Raspberry Noob

Ichy · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Karma :

I'm new to the world of the Pi but have plans to take it on my travels this year. At the moment I have three cards, Raspbian, OSMC and Retropie. I'd like to put them all on one card to make it a bit easier. I'm considering Berryboot to do the job but I think I have to make my own squash images to ensure that the current setups are maintained.

My question is, is there a better way? Would I be better off just installing something like Emulationstation and Kodi under Raspbian and setting them back up the way I want?

Other options?
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CaNsA · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Karma :

Here ya go mate

https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/howto-retrosmc-retrogaming-on-osmc/6671

OSMC is much more lightweight and streamlined than any of the other distros.

The devs are awesome and the support is excellent.

sutty86 · Trackday Trickster Joined: 30 Jan 2015 Karma :

I've just got one for Xmas , osmc great distro!

J.M. · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Karma :

I can also vouch for OSMC. It runs brilliantly on my Pi2. Some higher quality files lag a bit, but that's to be expected. Most of my collection sits at around 1gb/hr and that never gives me any trouble.

I've never tried setting up retro gaming on it though. Mine's purely media and download based.
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Ichy · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Karma :

CaNsA · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Karma :

Use putty to ssh in.

Check out the OSMC wiki, they've put a fair bit of work into it.

https://osmc.tv/wiki

supZ · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Feb 2009 Karma :

Such a great little thing they are.

Got a pi 2 for xmas which I'm planning to build into a dvr/cctv system but I'm having real issues. Thought I could use motionpie which would have been fine but it doesn't support rtsp which is why, I'm presuming, it doesn't support my IP caneras.

Kinda pointless if I have to plug them in via usb or gpio Neutral

My 1st one is happily running osmc with all my media on. Great little gadget, heh
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sutty86 · Trackday Trickster Joined: 30 Jan 2015 Karma :

Noob.question for this retro pi do I have to install any files onto the SD manually or is it all through
Putty????

sutty86 · Trackday Trickster Joined: 30 Jan 2015 Karma :

Figured it using lemon SSH through android...

If any one needs any help let me know

bladerunner · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Sep 2006 Karma :

Slightly off topic but I've just dug out my old P1b and installed noobs and kodi.....kodi deffo seems to run a lot better than the older xbmc versions but I'd still like to speed it up....is the pi2b going to speed it up a lot as for the dosh its worth upgrading. Also bought one of those esy-kb04 wireless mini keyboard/touchpads for it today and glad to say it works with no driver downloads etc Wink

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Ichy · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Karma :

I can't really give a direct comparison but I do know that it works way better on the PI than on the two android devices I'd tried it on.
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spikenipple · Crazy Courier Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Karma :

I can't contribute to the question in the thread, but I'm currently setting my Pi2 up to use as an I/O for an IP-based remote control beer-grabbing robot tank... Twisted Evil

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