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Gonna build a HTPC. Netflix, Watching downloaded tv shows/ movies. Internet browsing. Could use it for rooting phones and what not. Hosting the odin/sbf/what ever fliles that kinda thing. Would be cool if I could set up a server type stuff so other computers can see the data and If i could see it on stuff like a cloud server would be a plus.
I don't know a ton about pc specs. AMD vs intel. stuff like that. I don't need some powerhouse here for what Im doing.
I'd like to keep it on the cheaper end, but good performing and reliable.. Maybe a barebones kit for the processor, box, power supply and stuff then buy the rest on its own.
Go Windows based or linux based? Did they find a more simple way to watch netflix on linux yet? last I heard you had to install a few patches find old silverlight and firefox or something.
Obviously HD compacity depends on what/ how much I download. But any brands to stay away from? Any specs I should look at?
Worth it to put a ssd in for the operating system then run a conventional drive for the storage? Will that help with reliability assuming that the drive wouldn't be spinning while I'm browsing/watching netflix and or the system is sleeping/standby?
Minimum amount of ram?
What do I need to look for in video card? AMD or Nivida work with linux? It would be nice to have it be able to work as a dvr if it won't require me to bump up processor specs a whole lot ($$ only worth it if the price is right)
I think that's about it..
Any suggestions? Thanks.
It's off topic, not development
can't tell if your being serious or not? I figured this would be the best place? seems off topic its not about phones..
99% of anything works with Linux.....I run xubuntu
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I was told one of the brands of video cards didn't work well. something about the drivers.
Also Netflix requires silverlite to stream and that is something that is missing from linux. But I do have a ps3 so netflix streaming isn't a must at this point as I can just use that.. It would just be nice to have a all in one unit
This seems like a good start http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7544705&CatId=31 anyone see any issues? Seems the video card isn't that great but they are cheap now a days if i need it replaced.
Sup? I'm planning to start some projects for the Raspberry Pi in the spring. The project I have my eyes set on is an tablet/emulator box type thing. I would like to get a Model-B Raspberry Pi, put BerryBoot on top (so I can have a media center and an emulator box all in one), find a decent looking handheld case, have a lightweight and easy-to-install emulator distro, and finally add some controller support and a battery pack. I have always been curious about the Raspberry Pi and I think that this would be an easy and fun way to jump into the many possibilities that it comes with.
On this thread, I want to see the creativity of the tinkerers and modders here at XDA so you can post any ideas you want as long as they have to do with some warm and toasty Raspberry Pi.
Network monitoring screen.
Get a cheap TV and a Raspberry Pi and write a little script that opens a link to Nagios or Pandora monitoring page.
My mates just bought a Pi and its an interesting bit of kit. He only has XBMC running on it so far but with android on its way to working on it I'm gonna keep an eye on its progress. So I'll subscribe and follow your progress.
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mine is running xbmc with auto libary update addon and transmisson to download torrents with a script to move torrents to correct folders.
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Mine's just doing stuff at the moment.
I've bought a Pi Cobbler and and LCD Display, so I've been messing about with some GPIO stuff.
You can see a video of my display showing tweets;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOvMYoUj5dE
Hello i have orderd my second pi and it is soon to Arrive and i want some help from the XDA community to get Diablo 1 and maybe Diablo 2 running (I think wine may be the best option but thats why i am asking here Give me Tips)
why i am asking is because i am a Total noob on Linux
please be kind and tell me how to do and in the End will i make it to an guide
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Hello i have orderd my second pi and it is soon to Arrive and i want some help from the XDA community to get Diablo 1 and maybe Diablo 2 running (I think wine may be the best option but thats why i am asking here Give me Tips)
why i am asking is because i am a Total noob on Linux
please be kind and tell me how to do and in the End will i make it to an guide
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WINE will not run on the RPi as mentioned in the official Raspberry Pi FAQ's. To get Diablo 1 running you could use a PlayStation 1 emulator for the RPi and use the PlayStation version of the game to get it up and running on the RPi. Diablo 2 would be more difficult and require a different strategy, if you really wanted to you try and port it to use OpenGL to run the RPi but that would be a lot of work.
than my Dream of having a Computer only for the good Diablo games gone
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than my Dream of having a Computer only for the good Diablo games gone
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Not to open an old thread, but have you tried the DosBox + Win98 trick? I use this trick to play the OG fallout on the pi3.
Tons of emulators out there. I'm sure you'll find a use. Pretty cool someone actually got Fallout running haha
I'm sure the N64 and Atari will work
Two great consoles
Basically have been looking for a few weeks now. I am looking for something to replace my appleTV3, since 1. It is not jailbreakable, and 2. I have shifted from apple phones to android.
Now here is what I am looking for.
