![]() ![]() When you boot OSMC for the first time you’ll get a blue screen (of life?) with the operating system logo. Again, you can see the dedicated power cables for the Pi (on the left) and the drive (bottom). I highly recommend this, as it allows you to setup your hardware without automatically starting up the Pi. For this Pi, I bought a power supply that has an on/off switch. Plugged into the Pi, is an ethernet cable (highly recommended over wireless), the keyboard/mouse dongle, and USB cable for the drive. When it’s all hooked up for the first time, it’s a little messy. To make them talk to each other, you just plug the drive into one of the Pi’s USB ports. Both the Pi and drive/enclosure have external power. The nice thing about this setup is how easy it was. I control the system using a cheap wireless keyboard-mouse combo from Logitech. Also has a very smooth-feeling power button on top. Flip-top gives you easy access to the drive. Here you can see how the enclosure works. ![]() Pi 2 (left) and drive inside the enclosure (right). ![]() The drive is formatted to exFAT so I can write to the disk using Windows or macOS. This allows me to swap out the storage easily (say if the drive dies). ![]() The hard drive, which is designed for network-attached storage, has been put into a nice enclosure which doesn’t require any tools. For those at home, a Pi 3 will give you better performance. I have a Raspberry Pi 2 and a 1TB WD Red Drive. Also, OpenELEC, as a platform, has fallen out of favour so I’m using Open Source Media Centre (a fork of the ELEC) which has a slicker interface and better support. This new setup is a less complicated replacement and kind of an experiment to see if I can function without the dedicated server. The server bit the dust – likely an electronic short. Unfortunately, I had to change this long-standing setup. The Pi was a ‘front end’ of sorts for that server and it ran OpenELEC (a Pi variant of Kodi). Previously, I had a dedicated media server (running Open Media Vault). For Netflix, I use my (now ‘obsolete’) Wii U. I like the idea of having a computer hooked up to my TV for playing local media. I’ve been using a Raspberry Pi as my media centre PC for about four years. ![]()
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