Your Raspberry Pi Projects

xrapidx said:
Thanks, yeh, Pishop I've checked, but its cheaper to import then.

Did a whole bundle of items, came to R2800 at Pishop, and R1700 at ModMyPi
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But then you need to factor in the greedy stealing trio of SAxx (SAPO, SARS, SAPS), and the 3 month waiting time, plus if anything breaks, you will have to go through the evil trio once again and hope your return reaches the other side. Sometimes you need to weigh up the pros and cons of local retailers vs grey imports.
 
Jack_Hammond said:
But then you need to factor in the greedy stealing trio of SAxx (SAPO, SARS, SAPS), and the 3 month waiting time, plus if anything breaks, you will have to go through the evil trio once again and hope your return reaches the other side. Sometimes you need to weigh up the pros and cons of local retailers vs grey imports.
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Not sure about UK but US is much faster definitely not 3 months... it's also just a singe board computer. Not a phone with battery and screen etc. Chances of something breaking is next to nothing.
 
Jack_Hammond said:
But then you need to factor in the greedy stealing trio of SAxx (SAPO, SARS, SAPS), and the 3 month waiting time, plus if anything breaks, you will have to go through the evil trio once again and hope your return reaches the other side. Sometimes you need to weigh up the pros and cons of local retailers vs grey imports.
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Ordered from Modmypi before without issue... also, afaik from previous experience - computer parts aren't taxed.

Looking at local prices, I'll be ordering from them again.
 
I only wanted the Raspberry Pi 3 and a case so I ordered from PiShop, the discounted price is only available until 15:00 for anyone wanting to order.
 
Soul Assassin said:
I only wanted the Raspberry Pi 3 and a case so I ordered from PiShop, the discounted price is only available until 15:00 for anyone wanting to order.
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Yeh, I'd be happy if it was just the Pi, but I need 3x everything.

I've got six Pi 1's - three of them in the classifieds (not in use), and I want to replace the other 3 (currently used) with Pi 3's
 
xrapidx said:
Yeh, I'd be happy if it was just the Pi, but I need 3x everything.

I've got six Pi 1's - three of them in the classifieds (not in use), and I want to replace the other 3 (currently used) with Pi 3's
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I saw that add the day you posted and thought it was the 3 you were selling until I properly checked. I thought I was about to score a bargain.
 
Soul Assassin said:
I saw that add the day you posted and thought it was the 3 you were selling until I properly checked. I thought I was about to score a bargain.
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Yip - that would have been a steal.

Actually have so many of the 1s - realised I actually have 9 - 3 are running quietly as LMS clients. The 3 I'm upgrading are running Libreelec. And then 3 probably haven't been used before :p

Also got to get one running the garden soon.

Anyway, ordered 3x starter kits from modmypi - 120 pounds.
 
xrapidx said:
Yip - that would have been a steal.

Actually have so many of the 1s - realised I actually have 9 - 3 are running quietly as LMS clients. The 3 I'm upgrading are running Libreelec. And then 3 probably haven't been used before :p

Also got to get one running the garden soon.

Anyway, ordered 3x starter kits from modmypi - 120 pounds.
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I don't actually have anything specific I wanted to do but I've always wanted one. I will be dual booting RasPlex and RetroPie, maybe Rasbian too just to check it out.
 
I didn't know the Raspberry Pi can play HEVC files, I played one just to see what would happen and it started right, I'm pretty sure it was direct playing too not transcoding.
 
Will do further testing tomorrow but currently I'm quite happy with the triple boot Rasbian, RasPlex and RetroPie.

It's surprisingly quick for such a low powered device, just have to precache Plex, add a ton of ROMs to RetroPie, scrape the meta data and I think I'll be very haply.

Edit: 720P HEVC played just fine and it was direct playing, 1080P was dropping frames like crazy so that will have to be transcoded. Still very impressive that 720P HEVC direct plays.
 
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I've done some testing with HEVC - it can play a bit, but depends on how the file was encoded. The Pi3 can't really do the very high compression stuff. If you look at the official spec from the Pi foundation and look at the spec of the GPU it uses, they do say it's only partial HEVC support. That's been my experience as well.
 
Hows the actual menu browsing, etc in kodi?

I've got one or two things that don't play, haven't bothered checking the encoding, so it'll be interesting to see if they work on the Pi 3
 
I have a Pi2 that I use exclusively as a media center (OSMC )and linux distribution down loader. I don't have any of the extra codecs installed so I can't play dvd or BR rips but other than that I am happy. It has also passed SO UAT.
 
xrapidx said:
Hows the actual menu browsing, etc in kodi?

I've got one or two things that don't play, haven't bothered checking the encoding, so it'll be interesting to see if they work on the Pi 3
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Menu response from pi 1 to 2 was chalk and cheese. I've been using a pi to with openelec for a while now without issue. Kodi is very responsive.
 
Is anyone using a Pi 3 for Plex ?

My Sonarr install is going great guns so now I am considering adding Plex.
 
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