Posts Tagged ‘openelec’
OpenELEC 3.0 RC1
The first release candidate for OpenELEC 3.0 (featuring XBMC 12 ‘Frodo’) is now available (official announcement). If you’d like to download an SD card image to install on a Raspberry Pi then it’s available from the official_images section of the Pi Chimney resources site. RC1 is 2.99.1, and later builds will be available from the […]
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Tags: 3.0, file, Frodo, howto, image, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RC1, release, RPi, SD card, update, upgrade, XBMC
3TB
When I have to move resources.pichimney.com (and its older predecessor openelec.thestateofme.com) to a new VPS I was using a little over 1TB of bandwidth per month. I found a plan with 3TB to give me a little head room. Christmas has obviously been busy with people getting new Pis and playing with OpenELEC – this […]
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Tags: bandwidth, download, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, VPS
Raspberry Pi Satellite TV
My kids got quite into a few of the FreeSat channels whilst on a recent holiday, so I thought that after all the fun I had getting DVB-T to work on my Raspberry Pi I’d have a go at DVB-S. Another cheap receiver off eBay A quick search of ‘USB DVB-S’ led me to this receiver for […]
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Tags: 22f0, 2510, 28.2E, 3344, Astra, dm04, driver, dvb, DVB-S, Eutelsat, frimware, LFE2510, M88RS2000, openelec, Pop Girl, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, satellite, tv, TVHeadEnd, XBMC
There have been some important changes recently to OpenELEC, which are covered well on their blog. It was only a couple of months ago when OpenELEC 2.0 was released, and that version didn’t have Raspberry Pi support. Now OpenELEC 3.0 is in beta (see beta 1 and beta 2 announcements), and the good news for […]
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Tags: beta, build, image, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, release, RPi, SD card, stable, XBMC
When I first created an automated build system for OpenELEC I had two reasons: Official releases from the OpenELEC team were infrequent There were no official SD card images (just .bz2 release bundles) Looking now at sources.openelec.tv I don’t think point 1 is true any more. I’m going to keep my own system going for […]
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Tags: build, card, image, media_build, official, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, release, RPi, SD
OpenELEC with media_build
Update (13 Nov 2012): Since OpenELEC is now on a recent kernel there’s no point to media_build any more, and I won’t be doing any further builds. Some DVB drivers aren’t enabled, but this is easy to rectify (it didn’t take very long to get CE6230 support mentioned below sorted out). Update (10 Nov 2012): Since newer […]
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Tags: build, ce6230, driver, dvb, image, it913x, media, media_build, openelec, PiChimney, PVR, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, SD
Moving house
For a few months now I’ve been offering OpenELEC release bundles and SD card images at openelec.thestateofme.com, and more recently I set up resources.pichimney.com to host a broader range of Raspberry Pi related downloads. The servers that I’ve been using were part of the BigV.io beta, so I’ve not been picking up the tab for […]
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Tags: bandwidth, BigV, build, device, hosting, image, loop, openelec, OpenVZ, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, release, RPi, rsync, SD, VM, VPS
OpenELEC keeps getting better
I’m on the road right now (heading out to San Francisco for an Open Data Center Alliance event before IDF), which means that I can’t play with all the great new stuff happening with OpenELEC on the Raspberry Pi. The team have a blog post covering the changes, which include PVR support and the Raspberry […]
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Tags: build, image, Media Player, openelec, PVR, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, release, RPi, XBMC
I’ve written before about my OpenELEC build bot, and even detailed how to run one for yourself in the cloud. After the VPS I’d been using died the other day I had to rebuild my environment, and thought I’d take the opportunity to try some things out. The key change is using a loop device […]
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Tags: bash, openelec, script
Pi Chimney
The release bundles and image files that I’ve been hosting at openelec.thestateofme.com have proven very popular, with something in the region of 1TB/month of downloads. Since I know people have created scripts that use that URL I’m going to leave it alone. For anybody wanting updates on these builds then I created an RSS feed and if […]
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Tags: build, builds, image, images, openelec, PVR, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, release, resources, RPi, TVHeadEnd, XBMC
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