It's the laggy menus which get me annoyed. I've still not checked how good it is at deinterlacing. I use my HTPCs mainly for Live TV so that's essential.
I now have a motion sensor working nicely and a temperature sensor arrived today which works great too. Seems the little corner of the room my RPi is sitting is a bit cold right now...11C!
With a combination of the relay, camera and motion sensor I can take photos whenever motion is detected.
One day I'll use a combination of the temp sensor(s) and relay to turn on/off central heating. Seems quite a few people have done similar projects.
Motion sensor - £1.38
Temperature sensor - £2.11
Mini breadboard - £0.99
40 jumper cables - £1.75
Relay - £1.06
Well not yet. I want to do a bunch of home automation stuff, like lights, enviro controls, security system, some type of keyless entry (either NFC, RFID, or something), etc. So I am looking for something that can handle that or at least work with other products to do it.
I have a friend who is also interested in this stuff and he's agreed to buy all the hardware if I learn how to get it all working. Sounds like a good deal to me! But he's not buying this stuff, I just wanted to get started.
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Windows 8 - We hate it in the pants - and panties!
Using PiHAT off the RPi forums I can now control my RF remote sockets from my RPi. Strapped some PHP to it and I can turn off the sockets over the net.
I also bought 18 broken Canon compact cameras to play with. Currently got one hooked up to an RPi running off a 12V 12Ah SLA battery to see how long it lasts taking a photo every minute or so.
Model A is the one plugged into the battery. The other Model B will probably be for general tinkering.
I want to use the Model A and the battery as some sort of outdoor webcam system with either WiFi for open hotspots or with a 3G USB Dongle (problem with this might be data transfer).
