we have before us today a Raspberry Pi. Beings cherish Raspberry Pis. We cherish Raspberry Pis. Yes. Basically, it’s a $25, $35, $40, $70 if you buy it with a bundle– it’s a little tiny computer. It’s kind of a cousin to an Arduino. It’s a controller. It’s a computer. But we’re going to install some software on it, OpenELEC, that is going to turn it into a fully functional media musician. And is not simply will it stream your local video collection or musical collection to your home theater or your stereo or wherever you want it to go– We’re going to get Netflix and Amazon on it as well.

How chill is that? Here’s everything you’re going to need, beings. A Raspberry Pi timber. We wish the Model B because there’s more memory on it, and more memory is generally a better situation. An HDMI cable to connect to your TV. Either an Ethernet cable to connect into your router or a USB Wi-Fi dongle.

Temporarily, just for setup, you need a keyboard. And we’re going to need a USB power supply– essentially a microUSB cable that you would help to blame a tablet or a telephone. A two amp power supply is a particularly, very good opinion. Technically, it’ll run on one amp. And you’ll necessitate an SD card to install the Linux dispensation that are necessary. Oh, yeah. So in this case, we’re going to keep it simple-minded and use a situation called BerryBoot, which is a very easy lane to do various dispensations so you can try them out. But we’re going to use that to invest OpenELEC, which is kind of a XBMC dispensation. BerryBoot will download and invest everything for you.

It’s very easy. But if you want to get more in extent with Raspberry Pi nonsense, our patronize lynda.com actually has some Raspberry Pi directions. lynda.com/ diy, please check them out.

So you select OpenELEC, you pull the influence, plug the influence back in, restart, and you get something that looks like this. After the bootloader, you’ll get this. Yeah. Well, yeah. After the boot– there’s a duo times of black screens and words and nonsense. But there’s one more situation we’re going to need to actually make this practical. A controller. Yeah. Well, you are able use a USB keyboard, but that’d be inconvenient. And we like engineering, so what the hell are you can do is, in XBMC, if you go into the locations, there’s an option for remote controls.

So you go to System, Settings, Services, and then Remote Control.

We previously have it enabled, but you can select that, “Allow planneds to use this to control XBMC.” Formerly your remote control must be drawn up, you are able to unplug your USB keyboard and fire up your app inside of your Android or iPhone or whatever else you’re– whatever. I necessitate, I’m sure there’s a BlackBerry XBMC control app. I hope not. Don’t encourage them. That’s cold, human. Actually, you are able to, on some of the newer Blackberrys, you are able lope Android apps on them in an emulator. It’s really cool. So the XBMC official apps are now working perfectly fine. But I really like an app called Yatse– Y–AT-S-E– for Android. Yeah, I was going to say it’s Android– Android-only, I conclude. Why would you like that over the XBMC native control? So the control divisions act fine.

But there’s a assortment of add-ons. Like, you are able to browsing through your media exploiting thumbnails. It has Chromecast backing, so you can stream from the Raspberry Pi into your Chromecast if you want.

Lots of cool stuffs. But if you’re just demand control, the official app is penalize. So you’ve got this, which I suspect you are able to control the climate, right? You can end the climate at this point is just about it. We should probably determined the ZIP code for the climate, or we’re going to come busy again, which ever builds me laugh. But you were going to tell us about including media so we can actually picture nonsense. You need to add media at this top. You can ensure it, enormous. So including media is really easy. So you can do stuffs like, if you have all of your media on a USB drive, you can just plug that in and then add that as a source.

That’s probably the easiest lane to do it. You possibly previously have a machine in your house that already has your entire video collection or audio collection– Like a FreeNAS. Ooh. At the least, a shared folder on your Mac or PC.

And we were able to organize that using XBMC. Excuse me, exploiting OpenELEC. So it’s very similar. You go into Add Videos, you Browse. And then from there, you want to go all the way down to Windows Network, SMB. And then from there, you’ll see your workgroup and the PC that you want. And then you should hopefully picture the folder that you shared. So in this case, I shared my Downloads folder. So we’ll go ahead and add that. All right, so our Downloads folder is added.

And then you can see all of the different nonsense that we have here. Cool. So I’ve got a video datum now that we can play. And hopefully it’ll manipulate. Ignore all those other ones since this is a personal computer. So you don’t want to know. A couple of things you don’t– You don’t want to know.

Have you been interring organizations again? Not quite as bad. Yay, media. It acted. Cool. So as you can see, it’s not instantaneous sort of situation. But it’s still labouring. You’ll have to wait a little bit. So coming media to represent in your Raspberry Pi from a USB thumb drive, a USB hard drive, or off of a machine or a FreeNAS box, or UPnP server on your home server in your house is pretty easy.

Pretty simple and pretty free. Yeah. But doing things like Netflix and Amazon Video, which we mentioned earlier, that, you’re going to need some software that you need to pay for. Yeah. So it used to be that there was an API for Netflix that allowed makes like the XBMC gang to generate plug-ins or machines or software– whatever you want to call it. It was actually, really easy to access Netflix’s business. Forget it. It’s gone. Yeah. What there is, however, is playon.tv.

So for either an annual reward or a lifetime subscription, you basically– let’s call it $20 to $120, depending on whether you buy it on sale for a year or for lifetime, get the HD version, don’t get the come copy, get PlayLater.

But in any event, playon.tv– I conclude for $20, we got playon.tv. And we set that on now. Yeah. And so the setup for that is, you likewise include the records. But in this case, you include it as a universal plug-and-play source.

Right. So we have this put up now where we have Amazon and Netflix computed. And we should point out, the first time we computed it, we got it to connect. But nothing would dally because we needed to actually acquire the MPEG-2 codec for Raspberry Pi. Which is another$ 2 or so, whatever British pounds convert to. So you purchase the codec on the raspberrypi.org website. You configure it in the text file. Basically you sour a key on that opens it. And then formerly you have that running– you have your PlayOn server running– then it precisely drives how you would expect media to be. So here’s all of a assortment of Adventure Time episodes.

Is this your Adventure– so obviously, not a Netflix boundary right now.

And you’re going to need a Netflix subscription, or whatever insurance premiums business that you do. But I’d say it starts faster than the Windows shared media. Oh, the mockery. And then you got some nonsense. Some definite compressing going on, but it’s better than no Netflix, I’d say. Right. Because essentially, playon.tv is grabbing your legit Netflix account, recompressing it, and streaming it over the interwebs.

So for $30 for the purposes of an annual reward, I was a little disappointed with the interface they intent up with on XBMC.

Yeah. At that top, you are able to as well precisely get a Chromecast and then get a better ordeal. But for free nonsense, if you previously have tons of media, and you have a Raspberry Pi, why not build a Raspberry Pi media server? And if we’re doing Netflix bad through playon.tv, mention down below on YouTube or tweet @diytryin. Or send us an email, diytryin @revision3. com.

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Subscribe, diytryin.com or youtube.com/ diytryin. Goodbye. Whoa. That was a good one. Man. All righty. Kind of hurt. I’ll delayed until this isn’t working anymore. And yeah, we’ll gather up a keyboard, and we’ll do all that again. And then from there, everything is going to work perfectly. I don’t know what just happened there. I apologize ..

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