So - after having my in-laws stay with us for close on 3 weeks, I finally get to play with my Pi again! Thanks for all your comments over the last few weeks - I have been reading them, but haven't had much free time.
For those of you not too focused on the Raspberry Pi site, there have been a few interesting developments. First off - how would you like to see the Raspberry Pi voted in as Innovation of the year? Vote now!
And here's another one - Google are quite interested in the work the Foundation is doing - so much so that they're investing in a bunch of boards, training a bunch of new teachers & sending them into schools - read more here!
So - what next for my Pi? I think I'll be tackling getting it properly hooked up to my network - either by getting a cheapie wireless USB dongle working, or finding a way to get it working through a 2nd wireless router. I'm thinking of using a spare Netgear router as an access point, routing onto my Linksys router upstairs. I've been digging around and found sites detailing how I can update the firmware to work in client mode. Not 100% working, but once I crack it I'll post it.
Have your tried out XBMC yet?
ReplyDeleteI got it to boot, but it has problems with exteral hdd's...I haven't tried flash drives yet....
Hey BOBdotEXE. I've tried OpenElec - works well, if maybe slightly slower than one might expect. It seems usable to me, but some people have said it's not quite up to scratch. I haven't noticed any specific issues - seems pretty responsive over all, but then I don't have anything to conmpare it to.
ReplyDeleteI plugged in a 32GB microSD card via a USB convertor and it picked it up on the fly, played m4v files fine. I haven't got it hooked up to my media server yet, but that's my plan in the long run.
There's a lot of work going into getting a stable release, with a lot of people downloading & compiling the source themselves, but there's a post of the Raspberry Pi forums where someone posts a link to a full image every few days to make it easier. I'll stick up a post on it soon.