Raspberry Pi - Who's gonna have a dabble?

[Brother D]

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[Crafty_]

I thought it was something a bit more interesting than using a pi as a media player as everyone else seems to.
Hyperion seems to be popular on the software side.

What I want to do is slightly awkward as most people play a movie via XMBC or whatever, whereas I want to just take any source and feed it to the pi. I think the lightberry kit that someone linked above does what I want but I can't find much info on them, peoples experiences etc.

[Tonsko]

Arrived just now. Top marks for delivery.

[gpb1]

My 2 just arrived as well. Noobs running on it now

[Graham]

which os are you going to use with the pi2 im sure i read it needed noobs 1.4 but there is only 1.3.12 on the downloads page anyone tried it with 1.3.12, or have you gone straight to a distribution rather than pic from noobs

[anarki]

Mine has also just arrived from RS.

Shame I'm in work today

[Du1point8]

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[Tonsko]

Will probably run Raspbian on it for now, just to get it up and running. Might have a bash with Arch for a bit of self-flagellation before putting Win10 on it.

[Graham]

gpb1 said:

My 2 just arrived as well. Noobs running on it now

which version did you use

[marctwo]

anarki said:

Mine has also just arrived from RS.

Shame I'm in work today

Same.

[marctwo]

Tonsko said:

Will probably run Raspbian on it for now, just to get it up and running. Might have a bash with Arch for a bit of self-flagellation before putting Win10 on it.

You know it's not a full desktop version of Win10, right?

[samuelellis]

marctwo said:

anarki said:

Mine has also just arrived from RS.

Shame I'm in work today

Same.

Ditto

[Bullett]

Just a heads up in case you hadn't realised.
Unlike the original this uses a micro SD not a regular sized one.

This is what amazon prime is for.

[marctwo]

Bullett said:

Just a heads up in case you hadn't realised.
Unlike the original this uses a micro SD not a regular sized one.

This is what amazon prime is for.

I just did the same thing. They have a Sandisk Ultra 8GB for £3.72 but it's an add-on item. Luckily I needed an hdmi to dvi cable anyway.

[Too Late]

I ordered a B+ yesterday only for it to arrive today and be returned.
I then followed up by placing an order for a RPi2.

RM are out of stock now....

[Tonsko]

marctwo said:

You know it's not a full desktop version of Win10, right?

I didn't, but I suspected it wouldn't be. Isn't it the phone version?

[gpb1]

Graham said:

hich version did you use

1.3.12 - it was all that was available on the site - works fine though

[Tonsko]

When you're prepping and transferring the image to the SD card - how long does it take? I'm using OSX and the command line, with a 16Gb card.

Nvm, just had to be patient

Edited by Tonsko on Tuesday 3rd February 18:27

[ecotec]

Tonsko said:

When you're prepping and transferring the image to the SD card - how long does it take? I'm using OSX and the command line, with a 16Gb card.

Nvm, just had to be patient

Edited by Tonsko on Tuesday 3rd February 18:27

just go here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

download noobs network install, unzip and copy it over the your sd card - no need to write the image, just copy over, boot and choose OS's and they will then be downloaded and installed - much easier all round!

Edited by ecotec on Tuesday 3rd February 18:35

[Tonsko]

All sorted - another thing that stuffed me for a while, is that the lock switch on the SD card adapter was loose. So when I unlocked it, slid it into the slot, the bloody thing write-locked again. That shafted me for a good 30 minutes, lmao.