thinking about making a hummingboard device..anyone done this?

Basically it's like a beefed up Raspberry pi...

Not seen any for sale yet...maybe you guys in the US will have it first..

Interested in prices+feedback.

My bro uses a pi and for price works great so am thinking is the extra cpu power (i.e a quad v a 700hz) and the extra ram really worth the bump in price?

Also is it worth getting one with built in wifi...tbh dont see the need for this if you have a laptop etc etc...

 

i ordered it at newegg
and some other resellers are on their website...
will update u how it is running

 

am jealous...how much did you pay?

in the end i went with a pi...for £50 you cant go wrong..(well you know what I mean).

def would like to know about how yours pans out..

p.s welcome/wilkommen/bienvenue/benvenidos etc!!!!

 

Ive got a Pi, I used it for an XBMC media centre for a while but got sick of its lag and bugs, tried to use it as a linux box to mess with but got sick of its uselessness and taking 10 minutes to do anything

Now it sits in my dumping area doing nothing

 

great just what I want to hear...tbh I dont mind waiting while the thing transfer files etc...

i will mainly use it while on hols with family..

 

What you wanting to use it for?

Browsing is hopeless, it can't handle loading websites, CPU hits 100% and stays there, browsers are crappy, I think there is a Chromium build that works but it kills the Pi

The only thing it is any good for is text based programming, and watching videos as its chip has great x264 support - RaspBMC / OpenELEC etc work fine for watching videos, but in my experience it wasn't worth the headaches, network disconnecting from the stream even though the time still worked, which meant it had a network connection as it can not keep it's own time like a PC can

Switched to a laptop with XBMC and ditched the Pi


Mine is the original Model B though, 256MB RAM, the new B+ or whatever it's called has slightly better specs


EDIT - Actually you might want to check out RetroPi project, it runs emulators and old console games pretty well

 

just for movies and photos nothing else. (hence why I didnt wait for the hummingboard..decided that what I want it for it will be ok).

will be offline as much as possible...

so should be ok. yeah my bro is trying to use it for live streaming etc...

considering the price i paid for 64gb pendrive it's pretty good..(probably squeeze quite a bit on there).

 

I'd suggest one of the XBMC distros for the Pi if it's gonna be a media centre type machine, and OC it, most XBMC distros have that option during setup, I managed 940MHz from mine with openELEC

Movies and Pics should be fine, definitely offline they should be good, I was streaming via NAS and halfway through films it would freeze and eventually say "Network connection lost" or something similar, but it blatantly had not lost connection, as I said earlier it relies on the net to keep it's clock correct, which even with the network error it would still manage to do

Got a bit tedious rebooting the Pi halfway through films every night

It works for live streaming fine, to a point, not sure if it is the XBMC distros with the issue or the Pi itself, but happened to me with about 3-4 different XBMC distros and throughout numerous updates to each

EDIT - Yea you'll get a fair bit on a 64GB flash, depending on which Pi you've bought you might need a powered USB hub, mine only has 2 USB ports, and you can't extend them unless you use a powered hub, non-powered hubs pull too much from the Pi and everything stops

Keyboard & Mouse use both, I ended up dropping the mouse and sticking a WiFi dongle in instead

 

is the pi b+ so has 4 usb slots. will let u know how it works out later on in the week..

oc a pi? not sure i'd bother my little cousin has been there and done that ha!! (well actually not so little now..)

 

i already use the cubox for xbmc...working great...!

 

Yea, the majority of Pi OSs have OCing ability built into the setup process now, makes quite a difference going from 700MHz to 940MHz, like a 30%+ boost

It's just a set of clock speeds and vCores, you choose stock, medium, high, very high, Ultra etc

Yea I`ll be interested to hear how you get on, I was thinking about going for the B+ but didn't want to waste money on something Ive already got if there's not much improvement

There is a 512MB model too iirc

 

got my hummingboard i2ex now - works like charm...
anything i shall test?

 

how much was it in the end?

 

well got the pi working after some fiddling! works great so far for watching films and looking at pics on the panasonic..

gonna try with some live streaming. there's a Spanish channel so will be able to watch the spanish news etc which is great to keep my Spanish tip top

maybe live porn who knows hehe..

 

Are you running an XBMC distro?

If yes, check the repositories for more streams
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Unofficial_add-on_repositories

TV Catchup addon
http://plugins.tvcatchup.com/~xbmc/


FilmOn addon
http://superrepo.org/plugin.video.filmon/

 

Openelec. Thanks might have a look at those..tbh am ok with just movie playback etc.

 

iirc I settled for OpenELEC in the end too after trying a few different XBMC distros

 

99usd
but there are european resellers like newit and ecservices

openelec works nice on it.very fast.
i had a raspberry pi - but it was not fast enough.

ive seen geexbox and xbian also on it.

i would never use xbmc under android, caus android isnt the right plattform for xbmc.

 

Xbian was my favourite for a while, but there was a load of problems with the dev and people claiming he stole stuff, site had to go down, moved, reopened, then Xbian went downhill and others became much better