Re: Christmas Pi

[Martin Howell <martin.howell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm, I've seen these on Fleabay but they seemed too good to be true.
Has anyone tried one?

Martin


On 16/12/2012 15:37, des g wrote:
> Saw there was a hdmi to vga convertor available for the Pi on cpc,
might be
> worth a look?
>
> Cheers, Des.
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> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Martin Howell
> <martin.howell@xxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> I've been playing with one, I originally planned to use it to
drive a
>> screen in the hall to give calendar, weather and house status
>> information.  I have to say that the lack of a VGA output is a
major
>> blocker for me - I've got a number of spare PC screens to use, but
don't
>> want to invest in one with a HDMI plug'ole, and the picture from
the
>> composite video output is absolute pants with text pretty much
>> unreadable  (although there may be some tweaks to make it better).
>>
>> Its a good bit of kit if you can use it plugged in to the TV, or
without
>> a screen at all, but for anything else that needs a display it
ain't good.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> On 16/12/2012 10:11, pjqx wrote:
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> in advance of ennui over Xmas I thought I might take the
plunge and buy
>> a Raspberry Pi to play with - I like the idea of hanging XBMC on
the back
>> of a TV screen.  Taken a look on Ebay and can see that the Blue
connector
>> ones (they seem to be the most recent) go for about £35 (the
seem cheaper
>> in RS components but they have no stock).
>>> Before i take the plunge is there anything I should know?  I'm
almost
>> certainly not going to do anything more taxing than XBMC and the
like - no
>> programming for instance.
>>> Seasons greetings etc.
>>>
>>> Tim.
>>>
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