Rocking The Rocking Raspberry Pi Challenge.. Part 4 - Connecting to Wi-Fi and Playing YouTube Videos....

26 Feb 2014

In this post I will be discussing about what I did this week and how I did it, what problems I faced and what I am going to do in the coming weeks... I will be sharing every thing with you guys, yes every thing !!!!

I received my Kit this week, Below is the unboxing video...

After that the first thing that I did was to boot the Raspberry Pi, I chose Raspbian as The OS, it was easy as we were provided with a 8 GB SD card per-installed with NOOBS ( New Out Of the Box Software ). But before installing the OS I copied the contents of the card in a folder in my PC, in case some thing horrible happens I wont have to Download 1.3 GB of software again, And I strongly recommend doing the same to all reading my posts...

Below Is the Installation Video...

It takes allot of time for installation so be patient....

After that next thing I did was to configure The WiFi settings and connect to the internet, Wi-Pi is the USB WiFi dongle provided to us by Element14..

Here Is The Procedure to connect to your WiFi network...

1 ). On your Raspbian Desktop open The "WiFi config"...

2 ). Now a window will appear named " wpa_gui ", in that window click scan...

3 ). Now a new window will open named "scan results ", which will contain a list of all available WiFi networks, double click on the network you want to connect to..

4 ). Now another window will open named "Network Config", in this window in "PSK" enter your WiFi password and click "save"....

Now you are connected to the internet through WiFi, congrats !!!

You can double check that by going to the "Midori Browser"...

OK, the first thing I did after Raspberry Pi Got connected to WiFi was to Open The Midori Browser and went to YouTube and searched for Karaoke songs, i found many songs but when i tried to play one I found that I cannot as there is no flash player installed on RPi, so I had to down load one and install it, and now I am going to tell you how to down load and install it...

1 ). Open LXTerminal..

2 ). Type " sudo apt-get install gnash " in the LXTerminal and press Enter to run the command, ( gnash is a plugin for the browser and is a free and open-source alternative to Adobe Flash Player. which enables you to play Videos in Midori Browser ).

3 ). After some time it would ask you " ready to Unpack [Y/N] ? " or some thing like that, press " Y " and then press Enter.. By this the plugin will be installed, but still the browser will not be able to recognize it, so now we will have to make the browser recognize the plugin. It takes allot of time for installation so be patient....

4 ) Now Type " sudo apt-get install browser-plugin-gnash " and press Enter to run the command and let the process finish, ( this command installs another plugin which enables the browser to see the Gnash plugin...)

5 ) You are done now, Now you can play YouTube Videos in Midori Browser, Congrats !!!

Before Installing Gnash :

After Installing Gnash :

I think this much is enough for this post, in my next post I will discuss about some other things I Learned this week, and teach them to you as well....