Just seen that. Well happy. And H264 encoding is supported for free. Even happier.
Well I've finally used my first GPIO pins!
Powering and controlling a relay. Click! Click! Once I've bought a new soldering iron (can't find my old one :C ) I'll hook that up to my camera and I'll be able to turn it on and off on demand (hopefully).
Well, it's more for turning the camera on when it crashes and turns off. Using a Canon Ixus 220 HS I got off eBay with a broken screen as a high quality webcam. Camera running CHDK, RPi talking to the camera with chdk-ptp.
I've also ordered a PIR sensor. Don't want to totally copy Mikee but it might end up on my balcony pointing at some bird seed :$
Woo, actually doing something with it. Mines still a XBMC, it does need an update though.
My other one is in a box with a webcam hanging off my balcony.
Relay works great.
Took me ages to manage to get some wires soldered to the existing on/off switch on the camera without melting everything.
Camera dies
Click Click
Camera back on
That's what I keep going back to with mine as well.
I was thinking about trying it to host my blog and beehive install, but it's not fast enough. I even went with nginx. I suspect it's mysql causing the slowness.
But in the end I think it's going back to Raspbmc!
I didn't get on with Raspmc, I preferred openelec build, looks like they have an offical build out now I will have to install it soon.
I don't think I could ever get used to XBMC on the RPi after using reasonably decent spec HTPCs.