On 10/24/2016 08:38 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
that was my original point Plus the RPi is small enough to attach to the back of the TV using a case and double sided tape
There are proper mounts that can be used (but a good tape will work)
Saving you an unnecessary long hdmi cable, or usb cable I would think there's an extra outlet in the attic to power this. And you can easily connect a wireless keybd/mouse So you can change anything or manually operate the media player You could add a WiFi connection too so then you can remotely add content
You can steal USB power from the USB port :-) You can put WiFi on it then you can access the Pi with SSH. Just another option. I wouldn't recommend fighting with the Pi Zero. Just get e Pi 3 and you will find it quite usable. If you turn off, or reconfigure the logging and a few other things you can use NFS or CIFS for the media. I'm doing this with the Atari 8 bit disk drives (the Pi emulates a disk drive). I'll demonstrate that at Festivus. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies