Raspberry Pi/X5BMC

[dark_stranger]

When I got my X5 it had a DVD player in the boot, that was able to feed the front dashboard screen and/or 2 headrest screens with wireless headphones.  The problem was that whoever wired it up, gave it a constant feed and was draining the battery every few days, that and the fact that if the kids wanted a differnet film, you had to stop, go to the boot and swap disc's.  A real pain in the arse. So I simply unplughed the player and never uesed it, making the headrest screens worthless.

Anyway, had been toying with the idea of getting a raspberry pi running xbmc setup in the car.  Anyway, finally had a dry day, and here are the results...

OpenElec booting up


XBMC booting up


Option screen to select the kids profile


and finally the media centre loaded


Currently its powered by the cig lighter socket, but will do more perm soultion later. Just wanted to make sure it worked.  Plus it means no more getting out to change films and it is all controlled by a IR remote.

Happy days and happy kids.

[petert]

Very interesting.  I'm just looking at XBMC on a raspberry pi.  Works Ok - a bit slow when first powered up but not bad for a pretty inexpensive piece of hardware (I already had USB mouse and keyboard).  Would be interested to hear more about your experiences in this area...

Peter T