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Dec. 11th, 2013 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI had been feeling a little disappointed by the scope of what I could do with the Chromecast dongle I picked up during the Thanksgiving special offer season until yesterday, when I learned that an additional ten or so supported apps had become available. As someone who is much more interested in "casting" the stuff in my local cloud to my television (instead of the stuff from places like Netflix or a proprietary media store), Chromecast came off looking like a dud.
One of the new offerings, however, is something called Avia, which—after making a $3 in-app purchase that, inter alia, provides access to Dropbox and DLMA and squelches advertising—can talk to servers running DLMA, a version of which just happens to be installable on a Raspberry Pi (there's a very clear and accurate tutorial for installing something called minidlma here).
The setup works, but for some reason not all of my media files have been indexed.
Something to figureout later, I guess...
One of the new offerings, however, is something called Avia, which—after making a $3 in-app purchase that, inter alia, provides access to Dropbox and DLMA and squelches advertising—can talk to servers running DLMA, a version of which just happens to be installable on a Raspberry Pi (there's a very clear and accurate tutorial for installing something called minidlma here).
The setup works, but for some reason not all of my media files have been indexed.
Something to figureout later, I guess...
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Date: 2013-12-11 07:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-11 08:30 pm (UTC)Your point? :^)
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Date: 2013-12-11 07:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-11 08:32 pm (UTC)The man has more patience than I do. :^)
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Date: 2013-12-11 08:38 pm (UTC)He does like to jerk people around, though it's generally after they've been presumptuous or jerky first. Only in America would someone install a klieg light that keeps their neighbors up, and then insist that it's the NEIGHBOR who has the problem.
You should read some of his other entries. "Missing Missy" and "Simon's Pie Charts" are among my favorites. :)
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Date: 2013-12-12 12:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-12 08:55 pm (UTC)