A company called Remodo based in Honk Kong have developed a flexible remote control that works over Bluetooth and IR/HID to control functions on your Raspberry Pi and has created a Kickstarter campaign to fund it. Designed for home automation,…
Following yesterday’s news concerning the launch of the new Raspberry Pi TV HAT, the folks over at The Pi Hut have worked out how to stream to the Plex media server. It requires a plugin to be installed, but mostly it’s just…
Giles Booth likes to make radios out of tech. This time, he’s taken a Pimoroni Hyperpixel and a Pi and installed on the SD card MPC and MPD which allows him to play streams or MP3 files. He’s then programmed the…
Average Man (Richard Saville) has been continuing his resurgence into the world of Raspberry Pi. This time, he’s chosen to build a Plex server monitor out of a Raspberry Pi and a 20×4 LCD screen. He’s used the Plex API…
Tijuana Rick’s father-in-law found a 1969 Wurlitzer 3100 Jukebox, for free but without the original 45s. Together, they refurbished the Jukebox and then set about turning it into a media centre. They used an Arduino Mega to read button presses which…
The bods over at The MagPi have just published a comprehensive review of media centre OS LibreElec. They compare it to other OSs like OpenElec and OSMC and find that it comes up trumps in terms of speed and ease-of-use.…
Andy Felong has converted an old 1942 Crosley Radio into a Raspberry Pi Zero-powered media centre and then used an attached display to display the time and outside temperature (using the Weather Underground API). Read how he did it here.
Matt Mahdavi took a Raspberry Pi A+ and installed the Kodi operating system onto it. He then also installed WebIOPi (an Internet of Things framework) to allow him to control a variety of household devices. These include lights, the TV…
Alain Mauer‘s son Scott is autistic, but that doesn’t mean that he can’t benefit from the cool stuff technology can do, nor should it! Alain decided that he wanted to set-up a media centre/player for his son but needed it…
This crowdfunding campaign failed. This post is left here for historical reasons. Pi2Design has come up with a very neat package for their latest crowdfunding campaign (campaign failed). The Pi2Media Home Theatre One combines a Raspberry Pi 2 with two add-on boards…
