Aye, Aye Raspberry Pi

[whufclee]

Ok well I've taken a gamble and bought a couple of really cheap remotes with IR receivers from ebay but they are coming from China so not sure exactly when I'll have them. Couldn't find the post but I remember them saying it was the cheapest one they could find on ebay and it worked with the xbox remote so this is definitely the cheapest I can find at £2.80 delivered There are loads of different sellers selling exactly the same units so I'm hopeful this is the one, to be honest if not the remote should work ok on the r-pi anyway I reckon.

FYI here's the one I bought

[bigkidoz]

That is cheap, if it doesnt work then you havent lost much.

[spicemuseum]

FYI here's the one I bought

I did a bunch of searching, and mostly came up with negatives. The one positive pointed at an ebay derivitive the same as you've gone for, but it was far from unequivocal that it would work with the _original_ XB0X remote.

Most of my Googling resulted in talk about the 56KHz TSOP IRs hard wired into the RPi GPIO, or cabbaging an original XB0X dongle with USB connector. I don't mind doing the TSOP* wiring if I _have_ to, but I'd rather not cabbage a perfectly good XB0X dongle.

* no, not that sort of TSOP.

[LudviG]

My Raspberry Pi arrived today

Anyone wanna share some experience with me? What kind of OS is best for xbmc? And there is probably a thousand more questions when i start installing

[trogggy]

My Raspberry Pi arrived today

Anyone wanna share some experience with me? What kind of OS is best for xbmc? And there is probably a thousand more questions when i start installing

If you want an easy place to start, go here: http://www.xbmchub.com/forums/raspberry ... ddons.html
You can download an openelec image, stick it on an sd card, put it in the pi and you're away.
I've been using raspbmc until recently, only just tried openelec - they're both pretty good but the consensus seems to be that openelec has a few less bugs right now.

Edit: That's assuming you want to run xbmc, if not I've no idea.

[xbs]

Great guide for OpenELEC here too: http://youresuchageek.blogspot.fr/2012/ ... ec-on.html

[LudviG]

Thanks for the input, been reading a bit on my own, and thought openelec seemed like a good place to start. But befored deciding i wanted to hear some other opinions

[whufclee]

Like trogggy I was also using raspbmc until recently, now it's openelec all the way. Raspbmc is only maintained by one 18-year old dev (Sam) and he's done a great job but openelec has official support from TeamXBMC so over the past few months it's become a much more polished build. There have been a few bugs with the new Frodo builds but I'm sure these will be sorted out soon, we're already on RC1, things really are moving very quickly.

[spicemuseum]

My Raspberry Pi arrived today

Anyone wanna share some experience with me? What kind of OS is best for xbmc? And there is probably a thousand more questions when i start installing

My second one arrived on Friday too.
I've loaded on Raspbian, for that full desktopness. Right now I'm compiling XBMC on it from source. It takes hours....

My first one has OpenELEC (on which I settled after experimenting with RaspBMC during late summer), I moved on to Frodo Beta5 today - good so far.

[spicemuseum]

the consensus seems to be that openelec has a few less bugs right now.
Edit: That's assuming you want to run xbmc, if not I've no idea.

Full Debian-based GNU/Linux distro including desktop:
http://www.raspbian.org/
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

[spicemuseum]

Ok well I've taken a gamble and bought a couple of really cheap remotes with IR receivers from ebay but they are coming from China so not sure exactly when I'll have them. Couldn't find the post but I remember them saying it was the cheapest one they could find on ebay and it worked with the xbox remote so this is definitely the cheapest I can find at £2.80 delivered There are loads of different sellers selling exactly the same units so I'm hopeful this is the one, to be honest if not the remote should work ok on the r-pi anyway I reckon.

FYI here's the one I bought

Any news yet?

[whufclee]

No still no sign of them yet, as soon as I have them I'll let you know though

[LudviG]

Crossing my fingers, starting the process of getting the RPI up and running now

[LudviG]

Openelec works on my RPi

Starting the process of modding and tuning. Any useful hints are welcome

Can i get PM3 skin for this version of XBMC?

[xbs]

Openelec works on my RPi

Starting the process of modding and tuning. Any useful hints are welcome

Can i get PM3 skin for this version of XBMC?

Overclock

Afaik only pre frodo skins will work.

[LudviG]

Openelec works on my RPi

Starting the process of modding and tuning. Any useful hints are welcome

Can i get PM3 skin for this version of XBMC?

Overclock

Afaik only pre frodo skins will work.

Been reading a bit about overclocking. How do i know they are pre frodo?

BTW: How do u guys turn on the Pi? Looks like i have to take the power and put it back in after a shut down. Is that correct?

[xbs]

When they are listed under addons - skins.
Beware other skins could be not as smooth as Confluence.

Yes, that is correct...
Haven't turned mine off in months

[LudviG]

Looked at the overclocking now, going to try medium setting. But i was wondering if i do it correct.

This is what config.txt got under overclocking:

# Overclock mode settings.
#
# default recommended values are: arm_freq | core_freq | sdram_freq | over_voltage
# no overclocking : 700 | 250 | 400 | 0
# mode 'Modest' : 800 | 300 | 400 | 0
# mode 'Medium' : 900 | 333 | 450 | 2
# mode 'High' : 950 | 450 | 450 | 6
# mode 'Turbo' : 1000 | 500 | 500 | 6

# arm_freq=900
# core_freq=333
# sdram_freq=450
# over_voltage=2

# set to 'force_turbo=1' to disable dynamic overclocking (you can lose your warranty!)
force_turbo=0

# If you have any data corruption using Turbo Mode and overclocking
# try with this setting uncommented
# If this still fails, try to use Medium mode without "over_voltage=2"
# If it ultimately keeps failing, forget about this until it gets fixed
# Use a more conservative mode that will works fine in any cases:
# initial_turbo=30


Is this correct?

I also bought the codecs. Are those 2 lines just added under all the text in config.txt

[Xphazer]

Nope, not exactly correct. You need to uncomment the lines. (remove the hash signs (#))
I use the same OC value ATM BTW.

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# Overclock mode settings.
#
# default recommended values are: arm_freq | core_freq | sdram_freq | over_voltage
# no overclocking : 700 | 250 | 400 | 0
# mode 'Modest' : 800 | 300 | 400 | 0
# mode 'Medium' : 900 | 333 | 450 | 2
# mode 'High' : 950 | 450 | 450 | 6
# mode 'Turbo' : 1000 | 500 | 500 | 6

arm_freq=900
core_freq=333
sdram_freq=450
over_voltage=2

# set to 'force_turbo=1' to disable dynamic overclocking (you can lose your warranty!)
force_turbo=0

# If you have any data corruption using Turbo Mode and overclocking
# try with this setting uncommented
# If this still fails, try to use Medium mode without "over_voltage=2"
# If it ultimately keeps failing, forget about this until it gets fixed
# Use a more conservative mode that will works fine in any cases:
# initial_turbo=30

[xbs]

You need to uncomment the oc values. Delete the #

I think there's and entry for the codecs in the config.

If not add this
decode_MPG2=0x12345678
decode_WVC1=0x12345678

Change the 0x12345678 with your licence

I'm also using medium oc plus a lower oc trigger.
The dynamic oc kicks in at 95% cpu load by default. I've set mine to 50%.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 24&t=20156