XBMC

A while back I made an official 0.5.0 release for PiBox which I announced on the Raspberry Pi Forums. Since then I've made significant advances in preparing PiBox for use as a media server in my travel trailer. Some of the features I've recently implemented include: Support for running as […]

PiBox: 0.5.0 released, many new features since

Mon August 19, 2013 in Hardware / Linux / omapfb / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / X11 / XBMC (updated 4271 days ago)

If you’re playing with the idea of getting into embedded Linux, you might start with the most basic question: what does embedded Linux mean? In the not so distant past that was a little easier to define. An embedded board was typically physically smaller or at least used a very […]

What makes it embedded Linux?

Thu January 17, 2013 in BeagleBoard / BeagleBox / PiBox / XBMC / XBMC (updated 4486 days ago)

I’ve finally got a build for PiBox that supports a proper XBMC build. The latter took some finagling to force a cross compile that didn’t pick up any bits and pieces from the build system. So it’s all checked in and the builds placed on the SD card and it’s […]

PiBox / BeagleBox update: lost keyboard access?

Tue January 15, 2013 in BeagleBoard / BeagleBox / PiBox / XBMC (updated 4486 days ago)

Once again, a new year means new toys. This holiday season, my wife got me an Acer C7 Chromebook, a pair of PowerLine ethernet adapters and a new printer. We also got new phones. On the non-techy side, she got me some classic Big Little books. The techy stuff has […]

A new beginning

Thu January 10, 2013 in Acer C7 Chromebook / BeagleBoard / ChrUbuntu / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Ubuntu / XBMC (updated 4492 days ago)

My media server died this past week. Actually, just the hard drive. It was running Fedora 14 and needed to be updated anyway. This server hooks into my Sony Bravia TV via HDMI using an nVidia GeForce 9800GT. After installing Fedora 16 to a new drive, I loaded kmod-nvidia and […]

Media servers: Flash, Hulu, Amazon, ARM and Fedora 16

Sun July 29, 2012 in Android / BeagleBox / Fedora / Firefox / Hardware / Linux / NVidia / omapfb / Open Source / Software Development / TV / Via Motherboards / X11 / XBMC tagged adobe / amazon / Android / ARM / beagleboard / BeagleBox / Bravia / drm / Fedora / firefox / Flash / flash player / flash player plugin / hulu / media servers

The media server hooked to my big Sony Bravia in the living room has been running MythTV for awhile now, though my wife has never been a big fan of its UI. In fact, she hasn't asked to use it. Ever. She prefers the ease of use of Web based […]