2013-01-17, 11:30
I purchased a raspberri pi with xbmc 12 preinstalled.
I did not buy it for hacking the thing, but just to be a dumb user, enyoi the movies on my harddisk.
Just like a normal family hustband / father. Not being technicall skilled in computer science at all.
( I can mow the lawn however
)
Is this forum somehow controlled by the people who design the xbmc ?
I did connect the cables and power it on.
And it works. That was really great.
Remote Control.
This was painfull. I wanted to use the phone and tablet.
Mainly tablet, since I have different glasses, and I cannot see the text on
the remote ( or phone ) when watching tv
It turned out I had to scan the picture found via this web site, and then
do some magic on the tablet to get this thing installed.
This is too complicated.
The app for scanning this strange pictures did not use the camera on the back of the tablet, and I ended up trying to get the camera working, and making a picture of the computer screen for installing an app to control the xbmc.
This is NOT user friendly, and I hope the new app will be available via the normal channel, the app-store or whatever.
Then tweak some port settings etc. etc. Why does the default not work ? Except from usual config like ip and user name. ( altough it should not be that difficult to find xbmc devices on a network, since a simple printer can do stuff like that )
I managed to do it on the end, but I am worried about the future. If the remote does not work, ( Or something else) it will
consume a lot of time to find the cause on a forum etc. The people on the forum seem to think all users spend
their time reading forums, which is not.
The weather application is only in Farenheit. I have no idea about the temperature in Fahrenheid. I use celcius, but I am unable to change this. Suggestion please.
I am unable to figure out how to play and add, handle a dvd rip.
It is a little bit complicated. I have to browse to the directory, and select, add a name, and then I am lost.
The iso, I cannot select at all.
The previous test on a lubuntu laptop (version 11 did play the same dvd rip )
The mkv file will play fine.
A blue ray rip is a disaster, sound and video are out of sync, and the film is not playing very well ( Maybe due to bandwith over the network )
Please explain how it should work, Or what and how I have to do it.
From my dumb user perspective I would like to select a directory, and let the "thing" scan the directory, which give a list of playable movies, and those will play when I select one and press play.
I am in general very happy with the device.
It will be used to replace the very unreliable dvd player, which seems to be too difficult to perform as promised.
Freaky event was the ease to browse via nfs to my computer, and browse on it without any problem. Those things make me happy.
Very good image quality. and very nice looking menu. It is a pleasure to use.
Please respond on how to use it most easy on selecting the dvd rip's and / or iso files.
Regards,
Floppy.
I did not buy it for hacking the thing, but just to be a dumb user, enyoi the movies on my harddisk.
Just like a normal family hustband / father. Not being technicall skilled in computer science at all.
( I can mow the lawn however
)Is this forum somehow controlled by the people who design the xbmc ?
I did connect the cables and power it on.
And it works. That was really great.
Remote Control.
This was painfull. I wanted to use the phone and tablet.
Mainly tablet, since I have different glasses, and I cannot see the text on
the remote ( or phone ) when watching tv
It turned out I had to scan the picture found via this web site, and then
do some magic on the tablet to get this thing installed.
This is too complicated.
The app for scanning this strange pictures did not use the camera on the back of the tablet, and I ended up trying to get the camera working, and making a picture of the computer screen for installing an app to control the xbmc.
This is NOT user friendly, and I hope the new app will be available via the normal channel, the app-store or whatever.
Then tweak some port settings etc. etc. Why does the default not work ? Except from usual config like ip and user name. ( altough it should not be that difficult to find xbmc devices on a network, since a simple printer can do stuff like that )
I managed to do it on the end, but I am worried about the future. If the remote does not work, ( Or something else) it will
consume a lot of time to find the cause on a forum etc. The people on the forum seem to think all users spend
their time reading forums, which is not.
The weather application is only in Farenheit. I have no idea about the temperature in Fahrenheid. I use celcius, but I am unable to change this. Suggestion please.
I am unable to figure out how to play and add, handle a dvd rip.
It is a little bit complicated. I have to browse to the directory, and select, add a name, and then I am lost.
The iso, I cannot select at all.
The previous test on a lubuntu laptop (version 11 did play the same dvd rip )
The mkv file will play fine.
A blue ray rip is a disaster, sound and video are out of sync, and the film is not playing very well ( Maybe due to bandwith over the network )
Please explain how it should work, Or what and how I have to do it.
From my dumb user perspective I would like to select a directory, and let the "thing" scan the directory, which give a list of playable movies, and those will play when I select one and press play.
I am in general very happy with the device.
It will be used to replace the very unreliable dvd player, which seems to be too difficult to perform as promised.
Freaky event was the ease to browse via nfs to my computer, and browse on it without any problem. Those things make me happy.
Very good image quality. and very nice looking menu. It is a pleasure to use.
Please respond on how to use it most easy on selecting the dvd rip's and / or iso files.
Regards,
Floppy.
