Raspberry Pi - Who's gonna have a dabble?
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FD3Si said:
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.
If you want multiroom audio I'd suggest using Logitech Media Server and using your RPis as squeezebox clients.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.
If you want to use a Pi as the server then use Squeezeplug, for the players only use PiCorePlayer. LMS already has its own web gui for controlling any player plus you can use various apps on iOS or Android for control. Any PCs or Smart devices can also be used as additional playback zones as well.
This gives me ideas:
http://imgur.com/a/TJdE4
Eminently pi-able (although it would be overkill), and the pi could read the time off the net with the added bonus of adjusting for daylight savings...
Hmmm....
http://imgur.com/a/TJdE4
Eminently pi-able (although it would be overkill), and the pi could read the time off the net with the added bonus of adjusting for daylight savings...
Hmmm....
Official 7" Touchscreen has been released -
£48 (without frame) from the Swag Store, or £58 with frame (several colours available).
Pimoroni also doing it for £58 that also includes a stand.
Presume it will be same price from CPC
Technical Specification:
7” Touchscreen Display.
Screen Dimensions: 194mm x 110mm x 20mm (including standoffs)
Viewable screen size: 155mm x 86mm
Screen Resolution 800 x 480 pixels
10 finger capacitive touch.
Connects to the Raspberry Pi board using a ribbon cable connected to the DSI port.
Adapter board is used to power the display and convert the parallel signals from the display to the serial (DSI) port on the Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/the-eagerly-await...
£48 (without frame) from the Swag Store, or £58 with frame (several colours available).
Pimoroni also doing it for £58 that also includes a stand.
Presume it will be same price from CPC
Technical Specification:
7” Touchscreen Display.
Screen Dimensions: 194mm x 110mm x 20mm (including standoffs)
Viewable screen size: 155mm x 86mm
Screen Resolution 800 x 480 pixels
10 finger capacitive touch.
Connects to the Raspberry Pi board using a ribbon cable connected to the DSI port.
Adapter board is used to power the display and convert the parallel signals from the display to the serial (DSI) port on the Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/the-eagerly-await...
I already have a piface cad "spare", I guess I need another pi for that too...
Hmm, I do fancy a separate device for email at work, guess a pi2 + 7" could be just that...
I used to have a program installed that let me use the mouse and keyboard attached to my main PC control another PC on the same network... Wonder if that works between windows and Linux, don't see why not...
I could do with a second screen on my PC at home, but don't need a big one, just something big enough to be able to have email/radio/music on instead of the 20x4 LCD I have now... And maybe use this rather than switching on the main PC...
Or...
Or...
Would make an awesome alternative to the tiny mame cabinet, I can't imagine it will be too long before the kits are revised to suit the new screen...
Hmm, I do fancy a separate device for email at work, guess a pi2 + 7" could be just that...
I used to have a program installed that let me use the mouse and keyboard attached to my main PC control another PC on the same network... Wonder if that works between windows and Linux, don't see why not...
I could do with a second screen on my PC at home, but don't need a big one, just something big enough to be able to have email/radio/music on instead of the 20x4 LCD I have now... And maybe use this rather than switching on the main PC...
Or...
Or...
Would make an awesome alternative to the tiny mame cabinet, I can't imagine it will be too long before the kits are revised to suit the new screen...
Got a Raspberry2 and a Piface2 IO board. All seems to be working ok. I want to sense a button for test and an external switch closure and respond to that with a relay closure and to simulataneously play an mp3 file.
The idea is that when the Halloween trick or treaters come in the driveway a standard movement sensor closes a relay, giving me a switch without volts on it, and the relay flashes a strobe, and at the same time I play an audio file containing thunder noises through the audio socket into my 100 watt amp. Last year the audio triggering was done by me pressing a button on the laptop.
There's only one fly in the ointment and that is that I can't program it! Can anyone help please.
