The “FiveNinjas” (James Adams and Gordon Hollingworth from Raspberry Pi, Jonathan Williamson and Paul Beech of Pimoroni, and Mo Volans) have written an excellent blog post over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in which they describe the trials and tribulations…
Category: Media centre
Install OSMC on a USB stick to use with your Raspberry Pi
Richard Saville aka the Average Man has written a not-so-average blog post about installing OSMC (Open Source Media Centre) onto a USB stick so you can use it with your Raspberry Pi. He explains why it’s a good and/or bad…
Review of the Slice media player, powered by Raspberry Pi
Sandy Macdonald has written a comprehensive review of his recently-arrived Raspberry Pi-powered media player, the Slice. The Slice was created by Five Ninjas and inside has a Raspberry Pi Compute Module which runs OpenElec and Kodi. You can read the…
Raspbmc replacement OSMC reaches stable release milestone for the Raspberry Pi
Last year, Sam Nazarko renamed his media player operating system Raspbmc to OSMC. Since then, his team has grown and work has accelerated on the new version and he has now announced that the first stable release of the image has been…
Remote control options for your Raspberry Pi media centre
Richard Saville has done a great round-up/review of the various options available to you when you’re using the Pi as a media centre. He covers various options including the Yatse phone app, a wireless keyboard/trackpad combo device and a FLIRC IR…
Review of the Slice Raspberry Pi media player
Here’s some great news for all your Slice backers. Smittytone has now got his and has reviewed it over on his blog. The review is highly positive and there’s really only one caveat: that you could download the software, install…
Slice media player powered by Raspberry Pi Compute Module starts shipping
Following months of development, the Slice media player has started to ship to Kickstarter backers. It was announced on the Raspberry Pi blog that 1500 Slice kits were being assembled for delivery to backers and that a further 1500 were…
1981 portable VCR Raspberry Pi media centre
MisterM has taken a 1981 Sharp VC-2300H portable VCR unit, refurbished it, stripped it out and fitted a Raspberry Pi inside to use it as a media centre. He’s retro-fitted an old VHS cassette tape with a USB hub which…
Download BBC programmes with updated get_iplayer on the Raspberry Pi
Last week, the BBC changed the way that iPlayer exposes it’s programme listings to the web. This prevented a lot of third-party software from working including the popular get_iplayer. A fix has now been issued and Alex Eames has documented…
Interview with Raspberry Pi’s James Adams
Matt Richardson from Make talked to James Adams (the Foundation’s Director of Hardware) at MakerCon in New York recently about the Compute Module, HATs, the B+ and how the Slice is going. The video of the interview is below.