{"id":22,"date":"2017-06-20T12:37:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T10:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2017-06-28T18:55:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T16:55:07","slug":"rpi-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hallam.ch\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/20\/rpi-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Make your own media player (TV box)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I make my own media player using a Raspberry Pi 3 and OSMC. For those of you who are beginners, Raspberry Pi is a cheap Single Board Computer (SBC) which costs somewhere near to 40 Swiss Francs. OSMC stand for Open Source Media Centre. It is a Debian based Linux distribution with Kodi installed. Kodi is the package that provides the media player functionality.<\/p>\n<p>With my Media Player\/TV box, I have turned my &#8220;not so smart&#8221; TV into a Smart TV. What I like about my TV box is that I have full control over it unlike an Apple TV or Android TV box.<\/p>\n<p>The essential parts are:<br \/>\nRaspberry Pi 3<br \/>\nMicro 8GB SD card (Class 10)<br \/>\nAn HDMI cable (ensure it is not a really old one)<br \/>\nMicro USB power supply<\/p>\n<p>I assume one wants a presentable media player then I additionally recommend:<br \/>\nHeat Syncs<br \/>\nA housing case<\/p>\n<p>Before you go out and buy I recommend that you read up on the Raspberry Pi and OSMC by going to their official pages &#8211; https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/osmc.tv\/<\/p>\n<p>Here is a Raspberry Pi 3 OSMC media player that I have built for less than 70 Swiss Francs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/RPI-1-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"RPI Media Player\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I make my own media player using a Raspberry Pi 3 and OSMC. For those of you who are beginners, Raspberry Pi is a cheap Single Board Computer (SBC) which costs somewhere near to 40 Swiss Francs. OSMC stand for Open Source Media Centre. It is a Debian based Linux distribution with Kodi installed. Kodi &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hallam.ch\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/20\/rpi-media\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Make your own media player (TV box)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hallam.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hallam.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hallam.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hallam.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hallam.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hallam.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/www.hallam.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hallam.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hallam.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hallam.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}