Raspberry Pi adventures!
Jan. 28th, 2020 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torkellYes, I'm trying to get yet another embedded Linux system to behave.
As part of the pile of computer upgrades (that's a blog post in its own), I need a replacement for Windows Media Center. So the thinking is to stick a TV Hat on a Raspberry Pi, stuff it somewhere behind the TV, and install Kodi on it. Simple, right? For a distro I'm starting with OSMC which started life as a Pi-specific media center.
A slight wrinkle is ideally I want to connect the Pi over WiFi, but I have a Pi 2 and so will need a USB WiFi adapter. Documentation on just what's supported is scarce - the general consensus seems to be that 802.11n adapters will likely work, and nobody will admit to anything about 802.11ac. I want to use 802.11ac partially for the extra bandwidth (not that it's all that significant, given the USB 2.0 connection I'll be using) but mainly for future-proofing and better integration with the pile of network upgrades that's also coming along.
I got the first part of the puzzle (the TV Hat) nearly two months ago... and then never got round to the rest of the setup. Um. Anyway, yesterday a few more pieces of the puzzle arrived (I'm sure I've got another USB WiFi adapter and a HDMI cable somewhere, but whatever), and so it was time to see if it willblend work!
And the answer is: yes!
Well, mostly. The Pi's not entirely happy with the maybe 4.75V the front USB ports on my computer spit out under load (SpeedFan reports a system voltage of 4.99V, so someday I'll have to take a look at the internal wiring) but consented to boot and install OSMC. The wireless keyboard/touchpad (a Logitech K400+) Just Worked as well, but networking was another matter and the OSMC installer didn't detect the WiFi adapter (a TP-Link Archer T2 Nano). Not to matter - as I'm at Nyx, I just bridged its WiFi and ethernet together and connected the Pi to Nyx via ethernet. That was enough to get the Pi on my network and to download updates.
As part of the pile of computer upgrades (that's a blog post in its own), I need a replacement for Windows Media Center. So the thinking is to stick a TV Hat on a Raspberry Pi, stuff it somewhere behind the TV, and install Kodi on it. Simple, right? For a distro I'm starting with OSMC which started life as a Pi-specific media center.
A slight wrinkle is ideally I want to connect the Pi over WiFi, but I have a Pi 2 and so will need a USB WiFi adapter. Documentation on just what's supported is scarce - the general consensus seems to be that 802.11n adapters will likely work, and nobody will admit to anything about 802.11ac. I want to use 802.11ac partially for the extra bandwidth (not that it's all that significant, given the USB 2.0 connection I'll be using) but mainly for future-proofing and better integration with the pile of network upgrades that's also coming along.
I got the first part of the puzzle (the TV Hat) nearly two months ago... and then never got round to the rest of the setup. Um. Anyway, yesterday a few more pieces of the puzzle arrived (I'm sure I've got another USB WiFi adapter and a HDMI cable somewhere, but whatever), and so it was time to see if it will
And the answer is: yes!
Well, mostly. The Pi's not entirely happy with the maybe 4.75V the front USB ports on my computer spit out under load (SpeedFan reports a system voltage of 4.99V, so someday I'll have to take a look at the internal wiring) but consented to boot and install OSMC. The wireless keyboard/touchpad (a Logitech K400+) Just Worked as well, but networking was another matter and the OSMC installer didn't detect the WiFi adapter (a TP-Link Archer T2 Nano). Not to matter - as I'm at Nyx, I just bridged its WiFi and ethernet together and connected the Pi to Nyx via ethernet. That was enough to get the Pi on my network and to download updates.
