Just plug a USB pen drive with a few movies and some music on it and have a play! It’s incredibly easy, and once you’re happy with it, we can move on to setting up FLIRC! It’s probably worth taking a few moments to familiarise yourself with XBMC if you haven’t used it before. It doesn’t require any input, so just leave it alone until the XBMC GUI appears ? Just leave it to do its thing for a bit and when you come back it’s all set up and ready – In my case it loaded, updated and restarted a number of times before rewarding me with the XMBC GUI. The splash screen will appear for a few seconds, and then lead you through the rest of the set-up which will take around 15 minutes to download and install. Once you’re happy that you’ve got an internet live ethernet plugged in, add a mouse and keyboard (wireless combo is preferable so you’ve got a spare USB port) plug the SD card you’ve just written in and switch the Raspberry Pi on. The installer needs to download numerous files and will won’t work if it isn’t connected – it will simply keep trying to connect and timeout. This bit’s super easy and mostly consists of waiting!ĮNSURE THAT YOUR RASPBERRY PI IS CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET VIA ETHERNET. Part 2 – Setting up RaspBMC on the Raspberry Pi Now remove the SD card from your PC, and you’re ready for the next step! This will set up your SD card with the RaspBMC installer, and you will shortly be rewarded with the following success window!
Insert your SD card, make sure it’s selected as the writable media, check the ‘I accept the license agreement’ box, and hit install. This will setup the SD card installer on your PC.
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The SD card must be set up on another PC or laptop prior to use in the Raspberry Pi. This guide will be completed on a Windows based OS, but the same set-up method applies to other operating systems. The first step is setting up the XBMC (RaspBMC) media operating system on the Raspberry Pi! RaspBMC has undergone a number of iterations to become the fully stable platform that exists now, and installation is easy. Part 1 – Setting up XBMC Installer on the SD Card Please make sure all components used are of good quality before blaming this guide ? If you’re struggling at setting anything up, or parts aren’t working correctly, this could well be due to faulty hardware. All parts used in this tutorial are available from the ModMyPi Raspberry Pi Accessory Shop. You can even use ModMyPi’s VESA mount to stick your Pi to the back of a TV – and you’ve got the perfect little media deamon!
If you don’t fancy having a keyboard lying on your sofa, this guide will show exactly how to set up XBMC on your Raspberry Pi, and run it from a spare, or universal TV/DVD (or any other) remote control that you have lying around via FLIRC – a small USB dongle that plugs directly into the Raspberry Pi.
I can use the harmony app on my phone if I need to do something complicated, but really I never do that.With recent software releases in addition to new hardware, the Raspberry Pi is rapidly becoming the perfect low cost, quick and easy solution for controlling your home media centre. I have no need for the elite with the screen. The projector takes a minute to warm up so it's nice to get it started from wherever I happen to be before heading to the basement to watch tv.
I can tell any google device to "turn on the basement TV" and it turns on the receiver, shield, and projector just like the harmony/flirc combo, but it also turns some basement lights on dimmed to 20% if it is after sunset and turns them off at the end. As an added bonus it works with google assistant and all my home automation stuff. The hub is an app on my phone that is easy to update. It required a different login for each remote managed if I remember correctly. I got tired of unplugging the flirc and updating it as well as the harmony remote in their ancient logitech remote software on my computer whenever I changed anything. Now I have the hubs and 3 flircs in my desk drawer. I used to love the flirc and had older harmony remotes all over my house.