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I have two Pis, one is a headless NAS and music player, near the amp. The other is a media center strapped to the back of the TV. None requires a mouse or a key
by gbog 14y ago
I have two Pis, one is a headless NAS and music player, near the amp. The other is a media center strapped to the back of the TV. None requires a mouse or a keyboard, as I control them from our handhelds. I never hear them, nor need to reboot them.
I think this is a future for computing: remote UI, ssh-able services machines.
But it is also a bit messy, because the NAS exposes files as Upnp, Dlna and smb.
- _djo_ 14y agoWhich software did you use for both setups? I presume Raspbmc for the media centre?
- supergauntlet 14y agoNot OP, but you could probably run the debian version created for the Pi, and then just install whatever packages (samba, webmin, etc) you needed on top of that. We have 1 Pi at home running RaspBMC and it's great. The thing I like most about the Raspberry Pi is that you can swap out SD cards and reboot, and suddenly have a totally different machine, doing something totally different.
- gbog 14y ago> swap out SD cards and reboot That's something I was wondering about: is there some state inside the Rpi itself? If not, then a system backup/restore is only a matter of dding on the SDcard.
- supergauntlet 14y agoThat's essentially it, nothing is stored anywhere else. You could theoretically just have a bunch of disk images sitting on your desktop and write to the the RPi SD card whatever image you wanted it to run.
- gbog 14y agoYes, RaspBMC for the media center. Plain Raspbian for the NAS/music player, plus Samba, mpd, minidlna. I am not perfectly satisfied with RaspBMC however. I'd rather build the thing myself, piece by piece, so I have only what I need and know what to change when my needs change.