1: I would like a device that is powerful enough to run emulator's such as FPSE and N64...and runs well and allow use of wireless DS3
2: I would like to run XBMC
3: I want to mirror mine, or my wife's android (Galaxy S4, Note 3).....or at least be able to sling pictures and videos to it.
4. This may or may not be a deal breaker, but would really like to use my phone to control it. If not remote would be ok.
5. .MKV 1080p stream from something like an external hard drive.
There are so many devices out there, that I feel like there are to many choices that could go wrong, expecially with support on devices. But also would like the device to be powerful enough, but still fit within my budget. Ouya is the last thing I was looking at, but not sure how much I could accomplish that I am after, especially knowing that raspberry pi devices can be stronger. But weaker on gaming aspect.
Thanks for any feedback, pos or neg. My budget is $100, but I may be able to stretch (a little).
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Basically have been looking for a few weeks now. I am looking for something to replace my appleTV3, since 1. It is not jailbreakable, and 2. I have shifted from apple phones to android.
Now here is what I am looking for.
1: I would like a device that is powerful enough to run emulator's such as FPSE and N64...and runs well and allow use of wireless DS3
2: I would like to run XBMC
3: I want to mirror mine, or my wife's android (Galaxy S4, Note 3).....or at least be able to sling pictures and videos to it.
4. This may or may not be a deal breaker, but would really like to use my phone to control it. If not remote would be ok.
5. .MKV 1080p stream from something like an external hard drive.
There are so many devices out there, that I feel like there are to many choices that could go wrong, expecially with support on devices. But also would like the device to be powerful enough, but still fit within my budget. Ouya is the last thing I was looking at, but not sure how much I could accomplish that I am after, especially knowing that raspberry pi devices can be stronger. But weaker on gaming aspect.
Thanks for any feedback, pos or neg. My budget is $100, but I may be able to stretch (a little).
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1. Not sure if the Pi is powerful enough to run emulators...
2. XBMC runs pretty good on the Pi with more lightweight skins.
3. Works pretty good with UPnP enabled on the Pi.
4. Yatse is a free app that works really good with XBMC.
5. I stream mkv 1080p both on my networ and from external hd. Even sizes up to and over 20 gb.
AnthomX said:
Basically have been looking for a few weeks now. I am looking for something to replace my appleTV3, since 1. It is not jailbreakable, and 2. I have shifted from apple phones to android.
Now here is what I am looking for.
1: I would like a device that is powerful enough to run emulator's such as FPSE and N64...and runs well and allow use of wireless DS3
2: I would like to run XBMC
3: I want to mirror mine, or my wife's android (Galaxy S4, Note 3).....or at least be able to sling pictures and videos to it.
4. This may or may not be a deal breaker, but would really like to use my phone to control it. If not remote would be ok.
5. .MKV 1080p stream from something like an external hard drive.
There are so many devices out there, that I feel like there are to many choices that could go wrong, expecially with support on devices. But also would like the device to be powerful enough, but still fit within my budget. Ouya is the last thing I was looking at, but not sure how much I could accomplish that I am after, especially knowing that raspberry pi devices can be stronger. But weaker on gaming aspect.
Thanks for any feedback, pos or neg. My budget is $100, but I may be able to stretch (a little).
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I'm using one of my 3 Pi's as a raspbmc server. It works with my TV remote and my phone as a remote. Raspbmc is IMO the best of the XBMC OS choices for the Pi. You will not be able to run FPSE and N64 or other emulators on Raspbmc however because it does not have an OS shell, it just has the XBMC interface and you can ssh into it with putty from another computer.
I will warn you however that if you plan to use netflix on it you will need to use a streaming service from your PC. I am using PlayOn to give Netflix/Hulu and 80 or so other channels to my Raspbmc server. Netflix does not run without this on the Pi because lack of Silverlight. If you have any other questions post here and I'll try to answer them.
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Nypan sr said:
1. Not sure if the Pi is powerful enough to run emulators...
2. XBMC runs pretty good on the Pi with more lightweight skins.
3. Works pretty good with UPnP enabled on the Pi.
4. Yatse is a free app that works really good with XBMC.
5. I stream mkv 1080p both on my networ and from external hd. Even sizes up to and over 20 gb.
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Pi runs emulators very well however you won't be able to do emulators on the same Pi as your Raspbmc server. You could buy a second Pi and install Raspbian on it with MAME and whatever other emulators you like. My avatar is a picture of two of my Pi's in a Pibow case with PiGlow boards.
AnthomX said:
1: I would like a device that is powerful enough to run emulator's such as FPSE and N64...and runs well and allow use of wireless DS3
2: I would like to run XBMC
3: I want to mirror mine, or my wife's android (Galaxy S4, Note 3).....or at least be able to sling pictures and videos to it.
