library and now have a HP microserver to act as a media server.

that said these Hummingboards look interesting

Raspberry Pi sized but open source

[random_dave]

Well a few friends have bought pi's in the last few weeks of the back of Games Britannia and local makerdays so they may be a little annoyed to find that there was a new model released yesterday, the B+

Touted by the foundation as a refinement and closer to the original vision, rather than a version 2

The bullet points are

More GPIO. The GPIO header has grown to 40 pins, while retaining the same pinout for the first 26 pins as the Model B.

More USB. We now have 4 USB 2.0 ports, compared to 2 on the Model B, and better hotplug and overcurrent behaviour.

Micro SD. The old friction-fit SD card socket has been replaced with a much nicer push-push micro SD version.

Lower power consumption. By replacing linear regulators with switching ones we’ve reduced power consumption by between 0.5W and 1W.

Better audio. The audio circuit incorporates a dedicated low-noise power supply.

Neater form factor. We’ve aligned the USB connectors with the board edge, moved composite video onto the 3.5mm jack, and added four squarely-placed mounting holes.

Interestingly they are planning to keep the model B in production whilst there is still demand for it

[(o)(o)]

Well a few friends have bought pi's in the last few weeks of the back of Games Britannia and local makerdays so they may be a little annoyed to find that there was a new model released yesterday, the B+

Touted by the foundation as a refinement and closer to the original vision, rather than a version 2

The bullet points are

More GPIO. The GPIO header has grown to 40 pins, while retaining the same pinout for the first 26 pins as the Model B.

More USB. We now have 4 USB 2.0 ports, compared to 2 on the Model B, and better hotplug and overcurrent behaviour.

Micro SD. The old friction-fit SD card socket has been replaced with a much nicer push-push micro SD version.

Lower power consumption. By replacing linear regulators with switching ones we’ve reduced power consumption by between 0.5W and 1W.

Better audio. The audio circuit incorporates a dedicated low-noise power supply.

Neater form factor. We’ve aligned the USB connectors with the board edge, moved composite video onto the 3.5mm jack, and added four squarely-placed mounting holes.

Interestingly they are planning to keep the model B in production whilst there is still demand for it

Still no digital audio out, damn it!

Well there is at least an alternative.. but when you price up all the parts I don't know that Pi is the best for XBMC + digital audio.

http://www.element14.com/community/comm ... audio-card