The Raspberry Pi Thread.

[LancerSix]

Got and benchmarked a pair of SD cards for pi use.

The winner, SanDisk Class 6 16GB, bought directly from Amazon (not the reseller they show there) for $15.99.
Compared to the other benchmarks I've seen, this is smokin' fast. It isn't tested on the Pi though.
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-...8A/ref=lh_ni_t


The other one, a Patriot that was cheaper but class 10. It does sequential writes faster, but since we're running an OS off this thing, the smaller random writes are more important.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002TA86C8/

[ctrlchris]

Order placed

(Despatch expected within 6 week(s))

Welp

Big up to sparq for the code <3

[Fuggin]

shameless plug for #raspberrypi on same server as #failheap for real-time raspi chat (channel is dead unless you fuckers participate)

[Sparq]

Go to order my APC today, only to discover they've all sold out. Well fuck everything, really.

Back to waiting.

[Zeekar]

Got it today, installed open elec, its working quite ok but I did have some issues getting it to find my windows box but it did in the end. Even played an xvid movie nicely but then it crashed on a hd rip of forrest gump. Will play more with it tomorrow. Also i need a longer lan cable.

[EntroX]

Got it today, installed open elec, its working quite ok but I did have some issues getting it to find my windows box but it did in the end. Even played an xvid movie nicely but then it crashed on a hd rip of forrest gump. Will play more with it tomorrow. Also i need a longer lan cable.

use raspbmc, works much much better than openelec

[Zeekar]

Got it today, installed open elec, its working quite ok but I did have some issues getting it to find my windows box but it did in the end. Even played an xvid movie nicely but then it crashed on a hd rip of forrest gump. Will play more with it tomorrow. Also i need a longer lan cable.

use raspbmc, works much much better than openelec

Ill give it a try as I see the installation is even easier then openelec.

#Edit: Also need to buy an additional power supply, the current one from my phone gets used for way too many things

[FooB]

FYI, some marose motherfucker just wrote a sexy script to get WiFi working on boot on debian squeeze (unfortunately pre-wheezy) on wifi dongles that use the realtek RTL8188CUS chipset, which are the cheap microdongles on amazon.

This was the one i purchased.

It was the cheapest one available that was eligible for Amazon Prime. and i can confirm it works as its going right now. heres my lsusb and ip addr showing the WiFi dongle as recognised and working.

login as: pi
pi@192.168.1.2's password:
Linux raspberrypi 3.1.9+ #125 PREEMPT Sun Jun 17 16:09:36 BST 2012 armv6l

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Mon Jun 18 22:16:38 2012 from 192.168.1.4
pi@raspberrypi:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9512 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
pi@raspberrypi:~$ ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether b8:27:eb:4f:3d:fd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:d0:c1:47:8b:db brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.2/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global wlan0
    inet6 fe80::2d0:41ff:fec7:db8b/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

All you have to do is read this - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/80256631/install-rtl8188cus.txt - and essentially do as it says depending on wether or not you are ethernet-connected. Its highly recommended that you are however.

The basic rundown of the script is that you copy it to your /boot/ folder using another computer and then just start up your pi and run it. (by using the command "sudo /boot/<scriptname>.sh")

It will then download the actual r-pi wifi drivers for the chipset, download a DHCP update and dependencies for both things, then after that it will run that other dudes rpi-updater and essentially update a bunch of stuff on your rpi which fixes a LOT of base problems (along with a really annoying problem that stopped people not being able to use startx without a display connected, essentially rendering VNC useless as while tightvnc would install and start a server, it wouldnt start up x so there wasnt a desktop for you to actually interact with).

Once the script is finished (and it will take a decent amount of time, like 20min > half hour). Plug in your wifi module and reboot. Voila, wifi working perfectly fine.

Heres my pi with the WiFi dongle connected and working.

http://db.tt/oWiHmmaD
http://db.tt/79xS9V8G





Now all i need to do is find a battery that has an infinite power source and i run my pi with NO WIRES AT ALL.

EDIT* Before anyone asks, no this isnt currently working on XBMC because its being cunty. its being worked on. As soon as XBMC works with wifi i'll know because im looking to get my hands on that motherfucker ASAFP.

[Zeekar]

3.5w, solar power and wind energy would actually be useful here. One of the very few cases!

[elmicker]

There are actually two serious wireless power industry groups, so it shouldn't be all that long until we've got some form of short-range power transfer ideal for this kind of thing.

