Dale and team,
This is great. I was in the process of downloading and getting ready to test it out then RC9 was released to my delight. Great work so far. Granted I have only done limited testing, but it works great. I was even able to test my client on WP7. I could use the remote control and queue up media from the phone.
I love the Plex concept because it is centralized and all metadata and fanart happens on the server and not the Pi (limited resources and I am impatient to have it scan each time I add new media).
Keep up the great work!
Thank you.
he has them set up similarly. without them I get an error "could not find XBMC data", with them it segfaults.
I'll try re-flashing rasbian. after forgetting to expand the rootfs, the Pi ran out of space during an apt-get upgrade. did it after and everything runs normally, except this.
I'd imagine the issue stems from that, or the fact that it's a Mini SD in a Micro SD adapter.
** double post, three cheers for cafe wifi.
Rc 9 much faster installed in a minute
frequent crashes though
playback seems good so far streaming 1080p with no choppiness
Please work on video channels I would love to watch netflix on this!!
Great work openelec definitely smooth
Yeah RC9 is amazing. I can’t wait for the finished product. I’ll probably have to go out and buy a new Pi for each of my TV’s. This is amazing.
I’ll also throw you guys a donation when it’s a bit more polished.
I’m getting this error when trying to get rasplex via the new installer:
python getrasplex.py<br />
Getting latest installer...<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "getrasplex.py", line 29, in <module><br />
bootstrap()<br />
File "getrasplex.py", line 25, in bootstrap<br />
getrasplex.doInstall()<br />
File "<string>", line 215, in doInstall<br />
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'VERSION' referenced before assignment
Has anyone run in to this as well?
Should be fixed now.
The crashes go away, and are a result of trying to cache too much fan art. If you navigate around a lot and force it to crash, I find it comes back faster. We'll fix this don't worry.
As for channels, it's planned I promise. I want netflix too.
Thanks Dale!
Love your work on the Pi and Plex!
In the latest bleeding edge build, Weelkin and I have managed to get wifi configuration via gui working. It's pretty janky, but most of the work for that is done.
Next up is to get automatic update working (we already have a working prototype for this thanks to a_wein), but it has to be merged in to the main build process.
After that, it's just automated builds that we need to take care of, and then we are ready for a beta release!
If you want to try the bleeding edge builds, use ./getrasplex.py -b (the -b is for bleeding). Note the version that it prints before you install, it should be rc9_i or higher for wifi support.
-Dale
Right now it's only possible to edit the wifi settings when using the confluence skin.
1) Preference -> Appearing -> Skin -> Skin Confluence
2) In confluence go to Programms -> OpenELEC Os Settings
It may take a few seconds to actually load. The rest should be straight forward.
After you've edited your settings, you can switch back to the original skin
regards,
weelkin
Yea I cant wait until you get video channels working my little on loves netflix once we get that Im putting a pi on every tv
Ahh crud guess I better pull my thumb out and order the Pi.
I love everything about this so far but… NTP doesn’t appear to be working. Actually, it hasn’t been working since rc1 but it works on everything else in my network, including my RPi when I had OpenELEC on it before. The time is set correctly, but its in the wrong time zone, it’s set to Greenwich time (UTC-0)
Not a huge deal, but can anyone help with this?
rc1 is ancient, use rc9 or higher. NTP works OOB, you just have to set your TZ in pref-appearence-international.
More details on how to get it at http://blog.srvthe.net/get-plex
rc9-j (bleeding edge) now has a plex native wifi dialog thanks to weelkin and elmassman.
The community support on this project has been OUTSTANDING. I want to thank everyone in IRC, on the forums, anyone willing to test the unstable, exploding builds. You guys are great. And to all the rasplex hackers, thanks for taking tasks off my plate to get this beta out the door. We have Almost 30 people on the project trello https://trello.com/board/plex-on-raspberry-pi/510c4d34e1d17df66c00092a, and the IRC seems to consistently have about 10 people idling from all over the world, so we basically have 24/7 support chat!
a_wein contributed the code to set up automatic updating, but I’ve been on a 3-day long coffee driven code-like hell weekend, and haven’t had time to integrate it (yet) because of my focus on Wifi. To be fair, I’ve hardly had time for eating or sleeping. But I did find time yesterday to drink and celebrate the success of the openelec port.
Tomorrow I hope to merge in autoupdating, test it thoroughly, and turn this alpha into a beta.
For the release, I’m planning on having 2 amazon s3 mirrors (US and EU), as well as sourceforge. The installer will try to automatically select the fastest one.
Right now I don’t have the mental capacity to do a git merge, so I’m going to take a break.
The road ahead is to improve speed/stability, clean up the patches, automate builds, and officially support/maintain a debian package and installer.
Anyone know a way to install RC9-J on a USB drive?
Use the installer to install on both your SD card and your USB stick.
Edit cmdline.txt to this:
boot=/dev/sda1 disk=/dev/sda2 ssh quiet
This is something that is requested quite a lot.
I can add a feature to the installer quite easily if you guys would like?
ie,
./getrasplex.py -o usb
Or something to that effect.
That would be great! I have slow sd cards but I do have usb 3.0 drives that I would love to use for rasplex.
