I was given a Raspberry Pi 2 as a gift some time ago and I was

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2016-02-22 02:56:04 Post No. 950347
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Anonymous 2016-02-22 02:56:04 Post No. 950347 [Report]

I was given a Raspberry Pi 2 as a gift some time ago and I was really excited when I got it. It was fun to tinker with but ultimately I quit messing with it so much and it has been sitting in a closet for some time now.

A few days ago I decided to pull it out and see if I could use it to watch some stuff on my TV without having to connect the HDMI cable from my computer.

My experience so far has been as follows:

>Try to watch Netflix through XBMC for the Pi 2
>Netflixbmc requires a chrome launcher and therefore doesn't work for the Pi
>PlayOn requires a computer to be running
>Wants a monthly subscription
>Wants a $60 upfront payment if you don't feel like paying monthly
>Chromecast is $35

>Try to do anything with MPEG2 or VC-1 encoding and end up with garbage framerate
>Buy license keys
>They'll show up in your email in several days

>Try to add spotify
>Spotimc requires a premium account
>Could just continue to listen for free on my computer

>Try to watch TV
>Need a TV tuner instead of just being able to watch through an Xfinity addon for XBMC
>TV tuner costs money
>Already have a cable box so why would I do that?

>Maybe I'll install RetroPi on it
>Already able to emulate whatever my heart desires on my computer
>Just play SNES games on computer with better performance

>Go look up any other halfway decent music/video streaming plugin
>Find a list
>2014
>All the plugins no longer work

This device is really only good for GPIO pins and as a cloud server. Other than that it's literally a meme device that is shit compared to even the most basic smartphone which has wifi without the use of a dongle.

I guess I would be up for buying a 9 dBi antenna and making a Piratebox. Anyone have any other ideas?

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Anonymous 2016-02-22 13:30:13 Post No.950567
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Anonymous 2016-02-22 13:30:13 Post No.950567 [Report]

>>950347
paper weight

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Anonymous 2016-02-22 15:55:29 Post No.950612
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Anonymous 2016-02-22 15:55:29 Post No.950612 [Report]

>>950347

>Anyone have any other ideas?
Is your only interest consuming media? If so, you have to realize that you are limited to what will run on the Raspberry PI, unless you are willing to do some work to get what you want. Its a SoC with GPIO: you have a computer with OS and GPIO, so you can do *anything* a basic computer can do. It just isn't built in. However, there aren't any arbitrary restrictions either (like with a smartphone).

If you want to do more than consume media; then google is your friend.

>>950567
>paper weight

Like I said SoC with GPIO. But you need to be willing to figure it out your self in many ways.

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Anonymous 2016-02-22 15:58:35 Post No.950614
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Anonymous 2016-02-22 15:58:35 Post No.950614 [Report]

>>950612
BTW, that's kind of the whole point of RaspberryPI. One higher level of abstraction than a microcontroller; one lower level of abstraction than a computer or built-for-consumption device.