[vcf-midatlantic] TVs installed!

[Neil Cherry]

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
> ​S​o 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.

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