After a year in the making, OSMC, the successor to Raspbmc, has reached final stable release status. Believe it or not, I’m now running this release on the original 256mb model B Raspberry Pi, the same one I preorderd on…
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How To: Install Hyperion on a Raspberry Pi running OSMC
I recently upgraded my Raspberry Pi 256mb from Raspbmc to the OSMC Release Candidate, there were a few hiccups along the way so thought I’d document them here incase anyone else runs into the same issues. The OSMC RC install…
How to: turn Hyperion on/off using your TV remote.
As cool as a Hyperion/boblight/ambilight set up is, sometimes you want to disable the LEDs for whatever reason. You could SSH into your Pi and stop the Hyperion service or just flick the power switch on the LED power supply,…
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Hyperion – Another Ambilight clone
Hypercon – Hyperion config tool Hyperion is another Ambilight clone for the Raspberry Pi. It essentially works in the same way as the boblight-dispmanx solution in that it uses dispmanx to capture the screen contents, which are then converted to…
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Raspbmc September update and boblight
The September Raspbmc update has been pushed out and unfortunately it has broken boblight support. This release introduced a new 3.10 Linux kernel which has changed the way SPI is working. Right now there is no fix, so I suggest…
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How to build the Ultimate* Media Centre
* Ok, maybe not the ultimate, but you’d find it difficult to beat for the price :p Overview A while back a friend of mine asked how he could go about recreating my setup from scratch, i.e starting with no…
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Raspbmc July update and boblight
The July Raspbmc update brought 2 changes to boblight: It now uses Speedy’s boblight daemon Speedy’s version requires some changes to boblight.conf so you may find your existing version no longer works.Basically, all ‘name’ values need to be changed to…
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How To: run boblight on a Raspberry Pi using OpenElec
Boblight has been running quite successfully on Raspbmc for quite a while, but now with the release of boblight-dispmanx (which I previously discussed here) it’s OpenElec’s turn. The steps to get it up and running are pretty straightforward, especially if…
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Boblight just got better!
The world of boblight on the Raspberry Pi is certainly a fast moving one. Thanks to a recent Raspberry Pi firmware update by dom, and boblight-dispmanx by brooc, boblight on the Raspberry Pi is now even better! Previously, when a…
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PiBob
A while back I put together a guide on how to get boblight working on the Raspberry Pi. (If you’re unsure what boblight is/does, then check out these videos) This involved compiling boblightd and installing a custom build of XBMC,…
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