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I have oved away from XBMC as it seemed the backing just was not there, instead I invested in a Popcorn Hour then setup YAMJ and boom all the HD media streaming you could ever want. On the plus side the NMT Popcorn hour runs Linux so you can add your own apps. Serious food for thought dude. The Popcorn Hour is a cool piece of kit make no mistake. But 3 things concern me. (1)A quick Google reveals that £ price == $ price which is a bit steep even these days, (2)It's droped YouTube support and (3)I see no mention of iPlayer. My requirements aren't for the classic media store but for a lightweight universal streaming client. For that I think the best thing is a modern well supported OS with a modern browser, on hardware fast enough to cope with HD decompression. I see the future of HD TV as Internet based, HD Freeview etc will start to seem rather stale by the middle of the decade. The Beagleboard is a little too lightweight I think, but something like this looks a lot more interesting. www.ebuyer.com/product/167153
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"Jeremy Clarkson, a man we motor enthusiasts need on our side like Lewis Hamilton's F1 car needs a towing ball and a Sprite Musketeer" My motor
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Dec 15, 2009 21:12:14 GMT
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More testing... I downloaded scantool (scantool.net) It's a command line driven diagnostic tool for OBD2 protocols, wont work on the scorpio but I used it today on a golf to read codes and reset the engine warning light (MIL) plus I used obdgpslogger on a test drive in the same car.
The beagleboard looks dangerously useful for the sort of app I have in mind, lol.
PS... this isn't the "media PC" thread..... lol
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The beagleboard looks dangerously useful for the sort of app I have in mind, lol. PS... this isn't the "media PC" thread..... lol In the context of low power specialist computer hardware a brief mention of the Beagleboard's lack of suitability for the application I have for an ultra-low-power PC is entirely on topic The thing with the Beagleboard is it's one of those boards that 's so special it makes you try to think of applications for it. It's just over a hundred quid from the UK distributor BTW. It really needs an Ethernet port to be a bit more useful but a USB item isn't too expensive. For the full-on retro experience on an ARM based board, I wonder if there's a RiscOS port?
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"Jeremy Clarkson, a man we motor enthusiasts need on our side like Lewis Hamilton's F1 car needs a towing ball and a Sprite Musketeer" My motor
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Dec 24, 2009 17:04:23 GMT
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Anyhoo.... update time Lots of testing and trying on several different cars. FWIW, volkswagen speedos are much closer to the gps reported speed than other makes. A 2000 golf GTI I borrowed was 100% accurate, compared to the scorpio's 10% under-reading. Track logging makes for some interesting discoveries too. Here is yesterday's route back from my parent's place. I do this journey a lot, and I was interested in how optimal my route is. Ignore the funny bit at the end.. I had to detour via ASDA and do some shopping lol. it's a good toy this. Anyway, I asked googlebot for a route. It picked this one. I prefer mine.
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Dec 27, 2009 14:44:39 GMT
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just read back through this thread and makes alot more sense, ive just gotten a samsung n130 for christmas, which made this thread alot more interesting and the urge attempt to understand, as you were saying early about anpr system and you couldn't have a constant internet connection, surely one of those "dongles" that run form a simcard could come in rather handy? unless ive missed the point all together.....
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1984 gtm coupe 1979 mini clubman estate pickup 1990 mini racing green 1996 mini sprite 1992 maestro 500 van 1995 fiat cinquecento
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Dec 27, 2009 16:56:05 GMT
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^^ yes, the moile internet dongles are quite useful borrowed one to try out (Autodetected, had to make an config file for it, then it works fine ) so it's possible to upload position info, access useful internet info etc. I can get one for £5 per month if I can get away with a 500mb data allowance. (500 meg used to sound so huge... but basically I only want to exchange text files on the go, an hours logging is about 600k of ascii and a position report is tiny (like about 50 bytes). Just had a look at the samsung (on google) thats a nice looking little netbook, about the same power and spec as an acer aspire one. What OS are you running?
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Dec 27, 2009 17:12:48 GMT
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yeah its a nice little netbook for interent browsing for things which is what it'll be mostly used for, its running xp at the moment but i really am thinking of running a partition and trying linux, on another note just dug the old toshiba laptop form the cupboard which has a broken charger port, think i will hard wire the charger into it and run linux from that and generally have a play!
