XBMC and Raspberry Pi

Teste raspbmc: well the official package showed already some errors when an apt-get update was done... so I switced to xbian.org. I like this one since couchpotatoe and transmission are already built in, and I can install other packages I need... since it is based on debian

Xbian runs fine, but there seems to be an issue with my SD Card ( a transcend SDHC class 10 8GB card) file system gets corrupted after approx one week

Back up raspian/xbain installation:

Followed this instruction 

Raspberry PI

Raspian Linux image

- write to a ntfs external HD, 

configure /etc/fstab according to http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/04/auto-mount-windows-ntfs-partitions-in-ubuntu-12-04-precise-pangolin/

UUID="822482F72482ED8B" /media/Pladde ntfs-3g defaults,auto,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=000 0 0

- podcast: 

install "podracer"

- mail server and sending mails using the gmail account

mutt is your tool of choice
use this instruction from lifehacker 
and then, from 2013 onward sudo apt-get install  libsasl2-modules
  then echo "hello from raspi"   | mutt test@mail.com test

- couchpotato: dowload movies when the are available

follow this guide http://raspberry-blog.com/howto/installing-couchpotato-on-raspberry-pi/

- rtmp

Some radio streams are not available as mp3... solution: use a script to dump the stream and convert it to the mp3 Here the bash script, install rtmdump and mplayer and avconv

#!/bin/bash
URL="${1}"
FILEmp3="${URL##*\/}"
FILEwav="${FILEmp3%%.*}.wav"
FILE3="${FILEwav%%.*}.mp3"
WDIR="$(mktemp -d "/tmp/rtpdump.XXXXXX")"
trap 'rm -rf "${WDIR}"' EXIT INT HUP
rtmpdump -r ${URL} -o ${WDIR}/${FILEmp3}
mplayer ${WDIR}/${FILEmp3} -ao pcm:file=${FILEwav}
avconv -i $FILEwav  "$FILE3"
rm $FILEwav

- Samba 

according to http://www.forum-raspberrypi.de/Thread-tutorial-samba-windows-freigabe-server-installation-raspbian-debian and dont forget to add the support for symlinks in case you would like to use an mounted device

http://www.maistech.net/2011/09/ubuntu-server-samba-sharing-with.html

- Sync your data do the cloud

Dropbox aint working: no support for the ARM chip. Therefore I used BOX.com, as descriebd here:
http://linuxfordummies.org/mount-your-box-com-account-in-linux/
EDIT: dropbox seems to work now: see https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader 

- Check & Monitor temperature... and mail it to you

https://github.com/fechu/PiTemp nice script for local display
and
https://sites.google.com/site/benhewitttechnology/raspberry-pi-with-xivley for the internet of things (may fail if network connection is to slow while torrenting)

- control podcast remote with a smartphone:

install vlc
and make sure you use the 3.5mm jack (thanks to this post)

sudo modprobe snd_bcm2835sudo amixer cset numid=3 1

edit  sudo nano /usr/share/vlc/lua/http/.hosts according to http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/http_intf#Access_control
start vlc on boot based on http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/vlc the script , add  the --extraintf=http in the vlc call at the end and 

and finally add the script with 

update-rc.d vlc defaults

convert youtube to mp3 bash script

this nice script will do it
call it youtube2mp3.sh and call it up like  youtube2mp3 "url youtube" "title.mp3"


x=~/.youtube-dl-$RANDOM-$RANDOM.flv
youtube-dl --output=$x --format=18 "$1"
ffmpeg -i $x -acodec libmp3lame -ac 2 -ab 128k -vn -y "$2"
rm $x

prerequisites here; http://askubuntu.com/questions/218932/convert-youtube-to-mp3

bis Tests

ftp server vsftpd

after  adding dyndns for static IP access

sudo apt-get install vsftpd
added an ftp user

sudo adduser 

2010 eddition: ubuntu server 10.04 on a DELL OPTLIPLEX G620

Well ,my T22 is dying after 4 years. So I got a new old DELL and the what I will do is

• install  ubuntu 10.04 server edition
• LAMP and SAMBA Packages

and then hook up my webcam, transmission including moblock (shall i give a try to the TOR and proxify as well ?) and  a mail server... then lets start

• dowloaded and installed ubuntu-10.04-server-i386.iso 
• installe LAMP, OpenSSH, SAMBA fileserver and MailServer
• no root pwd on mysql

