What to do with a Raspberry Pi 4?
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But really I turned mine into a Kodi box that I don't even ever use, it just sits in a drawer now.
I know it's cheap, but that's still a waste of money since it's only a matter of time for Pi 4 to be fully running. I'm pretty sure the experts working on it are motivated enough by the better RAM and CPU.
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I'd say buy a 3 or wait for the 4 to be fully supported.
Still, that depends on what you want to do.. If you want a network appliance like VPN gateway/Radius server for WPA-Enterprise/NAS/DLNA then it's a go, if you need media on TV right now RPi 3 is faring much better.
The thing with automation systems is I don't care much as I live in an apartment, oddly enough a client once paid me to develop a home automation system using a SBC other than the RPi, a Samsung mini2416.
I could ask them for a piece, although I don't believe they still sell it, but I don't like running cables throughout the apartment. I guess that's what deter most
Kodi is not supported so far, LibElec says it's somewhat supported, but that went did not work for me.
I thought the same at first, yet it's been 9 months already and no support, not even good signs of it, I'm starting to think video support is not coming.
If I knew it would take 9+ months I'd have bought the 3, played a lot of emulators and later buy the 4th whenever it's ready for prime time.
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I guess I don't really understand what the obsession with Kodi is. Anything you could ever possibly want can either be streamed or torrented.
I've set up a Kodi media server on a Raspberry Pi 3, and it was OKish for shmillegal streaming, but the quality and the network connection sucked. Why not just use Popcorn Time? What are you really getting out of Kodi?
I've set up a Kodi media server on a Raspberry Pi 3, and it was OKish for shmillegal streaming, but the quality and the network connection sucked. Why not just use Popcorn Time? What are you really getting out of Kodi?
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Run a server on it, but the three does it just as well. That's what it's best suited of all in my view. It's good as an emulator box if small formfactor is required and/or complete silence (heatsink case) : otherwise any old laptop emulates whatever the Pi does as good or much much better with much less hassle.
People do all sorts of projects, I've just never seen anything I had any use for so the project seemed like more fun than the actual result. I think more creative things are done with Arduino.
People do all sorts of projects, I've just never seen anything I had any use for so the project seemed like more fun than the actual result. I think more creative things are done with Arduino.
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In my case I use transmission+miniDLNA on my x86 NAS, the whole download/TV delivery of media is sorted.
DLNA has a nice feat that you can use a controller (cell phone) to deliver media from a server (NAS) to a player (TV).
Just wanted to do something with this RPi 4 that's on a drawer for months unattended, but I'm kinda giving up on it, I'll leave it at its drawer until whenever :v
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I haven't kept up on the Pi stuff with the 4, but I know the 3 on down could have some video issues because they were using a closed source GPU and couldn't get the code from the company.
Personally I use the first gen for Pi-hole and a 3 for an HTPC (kodi mostly).
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The thing with video on RPi 3 was that you had to use its vendor-supplied video player (omxplayer) to get HW h264/h265 decoding, a lot of people got pissed at it, still omxplayer worked most of the time.
I partially have given up on my RPi 4, I'll try OpenWRT at it as it is officialy supported, yet RPi4's 1x1 radio is far from the best... Still a 45$ 802.11ac AP with USB 3.0, 4gb ram/quad core cpu and stuff seems an ok deal here, there I might use Pi-hole as DNS server as well.
Next I'll set up a Raspbian with hostapd/bridge-utils on a secondary TF card to spawn an equivalent AP/router just without the web interface
Then I'll decide over either OpenWRT (standard, with web interface) or Raspbian (with a bunch of services set up like samba/hostapd, no web interface, yet capable of running emulators/video players with a keyboard), might even run a mednafen standalone server for people to play.
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And house it inside the mini version:
This has been Craftdemic! We'll see you, well, right fuckng now because it's always fucking on.
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Yeah, I was all in on Kodi a few years ago and got an Android TV thing to run Kodi for pretty cheap (like $30). It was interesting, but trying to find reliable streams was a PITA after a while. I don't think I've used it in a two years or so.
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lmao. I sell a lot of these for my job.
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Agreed
I had an almost identical experience. I bought an Amazon fireTV to use as a kodi box a few years ago. It didn't take long to decide that I'd rather just plug a PC into my TV than deal with Kodi just to get a similarly low quality stream.
I'd love it if someone could explain to me what I was doing wrong or why I should like Kodi.
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For $45 I think it's a neat little device to tinker with. If I wanted to build an emulation machine or htpc I'd lean towards a used prebuilt if you have the required room. Something like this.
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Unless you're running a 64 bit OS the 8gb isn't really worth it.
