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Raspberry Pi Unboxing :D

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Macro images of the Pi

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Size comparison, it really is tiny, I know they said the size of a credit card but until I saw it I imagined it to be bigger from photos I've seen

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Well that is clearly ahead of schedule ;) Now lets see it booted and doing something and in the case - which one did you end up getting? That fancy one from BE?

Weeks ahead of schedule, should have been in late August early Sept, so I don't even have a case yet ! I only found out it was coming on Friday :)

Look like the guys who ordered the case with the Pi, even from the same place and before me, are still waiting as RS don't have the cases in yet, so luckily for me, as I didn't order a case, they could send the Pi out on its own

Ok, time to flash an SD Card :D

EDIT - 2 SDCards and 3 attempts later and nothing but a HDMI no signal screen

Stupid LCD, apparently my screen decides not to display HDMI if I still have my PC plugged into the DVI port, even though HDMI is selected :angry:

Well that's not a good sign!

All is good :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Yip-tkUuo

Now just need to learn Linux :p lol, Desktop has defaulted to 1280 something, so instructions say to edit a config file in /boot/ so busy setting that up now, will post more once I have some sort of hardware acceleration working along with 1080p

Excuse the video freezing, something buggy happened to my phone at the end

I was wondering if just issue with hdmi vs the device actually booting. You get some issues with negotiation sometimes, so lets see this thing booted!!

That case is pretty cool - but dam UK company, Thats what like 18 quid for world shipping - thats more than the pi cost ;)

edit: BTW what OS did you go with?

Damn, and I ordered my case with my Pi. >_>

Shouldn't have done that. Especially as this rainbow case seems really cute. .__.

/damn

Glassed Silver:mac

I was wondering if just issue with hdmi vs the device actually booting. You get some issues with negotiation sometimes, so lets see this thing booted!!

That case is pretty cool - but dam UK company, Thats what like 18 quid for world shipping - thats more than the pi cost ;)

edit: BTW what OS did you go with?

Pleased it was just an LCD thing, I was running out of SDCards :)

I went with 2012-07-15-wheezy-raspbian.zip but it seems the instructions for editing the boot/config.txt file are missing something, using their command opens the config file in an uneditable terminal window, so I have installed gedit, and it successfully edits and saves, but still got an underscan issue and no hardware acceleration yet (Need to find drivers)

I thought I still had weeks left to swot up on this so I'm learning, playing, videoing and swearing all at the same time :p

Once I get the drivers installed and Linux to say more than "No monitor information" to me, I'll make another vid !

EDIT - Ok, I have fullscreen using disable_overscan=1

This is a slow process lol, I only just got Audio over HDMI

The Linux images really are the bare bones, but I guess these are learning computers (Not in the terminator sense though)

EDIT - Nope, I don't have HDMI sound, I only managed to force 1 sample via terminal to play over HDMI

I would prob go with one of the xmbc installs

http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Installing_OpenELEC_on_Raspberry_Pi

or

http://www.raspbmc.com/2012/05/raspbmc-is-now-in-beta/

other that I would go with the ARCH, the one you grabbed mentions multimedia source examples - but does not sound like a fully functional os.

I would prob go with one of the xmbc installs

http://wiki.openelec...on_Raspberry_Pi

or

http://www.raspbmc.c...is-now-in-beta/

other that I would go with the ARCH, the one you grabbed mentions multimedia source examples - but does not sound like a fully functional os.

Thanks, I think I'll give a different distro a shot, so far all I want to do is break it :laugh:

Laggy pos atm, it can barely move windows around, let alone play a 1080p video, no sound..... I don't mind learning how to set linux up, but when I have to wait 30 seconds for the screen to refresh each time I move a window it gets a little tedious :D

raspbmc seems a much more automated process, the download is only a few kB and it downloads / copies to flash via a windows installer, then when you boot the Pi from it, it continues automatically and downloads / formats flash etc without any user interaction so far :)

I would prob go with one of the xmbc installs

http://wiki.openelec...on_Raspberry_Pi

or

http://www.raspbmc.c...is-now-in-beta/

other that I would go with the ARCH, the one you grabbed mentions multimedia source examples - but does not sound like a fully functional os.

wow, the difference is truly day and night

100% automated install of raspbmc, took a few minutes on first boot to become ready (not laggy) but without any configuration at all, I have HDMI audio and 1080p scaled correctly :D

Playing a TED talk video in full screen completely smoothly, will connect to my NAS in a while and take a video of a higher def video playing but suddenly this little Pi has become much more interesting and fun :D

shoot ;)

If you got ****ed off enough with it, I was going to get you to ship it to me ;) hehehe

haha, you shot yourself in the foot that time then :D

Now I know that given the right software its a flying machine I can put up with the quirks of development :D

Looks like its a good plan to have either a linux box or VM to edit the sdcards though when things go wrong (Like my failed OC attempt) or to add 3rd party repositories for XBMC which is my next task

Seems to be using near max CPU all the time according the system info, and the 10M link light is on (I'm guessing that is the link speed)

100% automated install of raspbmc, took a few minutes on first boot to become ready (not laggy) but without any configuration at all, I have HDMI audio and 1080p scaled correctly

Playing a TED talk video in full screen completely smoothly, will connect to my NAS in a while and take a video of a higher def video playing but suddenly this little Pi has become much more interesting and fun :D

Good to know -- been following the thread a bit as I've been tempted to buy a couple of these, I'm sold. Thinking one to replace an original XBox (XBMC), one for a touch panel that I have laying around for the kitchen, maybe one for a general-purpose browser/whatever console somewhere, just because.