Four monsters are already built and there are 6 lights with tube ballasts in to make them flicker. I also built a 5m x 4m web from washing line with a very large spider sitting in the middle which will hang between the lampost and house guttering. I just need the final touches to be finished. All help gratefully received. Hey I'll even name one of the monsters after you!
The idea is that when the Halloween trick or treaters come in the driveway a standard movement sensor closes a relay, giving me a switch without volts on it, and the relay flashes a strobe, and at the same time I play an audio file containing thunder noises through the audio socket into my 100 watt amp. Last year the audio triggering was done by me pressing a button on the laptop.
There's only one fly in the ointment and that is that I can't program it! Can anyone help please.
Four monsters are already built and there are 6 lights with tube ballasts in to make them flicker. I also built a 5m x 4m web from washing line with a very large spider sitting in the middle which will hang between the lampost and house guttering. I just need the final touches to be finished. All help gratefully received. Hey I'll even name one of the monsters after you!
I've been using RPi for Kodi for years, with the Yatse remote, but I'm transitioning over to Chromecast instead now as I can get everything that's I watch through Kodi (sports streams, network shares etc) on Chromecast, but things like internet radio and podcasts are much easier to do with the Chromecast, the add-ons on Kodi are a bit flakey and take ages to work through menus to find what I want. So just find on phone and send to TV.
Anyway, that means I've got 4 Pis sat doing nothing now. 1 is going to be used for Retropie, well I set this up months ago and it's running, but I can't get it to load ROMS, but I don't know if that's because I'm using the wrong files. More work needed, but looking forward to Llamatron.
I like the idea of using the Pie to control CCTV camera directions and I could combine that with a Nerf sentry gun for the garden, then get it to post videos to Youtube of the Yodel man getting hosed down.
Anyway, that means I've got 4 Pis sat doing nothing now. 1 is going to be used for Retropie, well I set this up months ago and it's running, but I can't get it to load ROMS, but I don't know if that's because I'm using the wrong files. More work needed, but looking forward to Llamatron.
I like the idea of using the Pie to control CCTV camera directions and I could combine that with a Nerf sentry gun for the garden, then get it to post videos to Youtube of the Yodel man getting hosed down.
Just got my Pi out since moving house.
Said house doesn't have a thermostat though, and would be good if I could somehow use the Raspberry Pi turn on/off the heating. Shouldn't be a problem from the software side of things, but the boiler has normal 230V thermostat connections. Question is what sort of hardware/components would I need for the Pi for it to do HVAC control?
Said house doesn't have a thermostat though, and would be good if I could somehow use the Raspberry Pi turn on/off the heating. Shouldn't be a problem from the software side of things, but the boiler has normal 230V thermostat connections. Question is what sort of hardware/components would I need for the Pi for it to do HVAC control?
MarkRSi said:
Just got my Pi out since moving house.
Said house doesn't have a thermostat though, and would be good if I could somehow use the Raspberry Pi turn on/off the heating. Shouldn't be a problem from the software side of things, but the boiler has normal 230V thermostat connections. Question is what sort of hardware/components would I need for the Pi for it to do HVAC control?
here you goSaid house doesn't have a thermostat though, and would be good if I could somehow use the Raspberry Pi turn on/off the heating. Shouldn't be a problem from the software side of things, but the boiler has normal 230V thermostat connections. Question is what sort of hardware/components would I need for the Pi for it to do HVAC control?
https://youtu.be/oaf_zQcrg7g
http://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/8-channel-relay-boar...
http://www.sainsmart.com/arduino-pro-mini.html
other retailers are availible
An amusing Pi project, who wouldn't want a disco calculator?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YfIQ7ktFM1g
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YfIQ7ktFM1g
As an early Christmas from my brother on his visit this weekend, I am now the owner of a raspberry Pi with a load of emulators and games preloaded. He did go through it, but to be honest I sort of glazed over with the stuff about Linux, dos, commands and using a different setup if a game doesn't work properly. I need to learn things, wireless dongles, a gamepad, keyboard/mouse and a read through this thread will probably help too
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