- Pilsner
- Nov 23, 2002
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I found yet another cool use for the Pi yesterday: Steam Link.
If you use Steam on your PC and have an Nvidia 700 series and above GPU (some 600 series are also supported) you can play games in another room on your TV.
I used this guide
http://www.howtogeek.com/220969/turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-a-steam-machine-with-moonlight/
and was surprised when everything ran perfectly on first run without even having to tinker with display modes.
It's not exactly a new thing, but heads up to anyone who might get some mileage out of it.
I have a Pi, but it's dedicated as a Kodi media center. I read it's not normal to use a Pi for more than one primary application?
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- Pilsner
- Nov 23, 2002
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You can install an mSATA drive in those. You might want to get a cheap mSATA drive on ebay, or a cheap M2 card pulled from a Chromebook, then pair with an M2 to mSATA adapter. I had a Liva X in my garage for looking at service manuals and playing Google Music on the stereo, but I replaced it with a broken Core i5 laptop.
Scrungy old laptops with broken screens tend to have:
included power brick that can power the laptop without those little rainbow squares
a case (you don't have to buy or 3D print one)
built in UPS (the battery, it doesn't have to hold much of a charge to survive a brownout)
real storage controllers
the ability to power most USB devices (Raspberry Pi really sucks at this)
storage devices with wear leveling algorithms and some level of fault tolerance
the entire base of x86/x64 drivers (the Wifi driver situation on ARM is pretty dire, particularly for 5GHz)
most have Intel integrated graphics, which have excellent driver support in Linux
built in gigabit LAN that can come very close to saturating gigabit
built in wifi with better antennas than that garbage PCB antenna on the Pi 3
CPUs that blow away the SBCs; even a Core 2 Duo is several times more powerful than a Pi 3
the ability to hold at least 2GB memory (even the crappiest Atom netbooks can hold 2GB RAM)
if you are lucky/patient, USB3 is a possibility
the ability to hold a small SSD plus a hard drive via optical drive sled if necessary
I come across laptops that meet most of these criteria for $30 or less all the time.
If you don't need GPIO, use tossed aside Intel stuff.
Is there any way to use an Arduino or a Pi as a USB slave device for the purposes of doing GPIO work on a PC (really I just want to tickle a 5V relay)?
After putting my 3TB harddrive in my new Asus gigabit router (with USB 3.0) as a form of network-wide NAS, I don't really mind the slow ethernet of the Pi anymore. It reads files fast enough to play them.
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Jul 8, 2016 09:17
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- Pilsner
- Nov 23, 2002
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Are Kodi (on Pi) questions okay in here?
I have a Pi2 with Kodi (OpenElec 7, Kodi 16) hooked up to my TV, and use my real remote to control it. When browsing up and down file or folder lists with the "arrow keys" on my remote, I would like if it was able to move faster between the items. Is that delay configurable somehow?
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Jan 21, 2017 21:22
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- Pilsner
- Nov 23, 2002
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It's not the ideal answer to your question, but you may be able to press right, then use the up and down keys to move the scrollbar rather than individual items. This definitely scrolls the list quicker.
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