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[DaGaffer]

Nah WDTV is nice it seems and coupled with a blu ray is cheaper that the dune max. Ordered and waiting for them. Cba to jailbreak or create from a pi kit . Too old to waste time on that I want out of the box plug in and go these days. Maybe 15 years ago I would go with ate or pi but not now

Just discovered there's a plugin that gets all the Irish live channels and catchup services on to XMBC, so I'll get a WD ordered.

 

[Moriath]

Just discovered there's a plugin that gets all the Irish live channels and catchup services on to XMBC, so I'll get a WD ordered.

link ?

 

[DaGaffer]

link ?

http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-vodie/

 

[Moriath]

http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-vodie/

Tnx

 

[Deebs]

Lovely jubbly. Have a buildbot that builds the latest version of OpenElec for ARM. Got my PI today and took all of 5 minutes (not automated it yet) to partition and copy the necessary files to the SD card. Boots in about 20-25 secs. XBMC works so far without issue. Going to see if my TV has enough juice on it's USB ports to power the PI, if so will velcro the credit card sized PC to the back.

Just need to look for a USB powered IR receiver now.

 

[MYstIC G]

IR probably unnecessary if you've got a smartphone mate.

 

[Deebs]

Ah yes, forgot about that, several apps available to control XBMC from a smartphone.

 

[MYstIC G]

There's an official one for Android somewhere.

 

[Deebs]

iPhone user here

 

[soze]

XBMC Commander is great on iOS and well worth the £2

And out of interest what is a buildbot? I am a complete numpty with Linux but i have this running on my RPi thanks to MYstIC G and a great link I just need to figure out why it will not boot off my highspeed 8GB card. But my library moved onto the 2gb and is working great.

 

[Deebs]

I have an app, just need to be arsed to look on the phone and see which one I have!

 

[soze]

What do you guys think of the speed for the RPi so far? For me the menus are very slow. I have just created the AdvancedSettings.xml to try the dirtymenus fix but the CPU is still getting blasted. The next step will be deleted the contents of Database, but I don't really want to lose my watched stats and I am not sure where they are saved.

 

[MYstIC G]

The menus do lag to be honest. That's not a massive issue for me as I use the remote program to just pick my content from a list. It's still early days tbh. OpenELEC for example hasn't been released proper on ARM.

 

[Deebs]

I am using OpenElec (custom compiling from git) and the menus are not too bad. The reason for the laggy menus is a design issue in XBMC from the Xbox port days, that part of the code is just one single thread that redraws the screen constantly.

 

[MYstIC G]

http://www.hotukdeals.com/visit?m=1650&q=1260689

£73 for the WD Live at the moment.

 

[MYstIC G]

I am using OpenElec (custom compiling from git) and the menus are not too bad. The reason for the laggy menus is a design issue in XBMC from the Xbox port days, that part of the code is just one single thread that redraws the screen constantly.

Deebs thought you might be interested in this as it's by DarkImmortal (from the XenForo community forums)

http://darkimmortal.com/2012/05/darkelec-raspberry-pi-optimised-openelec-fork/

https://github.com/darkimmortal/DarkELEC

 

[Poag]

Moved on in my home setup now. As we have SmartTVs all over, all now have the plex app installed.

So my MacMini sits in a cupboard, handles all the downloading of shows and then streams them out on demand to TVs Phone and Tablets.

Had a soak test, over wifi, Two 1080p copies of the same movie (about 5 mins start apart) a tablet and a phone all streaming at once, no stutters, using two wifi networks, but the mac is actually on one of them with the tablet and phone. The first TV on wired, the second TV on wifi from a different access point.

Think it peaked at maybe 60-70% CPU usage. USB3 external drives ftw \o/

 

[MYstIC G]

Apparently HMV stores have those WD Live things knocking about in them and can be had for half off if you can find one

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/wd-tv-live-52-49-hmv-instore-down-34-99-some-now-1478723

 

[DaGaffer]

I've dumped OpenElec on the RPi and am using Frodo (Raspbmc) now, which was just released the other week. Seems more responsive than OpenElec. I've also bought an Android stick (Justop) and am running Frodo on that on my other TV. TBH its better than the RPi; definitely faster response. The stick cost about a tenner more than the RPi (although I suppose if you add in the cost of the SD card its about the same) and I've plugged in a bluetooth dongle that I already had and use my DiNovo Mini to operate it (phone app works as well). So now I finally have XBMC on every screen in the house except my iPhone. Which is nice.

 

[MYstIC G]

The default OpenElec stuff doesn't make use of the RPi hardware properly which Raspbmc does because it is included by default as Raspbian does make use of it properly.

That is essentially why I've always used the OpenElec development builds which run Frodo because they are super spinky awesome.

Sticks are going to win out though, joe public wants something they can plug in, not something they have to mess about with.

 

[Yaka]

iPhone user here

the offical xbmc remote is on ios as well started off as an unoffical andrpiod remote port http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Official_XBMC_Remote/iOS

also anyone got the atv remotes working with the pi yet? mrs in sists on using atv2 coz she likes the remote. ide prefer to ebay both our atv 2s while they fetching a nice sum on ebay