-----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic- bounces@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of Systems Glitch via vcf-midatlantic Sent: 01 November 2016 16:57 To: vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org Cc: Systems Glitch <systems.glitch@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] other museum TV options: Roku box
The trouble with Pi is the can corrupt their boot disk...
As stated though, you can knock that out with a read-only root FS (what I do on most embedded systems) or a small battery backup. I've seen several Li- Ion based UPS boards (hats? plates? shields? I don't know what they're called) for the Raspberry Pi that, along with either a script or a kernel driver, will gracefully shut the Pi down when either the battery is low or just whenever main power has been offline for a predetermined time.
I think someone already mentioned it would be cool to get IXR to help and do something for the VCFED blog about it.
Thanks, Jonathan
But of course if you use a device that's designed for streaming like the Amazon Firestick all you have to do is plug it in the HDMI port and you can play.... Dave