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Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

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Post by gruturo »

gambiting wrote: post #97
gruturo wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny thing is you don't even need a HAT, there are passthrough extractors and they're cheap (30 bucks for a pack of 4): https://www.amazon.com/ANVISION-Splitter-Adapter-Compliant-R... Let's see how much the official PoE HAT is, but it better be cheap or I know what I'll be buying (more of)

This is definitely not PoE, just a hack on top of normal ethernet infrastructure. If you use one of these with a normal PoE switch you will fry whatever is connected on the other side, as it won't step down the voltage from 48V to 5V. Both sides need to be using this, but then real PoE is guaranteed to work even on 100m long cables, with this your 5V will end up being <4V with a 100m long cable and potentially useles…

Nope, this is not the ghetto "Passive PoE" variety which uses the 4 wires not needed for 100Mbps to carry power. This is an actual 802.3af/at compliant adapter.

I have 2 in my home (not the exact model I listed because I'm on the other side of the Atlantic, bought them off Amazon Germany), hooked to a Netgear GS110TP (8 PoE copper ports, 2 SFP ).

Actually there's so much stuff drawing power (2 Pi, 2 Ubiquity APs) that I'm starting to worry about the load on the switch.

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

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Post by petecooper »

Tepix wrote: post #64
cashy wrote: post #42

Happy kodi server update day

Amlogic S905X boxes are the better choice for Kodi these days. You can installi LibreElec, they are cheaper than a Raspberry Pi 3 and they support 4K & HDR and have hardware acceleration for H.265 (HEVC) and VP9.

I've never been entirely comfortable with these HTPC boxes with factory-issued OS, especially connecting to a local network.

Do you have any advice or feedback on Amlogic S905X-based boxes that can have the OS flashed to something more generic (Debian-based, ideally)? Thanks!

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

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Post by fisian »

mattbierner wrote: post #15

I’ve been using Pis to stream video from webcams for various experiments and the built-in wireless on the 3 and Zero W was game changing. All the usb WiFi adapters I had tried previously were unreliable or had too much latency. Very excited to try out the improved wireless on this board

I did some experiments with MiraCast (using MiracleCast) with the built in wireless on the RPi3. However I ran into several issues (connections not working sometimes; unreliable connections which would stop after a short time). Later I found a forum post which said that these issues could be related to the built-in wireless not correctly supporting WFD. Maybe the RPi3B+ fixes this issue but someone would have to try that.

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

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Post by boris »

AdrianoKF wrote: post #30
boris wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or even 4G. Would be nice to have a high-memory variant especially seeing that that would require zero changes in the OS unlike most othet hardware variations.

As far as I can remember, the system-on-chip architecture limits the maximum amount of RAM to 1 GB (I'll try and find an official source, it's probably somewhere in the BCM283x peripherals documentation). Not to say Broadcom couldn't spin a newer revision of the SoC with a different internal architecture, but for now it seems that >1 GB of RAM would require substantially more effort than just swapping the DRAM module…

Right, RAM is part of the SoC... that probably makes the idea pretty much a no-go.

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

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Post by Semaphor »

Nullabillity wrote: post #99
qalmakka wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe you may have more luck using legal services such as Netflix. I'm quite sure they have subtitles for most of the languages they support; at least, I'm sure they have them for English, German and Italian. Torrents are often a poor choice with regards to captions, because either you manage to find a source that ripped them from an source in sync with video (such as the DVD), or you have to resort to fan dubs or th…

For some idiotic reason Netflix geofences their subtitles. Here in Sweden you're lucky if there are even the original English subtitles available for the thing you're trying to watch. I've even managed to find a few shows where they didn't even bother to allow disabling the subtitles!

> For some idiotic reason Netflix geofences their subtitles.

Same clusterfuck as with other copyright things. Different companies have the rights to the subtitles and it depends on what terms Netflix got. One of the reasons [0] I mentioned why piracy is still superior even for someone paying and wanting to pay.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16360517

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

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Post by nikofeyn »

Narishma wrote: post #41

Why was the title changed? It's misleading right now since there's already a Raspberry Pi Model B+ available for ages. Should be "New Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+" just like on the blog post.

in general, i find the aggressive title changing on hacker news confusing. it’s been happening a lot recently where i can’t find a post by eye where i know i knew the title or where the title was changed away from the exact title of the linked post or article.

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

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Post by kingosticks »

jimmies wrote: post #26
sjuut wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or you can use the u-boot bootloader[1], and boot a kernel and root filesystem from TFTP, right? [1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot

For any problem, there is always someone who could come up with a brilliant solution and makes me feel like a dummy. That is a great idea I haven't thought of! PS: Upon further inspection, PXE netbooting is already possible on the 3B under the name of "USB booting," it's just not the default in the hardware, and there might be bugs that are fixed in the new version.

But remember you can always put the very latest bugfixed version of bootcode.bin standalone on an SD card and use that instead of the version in your Pi's bootrom. This also works for older models (Pi/Pi2) that don't have PXE support in their bootrom.

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

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Post by mrmondo »

DoubleMalt wrote: post #18

2GB of RAM would've been more important to me than all the listed changes.

Yeah, although adding usable wireless is a big bonus - I wish it had 2-4GB of RAM and I wish you could put the USB ports into gadget mode like you can with the zero, but preferably at least two or more ports that can work with it. Also - I’m really disappointed there’s still no GbE.

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

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Post by kingosticks »

gambiting wrote: post #95
DoubleMalt wrote: post #18

2GB of RAM would've been more important to me than all the listed changes.

For this(and other) reason, the Asus Tinker Board looks like the superior choice, for very little more money than the Pi3: https://www.asus.com/uk/Single-Board-Computer/Tinker-Board/

The last time I checked out the Asus Tinker it was still suffering from horrendous software support and cost nearly twice as much in the UK (which it still does, £32 vs £55). So unless you NEED those extra features, I strongly disagree.

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

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Post by tonylemesmer »

r_singh wrote: post #56

I'm a big fan of the Raspberry Pi community in general and have used it for multiple applications over the years; most recently as a media center TV box. However, the hardware now feels old and I wish for more of an update from the Pi foundation. If anyone hear is looking for a true upgrade on the Pi, try the ODROID C2, it's years ahead of the Pi in terms of performance.

Lots of people say there are superior devices - however the community size and support for Raspberry Pi cannot be overstated.

The price of an Odroid XU4 is significantly proportionally higher and I have no guarantee that certain features or projects are feasible on it. First result from Dec 2017 when searching for "XU4 Kodi" is someone having a problem installing and then saying "I would prefer a version with long term support and wide use base." Well my answer to that is RPi.

I'm merely implying that RPi has a higher chance of certain things working simply because its more popular. I'm not disputing that there are higher performance platforms for "similar" money but it's reliability and a little more certainty that some people are after.

I would love to try one of the ODROID devices, I simply don't have the time. And I love seeing suggestions for these other devices so please don't stop posting them :)

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