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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)   15 Aug 2012 01:54 
 To:  Radio      21 of 853 
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I agree. And I somehow managed to get in on most of it!


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 From:  PNCOOL   16 Aug 2012 17:16 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)      22 of 853 
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I'm thinking it might just be easier to buy a Nexus 7 and put that in my dash instead now. Buying a touchscreen for the Pi just seems too expensive.
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 From:  Wattsy (SLAYERPUNX)   20 Aug 2012 13:07 
 To:  Serg (NUKKLEAR)       23 of 853 
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I just got a proper case for mine as my lovely son tried to eat it last month as my home made case looked like a toy he likes to chew on.

 

Other than making it a bit more baby proof I have been constantly upgrading and placing with XBMC, I finally have a build that I am happy with for watching tv shows and films BUT now I have a problem with the photo viewer as it hangs every time I try and open a directory.

 

It's still fun to play around with and the wife actually uses it.

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 From:  Serg (NUKKLEAR)    21 Aug 2012 09:08 
 To:  Wattsy (SLAYERPUNX)      24 of 853 
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OK, nice! And just hang everything off the ceiling - your son's not Spiderkid, right? Right??
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 From:  Wattsy (SLAYERPUNX)   21 Aug 2012 13:22 
 To:  Serg (NUKKLEAR)       25 of 853 
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He is trying to climb everything at the moment so you could be right!

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 From:  Mouse   21 Aug 2012 14:22 
 To:  PNCOOL      26 of 853 
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I think the Nexus 7 would make an excellent car dash tablet. The GPS on it is flawless (unlike my last two Samsung Android devices) and the voice recognition / commands have got really rather good.

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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   21 Aug 2012 14:30 
 To:  Mouse      27 of 853 
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I'm going to give it a go in my car since I have a tablet mount. Still need to check the official cable with my chargers to make sure it charges.

 

I've recently been using my phone as a WiFi hotspot quite a bit and it's pretty much flawless so should be reasonable in the car.
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 From:  Mouse   21 Aug 2012 14:49 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      28 of 853 
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Yup, I used it with a phone hotspot all the way down to Norwich from Bradford and streamed music all the way while using Google Navigation. Don't think I had the right power adapter as it didn't charge but possibly stopped it discharging too quickly. Battery life on this thing is immense though so not actually a huge issue.

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   24 Aug 2012 19:44 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      29 of 853 
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There is now MPEG2 support. You can purchase a license for it for an additional £2.40.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   24 Aug 2012 19:52 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      30 of 853 
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Just seen that. Well happy. And H264 encoding is supported for free. Even happier.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   29 Dec 2012 00:56 
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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 :$
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 From:  Wattsy (SLAYERPUNX)   29 Dec 2012 11:00 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      32 of 853 
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Woo, actually doing something with it. Mines still a XBMC, it does need an update though.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   29 Dec 2012 11:12 
 To:  Wattsy (SLAYERPUNX)      33 of 853 
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My other one is in a box with a webcam hanging off my balcony.
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 From:  Wattsy (SLAYERPUNX)   29 Dec 2012 11:37 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      34 of 853 
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Local perv huh? (YJ)
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   29 Dec 2012 11:54 
 To:  Wattsy (SLAYERPUNX)      35 of 853 
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I wish :(
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   29 Dec 2012 22:29 
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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
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)   30 Dec 2012 00:04 
 To:  Wattsy (SLAYERPUNX)      37 of 853 
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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!
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 From:  Wattsy (SLAYERPUNX)   30 Dec 2012 18:14 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)      38 of 853 
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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.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   30 Dec 2012 19:08 
 To:  Wattsy (SLAYERPUNX)      39 of 853 
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I don't think I could ever get used to XBMC on the RPi after using reasonably decent spec HTPCs.
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)   30 Dec 2012 19:54 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      40 of 853 
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It's not terrible.  The menus are laggy sometimes, but it plays 1080p files fine.
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