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Not nearly as elegant of a solution, but I've found that my Pi 3 does a great job of being the 'media box' I've been using my 2nd gen (I think?) Apple TV for.
by quake 9y ago
Not nearly as elegant of a solution, but I've found that my Pi 3 does a great job of being the 'media box' I've been using my 2nd gen (I think?) Apple TV for. I've been using it with OSMC, wireless keyboard with trackpad, an external hard drive, and an xbox 360 controller. Great little media box. OSMC is dirt simple, I could probably give it to my parents and they'd figure out how to use it pretty quickly.
Of course if I wanted to do computing I'd just use one of the desktop distros.
- nfriedly 9y agoYea, I tried that with a first-gen PI and decided it wasn't fast enough, but I imagine the current-gen ones would be. It also didn't seem quite flexible enough, though - I do a lot of browser-based stuff (Youtube, Netflix, Plex, PBS Video, etc.) And I have a blu-ray drive connected - I usually just rip CDs and movies to my plex server as soon as I buy them, but occasionally I want to play something right away. And, lastly, I occasionally just use the TV computer to look up random things on the internet. So, I think I'm stuck with a "real" computer for the time-being (meaning a desktop OS and browser, mostly). A Pi with a regular Raspbian install would probably work, but I've got everything set up and working well at this point, so no reason to change it.