Configuring Raspberry

 

Index:
Common Raspberry configuration
Configuring XBMC
Configuring Openelec
Configuring RaspBMC
Configuring Raspbian
Configuring RiscOS

 

Common Raspberry configuration

http://elinux.org/RPiconfig#
System configuration parameters that would normally be kept and set using the BIOS are now stored in a text file named "config.txt". 

http://elinux.org/R-Pi_ConfigurationFile
http://www.raspians.com/Knowledgebase/raspberry-pi-configuration-file/
Including an example configuration file with comments

i.e

Make display smaller to stop text spilling off the screen

## overscan_left
##     Number of pixels to skip on left
overscan_left=20

http://elinux.org/RPi_cmdline.txt
File is for passing arguments to the Linux kernel and it can be found in /boot/
i.e   ip=192.168.0.10    (Static ip for direct RJ45 cable connect)

Configuring XBMC

-Scrape directories to download art work, information, categories,...
Movie add-ons: filmaffinity,..
Over a folder, set content, select scraper.

-TV a la carta
blog.tvalacarta.info/plugin-xbmc/

Manage  xbmc  from an Android and WIFI:
XBMC Remote 
(default port:8080)

Kore
Seetings, Services, Webserver, Allow control via HTTP
(default port:80)
(activate in Raspberry)

Configuring Openelec

Network, programs, openelec configuration, Connections

Install addons
Programs, Openelec configuration, Addons
XBMC backups
CU lrc lyrics

Create a backup
programs, openelec settings, system, backup
->storage/XBMC

Configuring RaspBMC

As backup feature is not included, addon XBMC backup can be installed  but it is not working  (tested on ver 2014-06) 
Install/config from Addons, Program Addons
Execute from from "Programs"; but it will not show an icon

SSH from a linux terminal, requires to specify that user is "pi"
ssh pi@x.x.x.x

Configuring Raspbian

 

multimedia player GUI for omx player

sudo raspi-config
configure keyboard layout

>>>from https://github.com/KenT2/tboplayer
tboplayer
A GUI interface using jbaiter's pyomxplayer wrapper to control omxplayer

Required pexpect:
wget http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/pexpect-2.3.tar.gz
     tar xzf pexpect-2.3.tar.gz
     cd pexpect-2.3
     sudo python ./setup.py install

Installing tboplayer:
From a terminal window open in your home directory type:
     wget https://github.com/KenT2/tboplayer/tarball/master -O - | tar xz

There should now be a directory 'KenT2-tboplayer-xxxx' in your home directory. Rename the directory to tboplayer

Open the tboplayer directory and from a terminal opened in THIS directory:

    python tboplayer.py

TBOPlayer is developed on Raspbian Wheezy with python 2.7
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Useful software for Raspbian/RapberryOS:

matchbox-keyboard (on screen keyboard)

gnumeric
abiword
sylpheed (email)
gmusicbrowser (music browser)
gstreamer
GNOME partition editor (gparted)
xarchiver
pyneighborhood
mp3

RealVNC  (android, win, linux)

(preinstalled) RealVNC (not compatible with other clients)
tightvnc-server  (launch with vncserver :1) ¿by default port 5901?

From PiStore
Pi-Web-Agent (l/p admin/admin)
sudo /etc/init.d/pi-web-agent start
from local https://127.0.0.1:8004
from remote https://192.168.1.109:8003

Packages from CLI:
nmap
apt-get install nmap --no-install-recommends
pistore

sudo apt-get install pistore

Configuring RiscOS

Its is not CRT friendly. Default image works with a CRT screen however, Risc OS has a screen resolution is too high for a CRT TV and it is impossible to use the OS.

Configuring OSMC

Install from AppStore:

SSH Server
Samba SMB
FTP Server

Addons from: "Programs" ,"Addons"


SSH
default login/password: osmc/osmc