Difference between revisions of "RaspberryPi"

Revision as of 04:18, 3 August 2013

The Raspberry Pi is an ARM based computer the size of a credit card. 700Mhz, 256MB or 512MB RAM, FastEthernet, 2xUSB, GPIO

See Porting_Raspbian for the current development status of LinuxMCE on Raspberry Pi.

The Raspberry Pi can be used as a minimal Media Director within LinuxMCE. The following instructions will show how to create a MD.

The Raspberry Pi must be plugged into the internal side of your LinuxMCE core's network to act as a media director.
The Raspberry Pi must be a 512MB Model B. The Model A and the 256MB Model B do not have enough RAM to boot into Orbiter.
The Raspberry Pi must be plugged in using the HDMI connector and using HDMI sound.
You may wish to have a usb keyboard or mouse for interaction. USB-UIRT/MCE Remote is also possible.

PLEASE NOTE, THESE STEPS WILL BE ACTIVE ON LinuxMCE-1204_pre-alpha AFTER UPDATE #27784.

On the Core:
- Install the default pxe image for the Raspberry Pi. (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/118201886/linux-image-default-raspbian-wheezy_3.6-trunk-rpi-lmce1_all.deb)
- edit /usr/pluto/bin/Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh to enable "raspbian_armhf" as a TARGET_TYPE
- run /usr/pluto/bin/Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh to create a raspbian tarball
Get the LinuxMCE Raspberry Pi MD sdcard contents. (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/118201886/sdcard.zip)
Format an sdcard for VFAT using your favourite method. (Windows should default to VFAT when formatting the sdcard from within Explorer.)
Copy the entire sdcard contents to the newly formatted sdcard.
Insert the sdcard into the Raspberry Pi.
Power up the Raspberry Pi.
On first boot the u-boot bootloader will start, it will grab the default pxe kernel/initrd.

There is a kernel bug that can try to load nfs prior to the network driver.  If you encounter a kernel panic then reboot the pi and try again.

Raspberry Pi will display "Announced ourselves to the router" and the core will run Diskless_Setup to prepare the MD.
The Raspberry Pi will reboot once Diskless_Setup completes properly.
On second boot the bootloader on the sdcard will be updated to the version the MD image is using.
The Raspberry Pi will reboot.
On third boot LinuxMCE will ask you to do a "Quick Reload Router".
After router reload the Setup Wizard will be displayed. You will not have any audio or video in the Setup Wizard (it is trying to use xine)
Complete the setup wizard, which will reload the router when finished.
Orbiter will regenerate again and then UI1 will appear.

Embedded phone works on rPi. You'll have to delete /etc/asound.conf. ~~You'll have to set audio to HDMI in webadmin -> Wizard -> Media Director for simplephone to switch to HDMI output.~~

Audio playback: xine-player always wants to initialize video, even for audio MP3 files. It fails because it can't initialize 'xv' or 'xshm' video driver.
Video playback: omxplayer integration is in pipeline
- remove the xine player, mplayer, mythtv player devices from your new media director.
- remove /etc/asound.conf
- omx player (very alpha) may play audio and video after a router reload.

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 ===What works===
-* Embedded phone works on rPi. <del>You'll have to set audio to HDMI in webadmin -> Wizard -> Media Director for simplephone to switch to HDMI output.</del>
+* Embedded phone works on rPi. You'll have to delete /etc/asound.conf.  <del>You'll have to set audio to HDMI in webadmin -> Wizard -> Media Director for simplephone to switch to HDMI output.</del>
 ===What does not work===
 * Audio playback: xine-player always wants to initialize video, even for audio MP3 files. It fails because it can't initialize 'xv' or 'xshm' video driver.