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RiOT Project Idea : Turn it into a Media Center with NAS features

GregC

Hi all,

 

I ordered a Riot board and want to do a Media Center (XBMC or PlexMedia) with some NAS features to share some photos with my family via internet.

I guess the Riot thanks to its i.MX6 (ARM Cortex-A9 running up to 1GHz) and its fast 1GB DDR3 @800MHz should be able to handle it, simply cause the Raspberry-Pi can handle it with a slower processor and less/slower memory.

I reviewed your documents and found some interesting informations how to set-up the board, but nothing about those kind of "application usages"

 

My Questions for you are:

1. Do you think the RiOT board can handle this ?

2. Did you already succeeded to run such an application on your board (even with partial features) ?

3. Do you have some simple guide/tutorial to recommend to make it work on my board ?

 

I am not a Linux expert so it could be nice if you could provide me simple instructions to "impress" my kids ;D


Thanks in advance for your help

Greg

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  • 1. XBMC is with RaspBMC for example highly optimized directly for the Raspberry pi. I think the Riotboard should be able to handle it, but not without further optimization.

    2. Didn´t try to install XBMC or similar until now. Will try it someday.

    3. Except the standard installation guides of XBMC on Android or Linux there are no guides I know of for this direction.

     

    Easiest way to try it, would be installing the Android Version of XBMC with the provided apk. But then you´d have Sound problems which is being worked on right now.

    With Linux you don´t have that sound problems. But I don´t think you´d get it to run out of the box though.

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  • 1. XBMC is with RaspBMC for example highly optimized directly for the Raspberry pi. I think the Riotboard should be able to handle it, but not without further optimization.

    2. Didn´t try to install XBMC or similar until now. Will try it someday.

    3. Except the standard installation guides of XBMC on Android or Linux there are no guides I know of for this direction.

     

    Easiest way to try it, would be installing the Android Version of XBMC with the provided apk. But then you´d have Sound problems which is being worked on right now.

    With Linux you don´t have that sound problems. But I don´t think you´d get it to run out of the box though.

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