Postinstallation

done

• Static IP: 

using this time 192.168.1.221

• Port forwarding on router

• SAMBA 

Follow this guide:http://www.unixmen.com/linux-tutorials/566-install-samba-server-in-ubuntu-karmic but used the existing user for

sudo smbpasswd  -a   "myuser"

Adding 

follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes
unix extensions = no

to have access as well to mounted external harddrives

• Transmission torrent

Following this guide http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/06/install-new-improved-transmission-20-in.html  
used this settings $ sudo nano /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json
{
    "alt-speed-down": 50,
    "alt-speed-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
    "alt-speed-time-day": 127,
    "alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
    "alt-speed-up": 50,
    "bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
    "bind-address-ipv6": "::",
    "blocklist-enabled": false,
    "cache-size-mb": 2,
    "dht-enabled": true,
    "download-dir": "/home/daevu/download",
    "download-limit": 1000,
    "download-limit-enabled": 0,
    "encryption": 2,
    "idle-seeding-limit": 30,
    "idle-seeding-limit-enabled": false,
    "incomplete-dir": "/home/daevu/Downloads",
    "incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
    "lazy-bitfield-enabled": true,
    "lpd-enabled": false,
    "max-peers-global": 200,
    "message-level": 2,
    "open-file-limit": 32,
    "peer-limit-global": 240,
    "peer-limit-per-torrent": 60,
    "peer-port": 53958,
    "peer-port-random-high": 64000,
    "peer-port-random-low": 42000,
    "peer-port-random-on-start": true,
    "peer-socket-tos": 0,
    "pex-enabled": true,
    "port-forwarding-enabled": false,
    "preallocation": 1,
    "proxy": "",
    "proxy-auth-enabled": false,
    "proxy-auth-password": "",
    "proxy-auth-username": "",
    "proxy-enabled": false,
    "proxy-port": 80,
    "proxy-type": 0,
    "ratio-limit": 0.2500,
    "ratio-limit-enabled": true,
    "rename-partial-files": true,
    "rpc-authentication-required": true,
    "rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
    "rpc-enabled": true,
    "rpc-password": "{81ed8acf066233eabf1621d75adc85f0a3faa20b8021nMli",
    "rpc-port": 9091,
    "rpc-username": "daevu",
    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,192.168.*.*",
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
    "script-torrent-done-enabled": false,
    "script-torrent-done-filename": "",
    "speed-limit-down": 100,
    "speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
    "speed-limit-up": 5,
    "speed-limit-up-enabled": true,
    "start-added-torrents": true,
    "trash-original-torrent-files": false,
    "umask": 18,
    "upload-limit": 100,
    "upload-limit-enabled": 0,
    "upload-slots-per-torrent": 14,
    "watch-dir": "/home/daevu/torrents/",
    "watch-dir-enabled": true
}
 



• Postfix :with  gmail relying according to http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/11/11/relaying-postfix-smtp-via-smtpgmailcom/ 

•  JdDownloader: first install vncserver:

• apt-get install -y vnc4server xinetd

  run vnc4passwd (enter desired pwd

  to run vncserver on startup: add this lieno to /etc/rc.local just before exit =

  • su "myusername" -c 'vnc4server :1 -geometry 1024x768 '

• Install JAVA (since transmission works not with OpenJDK) 

  sudo add-apt-repository “deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner”

  sudo apt-get update 

  sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin 

• Download transmission over VNC

  $wget -c http://212.117.163.148/jd.sh

  After download let's make it executable and run it :

  $chmod +x jd.sh
$./jd.sh

  
  
  
  

• INSTALL WLAN Chipset (ZyDas1211) (Follow  http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/WLAN/wpa_supplicant
   
• To get MAC Address:
•  ifconfig -a
• to initially start it
• sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

• Edit /etc/initd.interfaces so it will start from boot  (comment out eth0)

##WLAN
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address "your desired IP"
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1
wpa-ssid "mynetwork"
wpa-psk "mypassphrase"
wpa-proto RSN
wpa-key_mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-pairwise CCMP
wpa-group TKIP

 
 

TO DO

• move torrent after finish: http://1000umbrellas.com/2010/04/28/how-to-automatically-move-and-remove-transmission-daemon-downloads does not work
• TOR & privoxy
• BAckup Pics and docs on the machine

transmission torretn client 2.0 on karmic

according to http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/06/install-new-improved-transmission-20-in.html