Get_iplayer installation on Raspberry Pi with Debian Wheezy Beta

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Jun 212012
 
Get_iplayer installation on Raspberry Pi with Debian Wheezy Beta

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 Installing Get_iplayer on Debian Wheezy Beta on the Raspberry Pi Following on from my original posting on get_iplayer, which was installed on the Debian Squeeze distro for the Raspberry Pi, this is a set of instructions for the Wheezy beta release. It’s quite a bit simplified because we don’t need to bother with installing rpi-update, since most of the needed firmware updates are now incorporated into the distro. :-D  That’s progress for you. Starting point […more…]

Using Screen with Raspberry Pi to avoid leaving SSH sessions open

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Jun 152012
 
Using Screen with Raspberry Pi to avoid leaving SSH sessions open

Using Screen with Raspberry Pi to avoid leaving SSH sessions open (Debian) Tested on Debian Squeeze, Wheezy Beta and Raspbian distros. You may remember from the Get_iplayer installation instructions that I recommended not running the FFMPEG compile via ssh. The reason for this was because when you do something in ssh, if you close the ssh session it kills the process – game over (and that compile takes 3.5 hours). Well I just found out about an excellent little program called screen, which enables you to run processes within a “terminal tty instance”. This allows […more…]

How to mount and use a USB hard disk with the Raspberry Pi

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Jun 102012
 
How to mount and use a USB hard disk with the Raspberry Pi

External Storage – USB HDD Sooner or later you will want to attach some sort of external storage to your Raspberry Pi’s USB port. We’ve already seen how to identify and mount a USB flash drive / memory stick. The procedure for mounting and using an external USB hard disk is very similar and equally easy. Until now, I’ve been using 8 Gigabyte memory sticks, but a lot of my media is on a 500 Gig HDD, so I found out how to attach and use that. I’m sharing it here as I think it […more…]

Get_iplayer – full instructions for Raspberry Pi install from scratch

 get_iplayer, Linux usage, raspberry pi, software installation  33 Responses »
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…]

mount a USB flash drive on raspberry pi

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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…]

High resolution raspberry pi Photos

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Jun 012012
 
High resolution raspberry pi Photos

To kick off this blog I am publishing some high resolution macro photographs of two Raspberry Pi model B computers. Since I have one from RS and one from Farnell it seemed like a good idea to put some good quality photos of the product out there. I’ve already put these on the Raspberry Pi wiki, so they are now out there under the Creative Commons attribution deed. You may use them as you wish as long as you put © Alex Eames 2012 (Creative Commons) Click any photo to see it full resolution   […more…]

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