{"id":320,"date":"2012-12-28T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/raspberry-pi-openelec-and-xmbc\/"},"modified":"2012-12-28T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T17:30:00","slug":"raspberry-pi-openelec-and-xmbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/raspberry-pi-openelec-and-xmbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi, OpenElec and xmbc"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I got a Raspberry Pi<\/a> for Christmas.\u00a0 I have had some fun and games with it, not least when I broke the mount for the SD card whilst custom making a case.\u00a0 Stupid error.\u00a0 I’d cut a slot and left the card in whilst slipping the Pi in to the case.\u00a0 I must have levered it somehow.\u00a0 It was fixed by cutting a piece of plastic or two from a yoghurt pot lid and screwing the Raspberry Pi firmly down against some plastic casing from a house wiring box.\u00a0 I had cut the plastic using my new dremel.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The box had contained some buttons.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I am running OpenElec<\/a> at the moment which is a fast booting xmbc implementation.\u00a0 Without much effort I have it working as music player, BBC iPlayer<\/a>, Spotify player (Spotimc)<\/a>\u00a0 and TV Catchup<\/a> (I had to read the installation instructions for this one since the zip is a repository, not the add-on).<\/p>\n

It even works with my Samsung TV remote using libCEC though this needed activating on the TV (which took me some time to work out).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Running BBC iPlayer in HD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The little box is powered by the TV and when I have a WiFi adapter for it will sit behind the TV and quietly work its magic.\u00a0 I am very impressed by the little guy.\u00a0 My wife suggests that cardboard and wood are not ideal case materials, and I agree, but it is different, and all I had lying around.<\/p>\n

The next project is to (maybe) get another and make it do the same but with a squeezeserver on top so I can free up my Dell Zino, which I don’t really take full advantage of where it is.\u00a0 I might sell it on if I can do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I got a Raspberry Pi for Christmas.\u00a0 I have had some fun and games with it, not least when I broke the mount for the SD card whilst custom making a case.\u00a0 Stupid error.\u00a0 I’d cut a slot and left the card in whilst slipping the Pi in to the case.\u00a0 I must have … Continue reading Raspberry Pi, OpenElec and xmbc<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44,33,45],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-openelec","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-xmbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}