Category Archives: Raspberry Pi

CUSTOM SPLASH SCREEN FOR RASPBERRY PI (RASPBIAN)

http://www.edv-huber.com/index.php/problemloesungen/15-custom-splash-screen-for-raspberry-pi-raspbian   CUSTOM SPLASH SCREEN FOR RASPBERRY PI (RASPBIAN) This is a quick and dirty solution for an unanimated custom splash screen during boot. First of all, you need to install fbi: apt-get install fbi Copy your custom splash image to /etc/ and name it “splash.png”. Next, create an init.d script called “asplashscreen” in “/etc/init.d/”. I chose “asplashscreen” with an “a” at the beginning to be sure it starts first. #! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides:          asplashscreen #

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omxplayer play controls / input

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=7987 omxplayer play controls / input   Post a reply 58 posts   Page 1 of 3   123 by alanpich » Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:23 pm I’m working on setting up a mediacentre controlled over http (through a smartphone web interface). Have successfully got omxplayer set up and running to play a video on command from the web server, however i can’t seem to find any way to interact with the player while its running. Does omxplayer have any facility for user input (play/pause/fast-forward/volume etc) via

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Raspberry Pi playing a video in loop

http://www.mindemedia.no/wordpress/?p=16 Raspberry Pi playing a video in loop May 11, 2013So there is gonna be an art exibition where i work, its mainly video art, so they will need six projectors showing one piece of video each, and they are all gonna run in loop, all day long. There are several boxes that can play video, and still be cheaper than the mini-mac, but none as cheap as the raspberry pi. So i decided to see if i could make

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Install HTPC, Manage your HTPC from anywhere

http://htpc.io/installation.html   Installation Jump straight to: Osx - Windows - Linux Installing HTPC Manager can be really easy but might also cause some problems. The main requirement is you run Python. Python 2.7 is in most cases the way to go. The difficult part is installing the Python Image Library. Python Image Library The Python Image Library or PIL, is used to convert and resize images retrieved from the Xbmc Api. Installing PIL is, depending on your OS, not so easy. This guide should help

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Reading and writing from GPIO ports from Python

http://raspberry.io/projects/view/reading-and-writing-from-gpio-ports-from-python/  Raspberry IO Log In Sign Up Reading and writing from GPIO ports from Python Overview 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Created by: coderanger Published Mar. 13, 2013 This tutorial covers the setup software and hardware to read and write the GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi running the latest Raspbian operating system. We will showing how to read from a physical push-button from Python code, and control an LED. Related categories: Tutorial Step 1: Install Python development tools Open

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Raspberry Pi Automatic Video Looper

http://stevenhickson.blogspot.com/2013/09/raspberry-pi-automatic-video-looper.html Raspberry Pi Automatic Video Looper Download the image here!! Recently I helped out with an Architecture exhibition where they needed 8 projectors looping videos all at the same time. Deciding they didn’t want to pay for 8 computers and pay for the electricity for 8 computers, they contacted me to see if I could help (Pictures to come soon!). They got 8 Raspberry Pis, which together cost less than one PC and use less an energy than one PC. That’s

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NOOBS Setup for Raspberrypi

https://github.com/raspberrypi/noobs/blob/master/README.md NOOBS (New Out of Box Software) An easy Operating System installer for the Raspberry Pi NOOBS is designed to make it easy to select and install operating systems for the Raspberry Pi without having to worry about manually imaging your SD card. The latest official release of NOOBS can be downloaded from http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/NOOBS_latest For information on previous releases and version changelists, visit https://github.com/raspberrypi/noobs/releases About On first boot NOOBS will format your SD card and allow you to select which OSes you

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Raspberry Pi – playing Flash movies

Raspberry Pi – playing Flash movies Posted on January 12, 2013 http://cagewebdev.com/index.php/raspberry-pi-playing-flash-movies/ How to play Flash movies (YouTube!) in Midori on yourRaspberry PI? Just install gnash and the browser plugin: Install gnash: sudo apt-get install gnash Install the browser plugin: sudo apt-get install browser-plugin-gnash Happy YouTubing!  Thanks to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRXedwXrPh8

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Installing flash player on Raspberry Pi

http://cae2100.wordpress.com/2012/12/23/installing-flash-player-on-raspberry-pi/ Installing flash player on Raspberry Pi DECEMBER 23, 2012 15 COMMENTS We all want to do stuff like play youtube videos and such, but due to the closed source of adobe flash, we are unable to do this on the raspberry pi. We’re all in luck tho, the open source alternative named Gnash is here to save the day! Here is the two commands you need to open to get flash player working in Midori, which is the default web browser

