Raspberry Pi - Who's gonna have a dabble?

[SystemParanoia]

For a substantial speed boost in file transfer speeds..

Look into sharing your files via nfs.

[J4CKO]

My Atarpi is nearly done, just waiting on the HDMI cable from China, long delivery times, all the other cables are in and its almost ready to go.

[Revol]

SystemParanoia said:

For a substantial speed boost in file transfer speeds..

Look into sharing your files via nfs.

Most of my pc's are Windows 10 whish doesn't seem to support NFS unfortunately.
SAMBA is fine for what I want at the moment, plus it was a PITA to get up and running so I'll leave it alone now its working!

[SystemParanoia]

Ive spent the last few days using my pi to pkay with some ESP8266's and 433mhz transmitters and recievers.

I musy say reflashing them with NodeMCU makes for a really versitile IOT device... Not very stable though.. but power use is very very low.

I found that my raspberry pi's are the only things I own man enough to power and reprogram them.. my laptops usb serial cable is poo

Now to find a practical use for them lol

[McAndy]

Does anybody use theirs with an XBMC set up which is accessible outside of the home? I'm considering a WD MyCloud, but these passes my stuff through a cloud server, which I'm not keen on. My concern with the Pi and my hard drive is that I'm a mere amateur and anybody could access through my WiFi at home if I open up a gateway but don't secure it properly. Any tips, please? I'd far rather do the Pi route!

[SystemParanoia]

Xmbc / kodi will cause you bandwith issues outside of the lan environment.

If you want to serve media over your wan link i'd suggest plex and a server with a processor that can keep up with the on-the-fly re encoding/compression.

Plex player in the pi will he fine... Plex server on the pi is a bad idea!

[McAndy]

SystemParanoia said:

Xmbc / kodi will cause you bandwith issues outside of the lan environment.

If you want to serve media over your wan link i'd suggest plex and a server with a processor that can keep up with the on-the-fly re encoding/compression.

Plex player in the pi will he fine... Plex server on the pi is a bad idea!

Ah, OK, so off-LAN access to photos and music via a Pi = bad. Shame.

[0000]

McAndy said:

Does anybody use theirs with an XBMC set up which is accessible outside of the home? I'm considering a WD MyCloud, but these passes my stuff through a cloud server, which I'm not keen on. My concern with the Pi and my hard drive is that I'm a mere amateur and anybody could access through my WiFi at home if I open up a gateway but don't secure it properly. Any tips, please? I'd far rather do the Pi route!

Isn't a WD MyCloud actually local disk, just with cloud backups?
Even if not and they have access to your local network it's probably best to assume they've access to your cloud server too.

I'd just get a local disk, whether it's WD MyCloud or something else.

[McAndy]

0000 said:

Isn't a WD MyCloud actually local disk, just with cloud backups?
Even if not and they have access to your local network it's probably best to assume they've access to your cloud server too.

I'd just get a local disk, whether it's WD MyCloud or something else.

I think so, it's just putting my stuff in a cloud that I don't like the thought of. Larger organisations are a more likely target to hackers.

[0000]

Pretty sure you can easily disable the cloud backups if you don't want that feature.

[McAndy]

0000 said:

Pretty sure you can easily disable the cloud backups if you don't want that feature.

I think that you need them for off-LAN access, if I remember correctly, and therein lies my problem.

[SystemParanoia]

McAndy said:

SystemParanoia said:

Xmbc / kodi will cause you bandwith issues outside of the lan environment.

If you want to serve media over your wan link i'd suggest plex and a server with a processor that can keep up with the on-the-fly re encoding/compression.

Plex player in the pi will he fine... Plex server on the pi is a bad idea!

Ah, OK, so off-LAN access to photos and music via a Pi = bad. Shame.

Photo's wont be bad. Just make sure the size is managable.. .raw will take an age nomatter what you do.

I run a small apache2 photo gallery on one of my pi's and also share the direcory with the resized photos to my kodi pi directly just fine. The huge stuff just takes forever so I don't bother with that for anything other than archive reasons.

Photos and music will be just fine!

I mistakenly presumed you were talking about 1080p movies.... Which will be bad!

[julian64]

zippy3x said:

ash73 said:

Windows IOT is crap. Or rather, I completely misunderstood what it is. I thought I was installing a lite version of Win 10, like Windows phone, so I could run MS apps on the Pi. Turns out it's just a way of exposing the Pi and its peripherals as services on the network, so Windows PCs can connect to them, presumably for developers who don't want to learn to do it natively?

Incorrect, Windows 10 IOT will run windows 10 universal apps. It runs exactly the same code that runs on desktop or phone. I've done a couple of projects, one displaying visual gauges using a couple of custom controls I originally wrote for windows 8.1 phone (without any code alteration) and the second project is a socket listener that accepts messages from my surface pro or windows 10 phone (all the same code) to turn plug sockets on or off at my command.

Deploying and debugging apps is done through visual studio using a remote debugging connection.

So wrong. Windows IOT will in my opinion end up being the major operating system for PI. Needs to be a little better implemented with the camera and the video but hopefully thats coming.

Seemless and professional visual studio development. I have mine running a rotating TV information display. Also have one running a home security system.

If you want to see the power of IOT on the raspberry PI look at the samples store or google the chap using IOT with a usb camera to do face tracking and face recognition by using cloud processing by the oxford unit. It really shows how IOT can be used to harness power that is beyond its specs capability.

That and for simple GIO using the IOT its SIGNIFICANTLY faster than anything python implemented and easier to program.

Think of IOT as an embedded persons dream of windows without the bloatware

[julian64]

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[McAndy]

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[SystemParanoia]

An ssh tunnel would be the easiest with password login disabled and using an encrypted keypair.

Kodi will not compress its datastream like plex will.

Ssh can compress everything going through it but its a singlethreaded program so may cause performance issues.. give it a go.. no harm in trying

[zippy3x]

ash73 said:

I still think it's crap, if you want speed I can't see what advantage it has over C#/Mono on Raspbian, the single GUI limitation is nuts. Still early days for me though.

Out of interest, why is the single GUI app nuts. Why would you want to run multiple GUIs on an embedded device?

[zippy3x]

ash73 said:

Because I'm not treating it as an embedded device, I guess. While it's sitting on my desk in a plastic case it's a computer. I could build one... slightly weird... integrated TV info / home security / web proxy / whatever app but even my (windows) phone has a tiles screen. Anyhow I'm only beginning to understand what Win IoT is all about, that's the idea really just here to learn new stuff.

I'm sure that's the sort of thing that was envisaged when they designed the Pi, however I think things have moved on since then. You can get things like the Intel Compute stick

http://goo.gl/HGDiA8

that is a full windows 10 PC (or presumably linux OS of choice) for under £80

Where I see the Pi fitting in is as a single app PC controlling hardware. Applications could include things like ATM's, automated hotel/ doctors check-in systems, things like that.

[McAndy]

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[J4CKO]

Got my project Atarpi up and running, let me know if the video works or not.

https://www.facebook.com/748644997/videos/10153592...

Edited by J4CKO on Wednesday 6th January 22:53