same as my phone then on that dongle it has a 500mb allowance each month(fair usage charge for browsing) as it happens though my phone has a handy grps system built in, its helped me out a few times getting lost on my way to shows
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1984 gtm coupe 1979 mini clubman estate pickup 1990 mini racing green 1996 mini sprite 1992 maestro 500 van 1995 fiat cinquecento
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Ooops... I sort of spilt a cup of coffee on the eeePC Mostly it is fine but there is a track of keys from L down to Left shift not working so I've taken the advice of this thread forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=51817and removed the keyboard (note special tool - phone top up card) and the keyboard is now swimming in the sink in the hopes of washing the residue out of it. Worst case, off to ebay for a new keyboard I'll let you all know how it goes. In other news, related to my car hacking projects, I just bought an arduino to play with ;D the beagleboard is, like I mentioned, a little overkill for the moment, I have a few ideas that the arduino should implement nicely. Nicest thing about it is it's open source, even the hardware. Once I've designed a module and programmed the chip, I can then remove it from the arduino and fit it to a "bare bones" custom board to run it on. Load up the arduino with another chip, bootloader it and start again ;D It's like PIC programming with all the ballache taken out of it ;D
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a little o/t but that is some sweet retro carpet there, my grandma's whole house was fitted out with that styling , that was until my stupid cousins decided she needed to go modern now the whole patina of my grandma's house is ruined
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1984 gtm coupe 1979 mini clubman estate pickup 1990 mini racing green 1996 mini sprite 1992 maestro 500 van 1995 fiat cinquecento
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lol, it was my gran's - we nabbed it when she moved to a bungalow (15 years ago)
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Keyboard washing update.... It's dried out, some keys have returned to life BUT it still has some dead keys (some of which weren't dead before). Back in the sink with it then, lol... PS I have a US style keyboard on the watch list on eBay cos they are half the price of a UK one If I end up buying I'll just swap some keys around
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remember my N35? the acer pda/satnav I mentioned on about page 2 or 3...no? here's a recap. It's awful. Windows CE version 4 isn't the most flexible OS in the world (winCE is right, lol) I mean, the reader software won't actualy read a pdf, for example (I can buy books from microshaft's website, all nicely keysigned to the device so I can't even back em up..) and the navigation software is buggy, restricted and annoying. PLUS it wont reveal its gps info to other devices. Googling "n35 linux" in a hope of rescuing it gives bleak news. No-one bothered. That's why it was under conor's bed when I went hunting for it this evening. But why, if it's useless? Well, I found out something by accident. I hadn't taken any notice at all of the architecture INSIDE the acer, only it's GPS. Google led me to believe that whatever a samsung S3C2410 was, it's stuck with windows CE, live with it. I can't even upgrade the nav software to tom-tom8 cos it's too slow with not enough ram not that I was going to of course, it's just what google says. Thing is, its *actually* an ARM920T which is well supported, and now I'm looking at it properly, it's more like a beagleboard in a fancy case ;D So, in the spirit of adventure, I've patched and modded a kernel and played about (rather a lot) this evening and I've got this far I have a working kernel, root shell access, logged into the eeePC using ethernet over USB (which wouldn't work with winCE). what I don't have yet is a working OS. ArchLinux looks like a prime candidate though. Goal here is to put standalone logging capabilities onto the PDA so I can hide it in someone's car and figure out where they go do useful, legal stuff with it. here's the terminal output from logging into the newly hacked PDA Seriously though, even though the "standard" kit for the acer is 1 usb lead and a charger it actually has usb (client) usb (host) RS-232 serial via the edge connector and (on the PCB inside) TTL serial as well as integrated GPS and an SD card slot. Compares quite favourably to the beagleboard in terms of spec and ram (and I already own it, it was £20 in a clearance shop, natch...) Also in other 1337 n00z I just bought a linksys WRT54GS router on ebay
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........my heads exploded
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room.
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rysz
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Also in other 1337 n00z I just bought a linksys WRT54GS router on ebay DDWRT Firmware? I have a WRT54GL and this is running this - awesome stuff! Rysz.
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........my heads exploded What, both of them? too many pan-galactic gargleblasters ;D Also in other 1337 n00z I just bought a linksys WRT54GS router on ebay DDWRT Firmware? I have a WRT54GL and this is running this - awesome stuff! Rysz. OpenWRT, hopefully ... at any rate, I'm not planning to use it as an internet router. suggest you google WRT54G hardware hacks and have a look what it's capable of becoming
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you going to build a wifi robot? now thats a thing i would like to see, they can work upto 500 metres away, some even have webcams fitted but i have a question? what would it be used for?
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yes and no... I like the idea of monitoring and controlling stuff from a distance, but I don't have a need for a robot like the pic as such... think much, much bigger (with doors and an engine, lol)
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automatic automobile, plus servo's? would be an r/c car of epic proportions, don't know what the police wpuld say if you drove it around following behind in another vehicle, with no driver
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Last Edit: Jan 3, 2010 17:44:25 GMT by rooster
1984 gtm coupe 1979 mini clubman estate pickup 1990 mini racing green 1996 mini sprite 1992 maestro 500 van 1995 fiat cinquecento
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Yeah, I think what we need is a blue Nissan Prairie and this guy.. lol.
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