Ok so a little tip, don't try experimenting with different Skins for XBMC unless you are prepared to do the whole Click > 3 minutes > Change > 3 minutes thing and get messages where your mouse pointer should be saying "Mouse not supported, please disable" lol :D

Default skin works fine ;)

"and the 10M link light is on (I'm guessing that is the link speed)"

I thought the nic was 10/100 so I would think you should be connected at 100, unless it had a problem with negotiation with your switch - or its hard coded for 10?

Its linux so you should be able to just ethtool to see what the interface speed is at.

budman@ubuntu:~$ ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
		Supported ports: [ TP ]
		Supported link modes:   1000baseT/Full
								10000baseT/Full
		Supported pause frame use: No
		Supports auto-negotiation: No
		Advertised link modes:  Not reported
		Advertised pause frame use: No
		Advertised auto-negotiation: No
		Speed: 10000Mb/s
		Duplex: Full
		Port: Twisted Pair
		PHYAD: 0
		Transceiver: internal
		Auto-negotiation: off
		MDI-X: Unknown

That was off a VM using the vmxnet3 driver so that is why it shows 1000 and 10,000, and connected 10,000Mb/s ;) - no I don't have a 10Gb network running, which would be sweet though ;)

I would assume the os is trimmed down, so you might not have ethtool - but you should be able to add it if not currently installed. There are all kinds of ways to set that in linux, windows is where its a pain in the ass to view your duplex. Unless your driver allows you to set it, there is really no way to set specific combinations of speed and duplex.

As to cpu use?? hmm what are you doing? What is the current load? Do a top command, what does it show for load?

budman@ubuntu:~$ top

top - 13:34:19 up 2 days, 2:50, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.11, 0.12

"and the 10M link light is on (I'm guessing that is the link speed)"

I thought the nic was 10/100 so I would think you should be connected at 100, unless it had a problem with negotiation with your switch - or its hard coded for 10?

Its linux so you should be able to just ethtool to see what the interface speed is at.

budman@ubuntu:~$ ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
		Supported ports: [ TP ]
		Supported link modes:   1000baseT/Full
								10000baseT/Full
		Supported pause frame use: No
		Supports auto-negotiation: No
		Advertised link modes:  Not reported
		Advertised pause frame use: No
		Advertised auto-negotiation: No
		Speed: 10000Mb/s
		Duplex: Full
		Port: Twisted Pair
		PHYAD: 0
		Transceiver: internal
		Auto-negotiation: off
		MDI-X: Unknown

That was off a VM using the vmxnet3 driver so that is why it shows 1000 and 10,000, and connected 10,000Mb/s ;) - no I don't have a 10Gb network running, which would be sweet though ;)

I would assume the os is trimmed down, so you might not have ethtool - but you should be able to add it if not currently installed. There are all kinds of ways to set that in linux, windows is where its a pain in the ass to view your duplex. Unless your driver allows you to set it, there is really no way to set specific combinations of speed and duplex.

As to cpu use?? hmm what are you doing? What is the current load? Do a top command, what does it show for load?

budman@ubuntu:~$ top

top - 13:34:19 up 2 days, 2:50, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.11, 0.12

Cheers, I`ll give that a go as soon as I can get out of this video, I tried streaming hd_dolby_digital_plus_channel_check_lossless.m2ts and so far its been about 10 minutes trying to play a 1m 30s clip lol

So 1080p it might be able to play, but maybe not this high of a bitrate

When I looked at the CPU use I was just sitting on the system info screen of xbmc

EDIT - Just found this in the Pi Wiki

The LED in the corner of the board labelled "10M" is mislabeled. When that LED is on, the R-Pi is actually connected at 100 Mbps. You can confirm the true transfer rate using a network benchmark such as iperf. You can also read the current network speed with...

Not sure how to open a Terminal from XBMC, the Pi boots to XBMC and ctrl+alt and F keys doesn't seem to open anything

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yeah but you should be able to just telnet/ssh to its IP for shell type access.

"hd_dolby_digital_plus_channel_check_lossless.m2ts"

How big is that file? how are you trying to access it? Could be just can not play that over your wire? You don't have wireless anywhere in there do you? Or even reading off the SD might not be fast enough?

What is the bitrate on that file?

Still not had mine, order was made months ago via RS but I am assuming its because I ordered other kit to go with it, like the case, which is why I havent reveived it yet. I do have one though from Farnell, but havent been able to test it yet due to the fact that the extra components were ordered via RS and they won't ship until the R-Pi is sent by them :(

yeah but you should be able to just telnet/ssh to its IP for shell type access.

"hd_dolby_digital_plus_channel_check_lossless.m2ts"

How big is that file? how are you trying to access it? Could be just can not play that over your wire? You don't have wireless anywhere in there do you? Or even reading off the SD might not be fast enough?

What is the bitrate on that file?

Forgot about telnet/ssh :s lol (Will set that up in a min)

File bitrate is 11170kbps, 129MB, streaming with a wired connection from NAS, I can stream it from the same place on the PC so connection is not the problem :) (No wireless yet and only OS is on the SDCard atm)

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