Icecast creates audio streams on various platforms. Allowing for us to use the Raspberry Pi. It installs and runs smoothly on Raspbian Lite with a headless server setup for efficiency, but any flavor of Raspbian will do. Using Raspian Lite together with Icecast you can stream audio from any directory … read more
Looking for a lightweight home server OS for Raspberry Pi? Take a look at Diet Pi. This post shows how to setup Diet Pi on Raspberry Pi 3. Diet Pi is a truly optimized and lightweight operating system for Raspberry Pi. It is based on Debian, so even our famous … read more
Lots of complex guides have been written about enabling the Raspberry Pi to display a webpage on fullscreen, for utilities such as a Kiosk mode, or having the Pi display only a webpage, for specific purposes. This is the goal of FullPageOS, which is nothing more than a version of … read more
On February 29th, 2016 Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center (OpenELEC) announced its new OpenElec 6.0.3 Release. OpenELEC is a Linux distribution designed for home theater PCs and based on the Kodi media player. What’s New in OpenELEC 6.0.3 Release? This new OpenELEC 6.0.3 contains some improvements as a maintenance version, as well … read more
When the first Raspberry Pi was released, little did its creators suspect it would become the massive phenomenon in DIY computing around the world, and one of the most sold computers in the UK (surely other countries as well). The Raspberry Pi has seen its fair share of iterations and … read more
On November 1, 2015 Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center (OpenELEC) announced the release of OpenELEC 6.0 OpenELEC is a Linux distribution designed for home theater PCs and based on the Kodi media player. What’s New in OpenELEC 6.0 Release? The biggest change in OpenELEC 6.0 release is upgrade to Kodi … read more
Several geeks have been eager to run Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi from the day it was released. But the original Raspberry Pi was limited in power and hardware resources to support a full operating system without compromising user experience. The release of the new Raspberry Pi 2 changed this predicament. … read more
Let’s start the party and burn the couches, the all new Raspberry Pi 2 is now on sale for $35. Three years after the Raspberry Pi model B was launched in 2012, the Raspberry Pi foundation announced today that the release of highly anticipated next version of the credit card … read more
Overclocking Raspberry Pi on OpenELEC requires one to edit OpenELEC config files. Overclocking can bring, along with these Kodi performance improvement tips, can bring the best out of RaspberryPi. In fact, in my comparison, overclocked OpenELEC was better than Xbian or Raspbmc. It is one of the most common tweaks … read more