Raspberry Pi - Who's gonna have a dabble?
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McAndy said:
Oakey said:
Raspberry Pi 2 currently £14.99 at Aria.co.uk, limited stock
Direct link? Search returns £35.94. 
I got one at the cheap price, but after I ordered it said "out of stock", so I'll see if it turns up...
My new project arrived today.
wireless internet radio with a bit of retro thrown in.
Awaiting the sound bar, adafruit and soldering equipment.
Just need to work out if there is any high end radio amp/dac for RPi now, anyone used any or found any?
I will keep this thread updated or run my own build thread, which ever you guys think would be better.
Yes I will be keeping the needles working, yep the buttons will change the channels and also the sound bar IR system will be used for upping the sound via remote.
wireless internet radio with a bit of retro thrown in.
Awaiting the sound bar, adafruit and soldering equipment.
Just need to work out if there is any high end radio amp/dac for RPi now, anyone used any or found any?
I will keep this thread updated or run my own build thread, which ever you guys think would be better.
Yes I will be keeping the needles working, yep the buttons will change the channels and also the sound bar IR system will be used for upping the sound via remote.
There is the Wolfson audio card. Farnell make it, but many other vendors have it too:
http://uk.farnell.com/wolfson-microelectronics/wol...
http://uk.farnell.com/wolfson-microelectronics/wol...
dxg said:
Or any of the other little DACs that float about. I have some from IQAudio (along with the little 6ohm t-class amp they do and which sits on top) and they are fantastic. Hifiberry is another common option.
+1Sounds like you need a Pi-DigiAMP+ HAT http://iqaudio.com/
marctwo said:
dxg said:
Or any of the other little DACs that float about. I have some from IQAudio (along with the little 6ohm t-class amp they do and which sits on top) and they are fantastic. Hifiberry is another common option.
+1Sounds like you need a Pi-DigiAMP+ HAT http://iqaudio.com/
Next step is get a sound bar for a reasonable price to break up into individual components, I missed the one I wanted last night by 5 mins and I forgot to put Gixen on to get it.
I got a Pi2 recently to run as a media server with Kodi installed. I have the HDD with the movies directly plugged into the Pi via USB so didn't need to go the Plex/server route.
Great little bit of kit and using the 'Sybu Kodi' app I no longer need to bother with the keypad/controller I purchased. I'm impressed that the Kodi software made itself visible on my wifi network automatically considering the Pi is actually directly plugged in via cat6 cable to my router. So once I started the app it scanned my network for the Kodi software and connected instantly. Very smooth.
Obviously not dabbling with code or fancy setups like alot of folk here but for the intended use I can't think of many options that would be easier to set up.
Great little bit of kit and using the 'Sybu Kodi' app I no longer need to bother with the keypad/controller I purchased. I'm impressed that the Kodi software made itself visible on my wifi network automatically considering the Pi is actually directly plugged in via cat6 cable to my router. So once I started the app it scanned my network for the Kodi software and connected instantly. Very smooth.
Obviously not dabbling with code or fancy setups like alot of folk here but for the intended use I can't think of many options that would be easier to set up.
My first dabble in to the world of Pi over the weekend after buying a Pi 2 starter kit the other day, came with power supply, HDMI cable, case, wifi dongle and 8GB card preinstalled with NOOBS
Open Source Media Center quite happily plays 1080p MKV files from my NAS, and Kore remote means I can control it from my phone. Very impressed although almost disappointed at how easy it was to set up, I'll have to think of another slightly more tricky project to get to properly play with the thing
Open Source Media Center quite happily plays 1080p MKV files from my NAS, and Kore remote means I can control it from my phone. Very impressed although almost disappointed at how easy it was to set up, I'll have to think of another slightly more tricky project to get to properly play with the thing
Edited by RizzoTheRat on Monday 20th July 09:35
Well there's a few interesting projects on this thread so I'll have to have a read through it. Tempted to modify the garage fridge and set it up as temperature controller for my next batch of homebrew, I think BrewPi might be going a bit too far but should be able to do a simple temperature controller myself.
Not sure if it's been mentioned but, for a long time I've used one or two as smart'ish security cameras.
