Jun 022012
 
Get_iplayer - full instructions for Raspberry Pi install from scratch

Update 15 November 2016 Installing latest Get_iplayer instructions here… https://raspi.tv/2016/get_iplayer-on-raspberry-pi-update-november-2016 Update 5 November 2014 Installing latest Get_iplayer instructions here… https://raspi.tv/2014/get_iplayer-raspberry-pi-update Get_iplayer is an excellent program that allows you to download content streamed from the BBC’s iplayer server, to watch at a time convenient to you. What makes it excellent is that it is entirely under your control. There is no DRM or restrictions on the content you download. And you don’t need to have the iplayer app on your computer, which is a good thing because it won’t run on the Pi – no Flash. […more…]

Jun 022012
 
mount a USB flash drive on raspberry pi

How to mount a USB flash drive on Raspberry Pi (or any other linux device) First we need to find out where our system locates the device. With the USB device not plugged in, type… tail -f /var/log/messages Then plug in your USB device and, looking in the new lines which appear, make a note of the ID – it will be something like sda1, sdb1, sda2, sdb2 etc. Then CTRL-C To stop the tail command. In this case the usb stick id is sda1. That means the device is located in /dev/sda1. Next, we […more…]