New toy

[IanMc]

Oh, cool, so what is your favourite? and is it possible to connect an internet dongle such as the Huawei E220?

I'm thinking of stand-alone internet connected devices here.

 

[MikeH]

Erel,

I thought you were in Israel:

"The Red RPis are available for customers within China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau."

I have the green one since last summer, only tinkered with it so far. It may end up being a web server some time in the future, thats unless I write a killer B4J app for it

 

[qsrtech]

Do you mean like a 3g dangle? If it works on android already then I don't see why not. I use a USB - Lan adapter.

 

[Erel]

Erel,

I thought you were in Israel:

"The Red RPis are available for customers within China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau."

I have the green one since last summer, only tinkered with it so far. It may end up being a web server some time in the future, thats unless I write a killer B4J app for it

You are correct. I ordered it from ebay.

You will very soon be able to write a web server with B4J...

 

[IanMc]

Here's my Raspberry Pi today:

I have a bluetooth module on it and it's connected to my main screen and I've also logged on using BlueTerm on my Android tablet:

The yellow cable is an ethernet cable which I have 'bridged' so everything can be connected to the internet at the same time.

I have also done this using a WiFi dongle but as I have the cable then I save a USB port by doing it this way.

 

[IanMc]

I installed the VNC server on my Pi and now I don't need to connect a mouse or keyboard to it, I can just view it in a window!

Rather than type out all the instructions on how to do this here I include a link to my post on my forum:

http://btinterface.com/BTInterface/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=451

 

[JakeBullet70]

I am running a B4A app on the OUYA using the OUYA controller as the input device.
For $99 the OUYA has lots of power.

 

[Erel]

@IanMc note that if you try to run a GUI B4J program (or any JavaFX program) with VNC then you will not see the program running.

I read about it in their forums. It is related to the hardware acceleration.

 

[IanMc]

Ah thanks for that Erel, I'll need to plug my monitor in again for that then.

 

[krzyszp]

@IanMc note that if you try to run a GUI B4J program (or any JavaFX program) with VNC then you will not see the program running.

I read about it in their forums. It is related to the hardware acceleration.

What about NX server - client?

 

[Erel]

Not sure. Didn't check it.

 

[sorex]

We are here at work looking to replace our Android noise monitoring phones by rasPI's.

Wouldn't it be easier to install an Android OS on it so that I can use B4A instead of B4J?

And which toy would you recommend because there are several these days (RasPi, BananaPi, HackBerry, CubieBoard ...)
(notice that it needs a line in for the MIC)

 

[Erel]

Wouldn't it be easier to install an Android OS on it so that I can use B4A instead of B4J?

That depends on what you are trying to implement. B4J with the Raspberry Pi library gives you access to features that you will not be able to access if you install Android on it.

 

[JakeBullet70]

Android is not quite ready for the rasPI's

 

[sorex]

can you explain why not? is it speedwise that you mean?

I read that you can run it on a pi but without hardware acceleration,
which I don't need since I just need to stream audio to a monitoring tablet.

 

[JakeBullet70]

Yes, speed was the issue I had last read about unless they have some new builds.