Recently I've been trying out a slightly more feature complete package which gives access to live and recorded images/video via a web interface. It seems so far to work relatively well:
http://elinux.org/RPi-Cam-Web-Interface
It's about the most complete package I've found.
Recently I've been trying out a slightly more feature complete package which gives access to live and recorded images/video via a web interface. It seems so far to work relatively well:
http://elinux.org/RPi-Cam-Web-Interface
It's about the most complete package I've found.
RizzoTheRat said:
My first dabble in to the world of Pi over the weekend after buying a Pi 2 starter kit the other day, came with power supply, HDMI cable, case, wifi dongle and 8GB card preinstalled with NOOBS
Open Source Media Center quite happily plays 1080p MKV files from my NAS, and Kore remote means I can control it from my phone. Very impressed although almost disappointed at how easy it was to set up, I'll have to think of another slightly more tricky project to get to properly play with the thing
http://jacobsalmela.com/raspberry-pi-block-ads-adtrap/Open Source Media Center quite happily plays 1080p MKV files from my NAS, and Kore remote means I can control it from my phone. Very impressed although almost disappointed at how easy it was to set up, I'll have to think of another slightly more tricky project to get to properly play with the thing
Edited by RizzoTheRat on Monday 20th July 09:35
Better still to the above, get an adafruit tft hat (or one of the cheap chinese knock-offs off ebay, like I did), then follow the adafruit tutorials on how to set all that up.
You can then tail the log from the adblocker onto the little tft screen and watch as it sits there blocking away...
I found the adafruit tutorials really good because they don't just blindly say "do this then do that" as many of the pi tutorials do. Instead, they say "do this, but while you're there you might also want to think about doing that." I found that tutorial in particular gave me a good feel for what goes where in the linux system, being a noob and all...
Even better, if you get a pi supply shortcrust case with an extension, and carefully take a dremel to the screen's pcb, you'll find that you can make the screen fit inside the smoked cover and it looks *really* good sitting there, next to the router.
Best project I've done for a while.
My next one will be to get a pi speaking to my weather station and then reporting data to wunderground. I've only found one tutorial for that, though, and it's the old-school "cut and paste this and that and don't think about it too much..." which isn't great.
You can then tail the log from the adblocker onto the little tft screen and watch as it sits there blocking away...
I found the adafruit tutorials really good because they don't just blindly say "do this then do that" as many of the pi tutorials do. Instead, they say "do this, but while you're there you might also want to think about doing that." I found that tutorial in particular gave me a good feel for what goes where in the linux system, being a noob and all...
Even better, if you get a pi supply shortcrust case with an extension, and carefully take a dremel to the screen's pcb, you'll find that you can make the screen fit inside the smoked cover and it looks *really* good sitting there, next to the router.
Best project I've done for a while.
My next one will be to get a pi speaking to my weather station and then reporting data to wunderground. I've only found one tutorial for that, though, and it's the old-school "cut and paste this and that and don't think about it too much..." which isn't great.
So, I'm dabbling...
I have a Pi 2 with the DL image of MusicBox on it - and great it is too.
I plan on putting a few more around the house as music clients, but making it easy to use. Plan is to knock up a simple landing page that contains links to the musicbox page for each of the devices, guessing that there must be some sort of web server running on the Pi already to serve up the interface, so I'll just stick a simple HTML page on that.
I'm guessing the little Pi is more than capable of running as a DNS server as well as serving MusicBox? Any suggestions for good ones that will be easy to use? I'm a SW monkey, not a network person, so I need an easy to use thing that will let me turn off DHCP on my router and do the job of that and full DNS, assigning static DNS to each of the Pis.
I have a Pi 2 with the DL image of MusicBox on it - and great it is too.
I plan on putting a few more around the house as music clients, but making it easy to use. Plan is to knock up a simple landing page that contains links to the musicbox page for each of the devices, guessing that there must be some sort of web server running on the Pi already to serve up the interface, so I'll just stick a simple HTML page on that.
I'm guessing the little Pi is more than capable of running as a DNS server as well as serving MusicBox? Any suggestions for good ones that will be easy to use? I'm a SW monkey, not a network person, so I need an easy to use thing that will let me turn off DHCP on my router and do the job of that and full DNS, assigning static DNS to each of the Pis.
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