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2016-02-22 02:56:04 Post No. 950347
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2016-02-22 02:56:04
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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?