4. This may or may not be a deal breaker, but would really like to use my phone to control it. If not remote would be ok.
5. .MKV 1080p stream from something like an external hard drive.
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I think you would be better off getting an android HTPC. There are android apps that will do everything you want and you'll get better performance than the Pi can offer.
1) I doubt the Pi is powerful enough to emulate with acceptable gameplay. Android has a dualshock controller app called Sixaxis Controller that probably does what you want but it isn't free.
2) There is an XBMC build available for Android.
3) Miracast has been including in android since 4.2. There are other ways to share pictures and videos to android as well.
4) There is a XBMC remote control app and you can use miracast for screen mirroring.
5) XBMC has you covered.
There are tons of hardware options available, I suggest looking through the forums and seeing what some of the more popular options are.
That's where I have been struggling is finding a popular device. Forums haven't been overly helpful but I am wondering if I'm looking in the wrong places.
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Well you're searching for something cheap, powerful and well supported. Those things usually don't go hand in hand. You can try building a HTPC out of low end hardware with integrated GPU, that way you can have a full x86 operating system.
Hmmm.. That's a fair point. Ok. So if I were to do the 2 Raspberry pi, which model would be recommended?
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Forums haven't been overly helpful but I am wondering if I'm looking in the wrong places.
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Not to be a jerk, but it doesn't appear you have done much research. I suspect the help you have been given here is more help than you have given yourself
In any case, hopefully my advice proves somewhat useful. From my understanding, if you do decide to go with a raspberry pi you won't have to buy 2 of them. Just use NOOBS (New Out Of Box Software) and you can have multiple operating systems on one sd card.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
I recommend getting the Model B since it has 512MB of RAM vs 256MB in the Model A. Also it has the ethernet port and dual USB populated on the PCB.
http://downloads.element14.com/raspberryPi1.html
Worse case scenario, the Pi is great for XBMC even if you find it can't do the emulation you want. Another device you may want to consider is the BeagleBone Black.
http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black
Best of luck!
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Not to be a jerk, but it doesn't appear you have done much research. I suspect the help you have been given here is more help than you have given yourself
In any case, hopefully my advice proves somewhat useful. From my understanding, if you do decide to go with a raspberry pi you won't have to buy 2 of them. Just use NOOBS (New Out Of Box Software) and you can have multiple operating systems on one sd card.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
I recommend getting the Model B since it has 512MB of RAM vs 256MB in the Model A. Also it has the ethernet port and dual USB populated on the PCB.
http://downloads.element14.com/raspberryPi1.html
Worse case scenario, the Pi is great for XBMC even if you find it can't do the emulation you want. Another device you may want to consider is the BeagleBone Black.
http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black
Best of luck!
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Jerk.....
JK, no I did a lot of research, but basically I came to the forum as a last resort, knowing the answer already, that at this point Pi is too weak.
But, I did find an alternate solution that worked wonderfully, hence my lack of paying attention to the boards. I had an old laptop that I had forgotten about. Reloaded windows 7, placed XBMC, emulators, PS3 controller, voila.....connect via HDMI, instant HTPC.
Thanks for the input though. I greatly appreciate it. I am going to get a Pi thought, because it has other uses.
Hey guys,
My dad got a raspberry pi two years ago and gave be it to me recently since it was lying around collecting dust. I've seen some cool OS's for PI, but which is your guys favorite and for what reason?
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Download noobs from the official site and try them all if you have big enough sd card. I use rasbmc becouse i only use it for watching movies and series. Rasbian is good for browsing and games but is a bit slow for my taste.
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I own two Pis. One with RaspBMC and the other Raspian.
RaspBMC is for Anime, Series, Movies, torrenting with Transmission and network share with NFS and Samba.
Raspbian is a webserver with Nginx, PHP, Memcached and MySQL, and a DNS Caching Server for my network.
Im currently running XBIAN on mine for multimedia streaming. I will probably go to raspbian for the next pi I get since i will be using it to control my Saltwater reef tank
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Raspbian + OpenElec + RetroPie
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Raspian Pidora
I purchased 3 Raspberry Pi Model B from Micro Center in Houston, TX. I use pwnpi for the first box then pidora for the second box and last is retropie. I mainly use pwnpi for my penetration testing and studying for my Certified Ethical Hacker (CEHv8) exam. Pidora OS was the first I installed when I bought the RPi and used it to learn as much about XFCE as I could. Retropie was mainly set up for my emulators and the operating system dedicated to mainly gaming.
I hate Raspbian, I am using a webserver but i get by PHP pages (with HTML content), just the extension a blank page.
It depends on what you want to do with it. I bought one and started playing with it in the fields of programming and electronics, so obviously I use Raspbian, since it is a comfortable Linux platform.