Just Ordered One of These

[Spacecadet]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/MK808-Androi...5953590&sr=8-1

[Cliphead]

MK808 Dual Core Android 4.1 TV BOX Rockchip RK3066: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

I have one of these which I put Linux on, very nice.

Android MK802 Mini PC

You'll have much fun with it.

[vetran]

Just got two of these.

Raspberry Pi | An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte!

XBMC on one (soon to be with TvHeadend)

Asterisk + some HA on the other.

awesome beasts mainly because of the community round them.

[Spacecadet]

Re: Just Ordered One of These

Raspberry Pi | An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte!

XBMC on one (soon to be with TvHeadend)

Asterisk + some HA on the other.

awesome beasts mainly because of the community round them.

They seemed like slightly too much effort, the android box should work as soon as it's plugged in and it comes with a handy free dust cover over the electronics

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They seemed like slightly too much effort, the android box should work as soon as it's plugged in and it comes with a handy free dust cover over the electronics

So copying a file onto a sd card and plugging it into the raspberry pi is too much like hard work.

Each to their own I suppose.

[The Spartan]

Speaking of Raspberry Pi has anyone used it with Ruby?

[Spacecadet]

Re: Just Ordered One of These

So copying a file onto a sd card and plugging it into the raspberry pi is too much like hard work.

Each to their own I suppose.

I did say slightly too much effort
Advantage of this is that I plug it in, sign into Google and should get all my apps and data.

I've no inclination to devote what little spare time I have to a raspberry pi at the moment, they do look fun, but GTA V looks like more fun

[Spacecadet]

Turned up today and works a treat

One slight annoyance is that the BBC iPlayer app doesn't work, or rather the BBC don't let the app run on "unrecognised" devices! I can still access iPlayer through the website though

The only other annoying thing is that I was hoping to power it directly from the USB port on the TV. That did work until I started playing a video file at which point I realised that there was a lot of background noise. Plugging into the mains fixed that - not sure what the issue is, maybe it's just a grounding reference problem for the HDMI connection or just the fact that it was forced to reboot as I switched power sources.

Plex runs and streams HD video from my laptop PC to the device.

External USB stick works without any issues

Plugged in an external drive and that crashed the device but I was expecting that as the power being drawn is too high, it will need a powered USB hub for that to work properly

The keyboard and mouse remote control I got as part of the package feels extremely cheap but worked straight away.

For under £50 it's not a bad piece of equipment!

[Cliphead]

Turned up today and works a treat

One slight annoyance is that the BBC iPlayer app doesn't work, or rather the BBC don't let the app run on "unrecognised" devices! I can still access iPlayer through the website though

The only other annoying thing is that I was hoping to power it directly from the USB port on the TV. That did work until I started playing a video file at which point I realised that there was a lot of background noise. Plugging into the mains fixed that - not sure what the issue is, maybe it's just a grounding reference problem for the HDMI connection or just the fact that it was forced to reboot as I switched power sources.

Plex runs and streams HD video from my laptop PC to the device.

External USB stick works without any issues

Plugged in an external drive and that crashed the device but I was expecting that as the power being drawn is too high, it will need a powered USB hub for that to work properly

The keyboard and mouse remote control I got as part of the package feels extremely cheap but worked straight away.

For under £50 it's not a bad piece of equipment!

I'm using mine as an Apache server live on t'internet for some dev testing. I used to have a dedicated PC for that not to mention the Cobalt Raq4's that are sitting in a rack unused.

[vetran]

well its a bit difficult to do on a PI! Took me 2 mins.

How to turn your Raspberry Pi into an XBMC media centre | Reviews | CNET UK

runs a treat by the way.

usb LCD, Tvheadend & LIRC to go

then we need a nice case.