[FooB]

the TightVNC Server seems to install like a boss, just managed to get a VNC set up going as per pic; -



Unfortunately, again, this is pre-wheezy as the proper beta image was only released today and i just got in from work so i cant be fucked to download it and put it onto another SD card, its downloading but ill do that tomorrow. I can't see why it would be any different though as all i did was apt-get the fucker and it seems to work OK.

What is strangely odd though, is that it seems that the desktop actually operates faster through a VNC viewer, than it did when i was using it properly as a normal desktop. I have a feeling that may have something to do with the updates i ran in the process of getting tightvnc installed though. Sadly, the wifi drivers are nowhere near stable enough to actually allow VNC for more than like, 5 seconds before the whole thing just shits itself so i have to use ethernet for the time being but all in all, for a months worth of being alive, eveything seems to be going much better than originally expected for this little device.

[halbarad]

Set up Raspbmc last night and had a bit of a play around with it, seemed a little slow trying to load Youtube videos but not sure if that's the LAN connection (which it shouldn't be as all the other devices in the house work fine for it) or if it's an XBMC issue. I'll have to test it more tonight and try some other stuff.

[Fuggin]

Remember...the ethernet port shares resources with the USB ports. The less you have on the USB ports, the better it will be for your LAN.

[halbarad]

Remember...the ethernet port shares resources with the USB ports. The less you have on the USB ports, the better it will be for your LAN.

Yeah, only got a keyboard plugged in right now but will be uplugging that and using my phone as a remote.

[Fuggin]

Remember...the ethernet port shares resources with the USB ports. The less you have on the USB ports, the better it will be for your LAN.

Yeah, only got a keyboard plugged in right now but will be uplugging that and using my phone as a remote.

The keyboard is what caused my problems...unplug it and try to see if it works better in general.

[FooB]

when it comes to the pi, aside from the actual power supply you use, it appears the cheaper is better. for example...

1) Class 10 SD Cards are royally fucked for booting an OS from, Class 4 appear to work the best.

2) The keyboard that works the best on my pi is my hilariously shit (and oddly, hilariously useful and portable) Floppy Keyboard. This is also a major component in what i will eventually create as a Beer-Proof PC that hilariously drunk people are allowed to use to choose which music they want to listen to whilst shitfaced and spilling shit everywhere.

3) Same as above, but with a mouse. And unfortunately less floppy.

4) HDMI Cables. I've been seeing some reports that the ethernet=enabled HDMI cables are fucking shit up. Poundland 1M HDMIs however, spot on.

5) My £7.50 micro-wifi dongle uses the most common chipset and is therefore already up and running on Pis (as previously demonstrated)

etc.. etc....

[Aeolos]

Rrrrraaaaaaaaaaageeeeeee

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[FooB]

RaspBMC RC 3 Released, along with such features as wifi modules now included in the kernal (so no recompiling to try and enable wifi, but youll still have to configure stuff and firmware), and motherfucking CEC SUPPORT.


CEC support is still sketchy for now, but it generally works (as long as you have a CEC enabled TV and are using HDMI, of course). For those who have no idea what CEC is, it essentially allows the TV to issue commands to the device over HDMI, whihc in a nutshell means that you can use your standard TV remote control to navigate and use raspbmc. no keyboards or xbmc commander apps required.

Also, general stuff like improved 1080p playback, audio playback, .OGG support and general stability improvements are there as well. although its very much an RC so its still unstable as fuck. As well as theres they have improved the "exit" feature of RaspBMC, so that if you do shutdown (the Pi itself has no automatic power down, and no power switch.) It will give you the options of restarting raspbmc or dropping you to a command line, which if you dont do anthing with after a few seconds will automatically boot back into raspbmc. This is good because its now easy to use the CLI and now people can start messing with stuff (as in, i can start trying to get wifi installed and working).

[Fuggin]

I was waiting for this....looks like I will redo my SD card tonight and recompile my media library.

Foob...you mentioned you wish you could have 100% wireless on the Pi. Power-wise that might not be possible (at the moment), but would it be possible to rig a USB (from the TV) cable to the micro-USB power jack of the PI? I don't know if the USB ports on the TVs actually put out a 5V power source, but if it did, it would be pretty n1.

Edit: I suppose I could find out on my own and put a volt-meter across pins 1 and 4 on the TV USB port.

[Smuggo]

Oh cool, will see if I can get a chance to try it out over the weekend.