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***f1vefour*** · 16th Aug, 2013, 12:08 AM

I just have a Pi in a pibow case (with top off) and an old JVC 4:3 glass screened TV, no AVR and no fancy stand for the TV :-(

I know there must be nice fancy Xbian setups to see out there.

brantje · 18th Aug, 2013, 09:51 PM

Current test setup:

soppathekeitto · 22nd Sep, 2013, 03:07 AM

This is our bedroom setup

now i got some thing to do in the bedroom when wife is on the one week break B) heheh

edit: going to make better stand for the screen and rasbi.

**IriDium** · 22nd Sep, 2013, 05:09 AM

[TASK] Xbian is on the cutting edge. What about the most extreme photo of xbian running. A photo over the Grand Canyon, at Base Camp of K2 or within the Amazon Jungle.

It's only a laugh.... but it worked for extreme ironing :-)

Exnor · 17th Oct, 2013, 10:10 AM

Here is my setup Tongue

Now i only need a bigger TV Tongue

Edit: Here is my setup with my new 5.1 receiver LG SR906SB Big Grin

***f1vefour*** · 21st Oct, 2013, 04:59 AM

Why the fans in your setup?

Exnor · 21st Oct, 2013, 08:05 AM

(21st Oct, 2013 04:59 AM)f1vefour Wrote: Why the fans in your setup?

Because i'm OC @ 950Mhz (ARM core) and even with a passive thermal dissipator on top of the SoC/RAM chip i was getting 68º C temps and above... so before i "burn" the chips i made and active dissipator Tongue

Now it never goes up than 46º C even with max load.

My other Pi in my bedroom runs Xbia OC and is always between 55ºc and 62ºC but it does not have any thermal dissipator whatsoever.

According to manufacturer this SoC should not reach near 80ºC so i'm just being careful...Plus this are low RPM fans and make no noticeable sound Smile

**rikardo1979** · 21st Oct, 2013, 08:36 AM

it should survive 85°C Wink

but should not get anywhere near even with OC settings Wink

But I do not tellin u to do so as I would not pay for your RPi with burned hole through it Big Grin

**Smultie** · 21st Oct, 2013, 03:53 PM

Pity those fans probably triple (or worse) the power needed to run a Pi....

Exnor · 22nd Oct, 2013, 01:56 AM

(21st Oct, 2013 03:53 PM)Smultie Wrote: Pity those fans probably triple (or worse) the power needed to run a Pi....

Well that is not a problem since they both are 100mA 5V (each) and i'm getting the current from a USB port (that i do not use... in fact i don't use any of the USB ports Tongue

)

Plus i have a 2.1 Amperes/Hour power adapter to "feed" the Pi Smile

and max AC power consumption is (according to the transformer specs plate) 15W/h... still less than my multimedia LG Blu-Ray player (that consumes 30W/h).

Offtopic: Would be great if Xbian got a port for LG and Samsung "smart" TV's like mine... it really would be a lot more practical. My TV runs modified (by LG) Linux kernel 2.6 on a dual core MIPS 1GHz (don't remember what MIPS cores exactly) with (according to the LG hacker's forum) 512MiB of RAM.

**IriDium** · 22nd Oct, 2013, 01:57 AM

I'm surprised you even need extra OC with Xbian (Especially beta 1.2). I'm not saying you shouldn't OC - it's your RPi at the end of the day. I'd check what's happening with something like "top", "nmon" as those sort of temperatures seem to signify that the CPU is running at 100% all the time. On a Xbian OC I never really get above 55 degrees.

I feel that 80+ is way too high for the RPi.

Nifty solution to a problem though Smile

Makes the little puppy look like a Rottweiler Cool

Exnor · 22nd Oct, 2013, 02:05 AM

(22nd Oct, 2013 01:57 AM)IriDium Wrote: I'm surprised you even need extra OC with Xbian (Especially beta 1.2). I'm not saying you shouldn't OC - it's your RPi at the end of the day. I'd check what's happening with something like "top", "nmon" as those sort of temperatures seem to signify that the CPU is running at 100% all the time. On a Xbian OC I never really get above 55 degrees.

I feel that 80+ is way too high for the RPi.

Nifty solution to a problem though Makes the little puppy look like a Rottweiler

I've found that using OC @ 950 the xbian becomes faster in some computations (lol it should since it can do more calculus a second) like installing or updating add-ons and even on some video streaming add-ons.

For video playback its true i did not needed... even with FHD @ 11Mbits/s rate it would not slow down.

The only thing i'm really concern is the long term Joule effects inside the Chips... Since at this clock rate more electrons flow through the nano sized conductors...

Also i never got 80ºC on any of the Pi's... and i don't intend to do so Tongue

**IriDium** · 22nd Oct, 2013, 02:22 AM

(22nd Oct, 2013 01:56 AM)Exnor Wrote: Offtopic: Would be great if Xbian got a port for LG and Samsung "smart" TV's like mine... it really would be a lot more practical. My TV runs modified (by LG) Linux kernel 2.6 on a dual core MIPS 1GHz (don't remember what MIPS cores exactly) with (according to the LG hacker's forum) 512MiB of RAM.

It would all depend on what processor it uses - Xbian is Arm6. Also it would need some sort of expansion as Xbian at it's smallest would need at least 1G.

If you are still interested, can you create a new topic as this is definitely off topic. Many Thanks.

Exnor · 22nd Oct, 2013, 02:24 AM

(22nd Oct, 2013 02:22 AM)IriDium Wrote:
(22nd Oct, 2013 01:56 AM)Exnor Wrote: Offtopic: Would be great if Xbian got a port for LG and Samsung "smart" TV's like mine... it really would be a lot more practical. My TV runs modified (by LG) Linux kernel 2.6 on a dual core MIPS 1GHz (don't remember what MIPS cores exactly) with (according to the LG hacker's forum) 512MiB of RAM.
It would all depend on what processor it uses - Xbian is Arm6. Also it would need some sort of expansion as Xbian at it's smallest would need at least 1G.

If you are still interested, can you create a new topic as this is definitely off topic. Many Thanks.

Very interested but will the devs even consider the idea? Thks Smile

**belese** · 22nd Oct, 2013, 05:07 PM

I'ts not possible.
Other dev work on this (for samsung at least),
you can check what is possible to do with a samsung tv here :
http://www.samygo.tv/ but it's another story :-)