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FIX BLACK SCREEN IN RASPBERRY PI WITH HDMI

http://rapidsol.blogspot.com/2013/08/fix-black-screen-in-raspberry-pi-with.html   If you use an HDMI-Male to 3 RCA Video Audio AV Cable Adapter and get a black screen you may tweak the config.txt to solve the problem. If you open config.txt you will see that there are plenty of lines commented out that change the behavior of the HDMI output in the Raspberry Pi. This is the configuration that could work: disable_overscan=1 hdmi_group=2 hdmi_mode=35 hdmi_drive=2

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Raspberry PI kiosk mode with Chromium.

  lokir’s linux notes Raspberry PI kiosk mode with Chromium. http://lokir.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/raspberry-pi-kiosk-mode-with-chromium/ 1. Install chromium, x11-xserver-utils and unclutter sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y sudo apt-get install chromium x11-xserver-utils unclutter 2. We need to prevent screen from going blank and disable screen saver. – edit /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart and comment # screen saver line and add those lines: @xset s off @xset -dpms @xset s noblank @chromium –kiosk –incognito http://some.web. Done.

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A simple and good looking case for our Raspberry

  A simple and good looking case for our Raspberry Veröffentlicht am 30 January 2013 von admin — Keine Kommentare ↓  http://www.raspyfi.com/a-simple-and-good-looking-case-for-our-raspberry/ One thing I knew for sure. I was not going to spend 10 euro for a nice and ready case for my raspberry pi. Certainly, I could better spend my money on, hmm let’s say 2 long islands or some fancy ouput capacitors or a P.I.L. Vinyl… So I just got prepared, and I followed what the guy behind Moebius Linux did, you can find his original

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Wi-fi on Raspberry Pi, a simple guide

http://www.raspyfi.com/wi-fi-on-raspberry-pi-a-simple-guide/ Wi-fi on Raspberry Pi, a simple guide Veröffentlicht am 19 March 2013 von admin — 10 Kommentare ↓ Since the Raspberry Pi comes only with a wired network, it could be useful for lot of us to get it wi-fi ready. Wi-fi on Raspberry Pi can be achieved with little effort and at cheap expences. We do only require a compatible wi-fi dongle, and the best candidate for the job is the Edimax EW-7811Un. These are the features: Supports 150 Mbps 802.11n, so if

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web kiosks and multi-user web workstations

Internet cafe Instant WebKiosk/UB, alias Unrestricted Browsing flavour, is a free operating system designed for web kiosks and multi-user web workstations (cafès, offices, schools, hotels, hospitals, libraries) on standard (even diskless) PC hardware. It is a “live” (no installation required because it boots from USB keys), browser-only (only the browser interface will show up) distribution of Linux Debian. Instant WebKiosk/UB is a fully customizable operating system for Internet browsing purposes, which protects privacy: users can modify its settings runtime but after a reset the operating system defaults to original values and users’ informations

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OS Distro tools, for Raspi

  OS Distro tools OS INSTALLATION & FIRMWARE UPDATE TOOLS BerryBoot (BootManager)- http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot RPi OSImage Downloader - http://mrpfister.com/journal/raspberry-pi-os-image-downloader/ RPi Firmware Updater - https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update/ RpyConfig - http://sourceforge.net/projects/rpyconfig/?source=dlp   GAMING EMULATION ChameleonPi - http://chameleon.enging.com/ PiMAME - http://pimame.org/   HOME THEATRE PC DarkELEC http://darkimmortal.com/2012/11/darkelec-release-3/ https://github.com/darkimmortal/DarkELEC GeeXBOX - ??? OpenELEC – 1st link is offical compile it yourself, 2nd link precompiled by Sparky0815 http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Building_and_Installing_OpenELEC_for_Raspberry_Pi http://sparky0815.de/openelec-download-images-fat-files/ RaspbianXBMC – (Install XBMC in Raspbian) RaspBMC - http://www.raspbmc.com/download/ RasPlex - http://rasplex.com/ RaspyFi - http://www.raspyfi.com/ SlaXBMC - http://slaxbmc.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/slaxbmc-140-on-raspberry-pi-is-released.html XBian - http://xbian.org/?page_id=21   MEDIA STREAMING SERVER SqueezePlug - http://www.squeezeplug.eu/?page_id=52 NETWORK APPLIANCES OpenVPN - http://raspiresources.com/Downloads/vpn-appliance-raspbian.rar

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