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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Background</span></u></b><br />
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Currently I am using a custom windows HTPC for main media player and whs 2011 server hosting Plex Media Server. It plays everything I throw at it flawlessly and you can see previous posts on that setup. I do have a few issues with display and sleep/wake issues where it doesn't all show up on screen. This isn't a big issue for me as I know a couple of buttons to try that will wake it up, but the wife gets confused sometimes and complains. I will probably work on that in the future, but with the new raspberry pi 2 I decided to give it a go and see how well it works. We are moving shortly and will add second tv in bedroom so this would be perfect device to add to second tv.<br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">What parts to order</span></u></b></div>
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<b>Buy a preconfigured Kit</b></div>
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<b>Optional Remote</b></div>
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<b>Optional for initial Setup (USB Keyboard)</b><br />
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<li>You can choose to stick with the bare Raspberry Pi 2 (make sure its the newer 2 version). To be honest, for all you get with the kit its worth it even if you don't end up using all the parts they give you. I went with Canakit because of the black case. </li>
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<li>Of the optionals I added the FLIRC so I could use it with the Logitech Harmony Smart Remote. This is optional based on your setup because some people will be able to use CEC with their TV's. The CEC path was just too laggy for me, however the power management would have been nice that comes with CEC. I will discuss how to setup with FLIRC to work with Harmony remote below. Some people go with a Windows MCE Remote USB dongle which would work as well. I already have one connected to my HTPC so I didn't want interference of signal and difficulty of setting up 2 MCE remotes in harmony software. </li>
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<li>You will need basic usb keyboard for the initial setup, but won't need it again after that</li>
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<li>The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008XVAVAW/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008XVAVAW&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=3YS2PB32XQH2JTDJ">Canakit</a> comes with a cheap class 6 8GB microsd card that seems to be working fine with my setup, but I am planning on upgrading to a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00M55C0NS/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00M55C0NS&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=YEP236MM5SQR6APM">class 10 16GB/32GB card</a></li>
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<li>It also comes with a cheap wifi usb dongle. If you want a faster/better dongle than you can upgrade to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EQT0YK2/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00EQT0YK2&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=7YYGJJCOT75CUAZD">Panda 300Mbps here</a></li>
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1. <a href="http://www.rasplex.com/get-started/rasplex-installers.html">Go to this website</a> and download RasPlex for whatever you operating system you will be using to install Rasplex. I have a mac so chose OSX.<br />
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2. Open up GetRasPlex program<br />
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3. Enter your computer's password into the terminal window that opens up. This will open up a graphical interface of RasPlex<br />
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4. Insert your microSD card into an adaptor and plug it in to your computer<br />
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5. Under 'Select Your Device' choose Raspberry Pi 2<br />
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6. Under 'Select Version' choose 0.5.1 (currently the most current build)<br />
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7. Under 'Select Device to Flash' choose your memory card that you inserted<br />
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8. Click Download (this will download the version you selected)<br />
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9. Once its done downloading you should be able to select 'Write SD Card'<br />
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10. Once its done you can remove the SD card and put it in the Raspberry Pi memory card slot<br />
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11. <a href="https://flirc.tv/downloads/">Go to this FLIRC website</a> to download the software to program remote<br />
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12. Open up FLIRC<br />
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13. Now you need to choose how complex you want your remote to be. The basic standard setup would be useful is you want to use an Apple Remote (from Apple TV). I chose to use Kodi as it is similar to Plex. Go to Controllers at the top of the screen from menu bar and select which device you want to use.<br />
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NOTE: Before you continue you should have already programed your harmony remote to use with Plex and have that activity working and active when setting up FLIRC remote. Harmony has a special device for plex so when setting it up choose Plex as the manufacturer as well as the model.<br />
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14. Grab your harmony remote (make sure the plex activity is active on the remote) and program the remote by selecting the button with the software and then pressing the corresponding button on the remote. Their should be feedback from the software that says pairing complete.<br />
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- I paired Up, Down, Left, Right, Enter/Select, Fast Forward, Rewind, Info, Back, Home (Exit)<br />
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15. Unplug FLIRC from computer and plug it into USB port of Raspberry Pi<br />
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16. Use Plex app instead of remote control<br />
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<li>The Plex app is available for iOS, Android and even Windows Phone. It is both a Plex client (so you can stream movies to your mobile if you wish) and a remote control for other Plex clients. </li>
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<li>Tap the Choose Player button — it’s the rectangle with the WiFi symbol in one corner — and select the player you want to control; in my case it’s plexhometheatre on rasplex. If I had Plex running on any other device it’d also appear on this list.</li>
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<li>Once you’re connected, if you select a movie or TV show in the Plex app on your mobile, it will play on your Raspberry Pi. You’re also able to pause, fast forward, rewind or change what you’re watching from the app.</li>
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17. Network - You can plug in Wifi adaptor that comes with canakit or use ethernet for better performance. Note-I have read of usb issues when using wifi adaptor and other usb devices at same time<br />
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18. Power on raspberry pi by plugging the power cord in<br />
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19. Go through initial RasPlex Setup<br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Select your regional settings (most likely ‘English’ if you are reading this!)</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Setup networking – you will need to select you wireless network and login. Wired networks should not need any configuration. If all is working well, you should be assigned an IP address by your router or DHCP server</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Calibrate your screen – You will be asked to setup the corners, subtitle location, etc.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Login to your ‘My Plex’. You will be asked to use your computer (or any device with a web browser really) to navigate to </span><a href="https://plex.tv/users/sign_in" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">plex.tv/pin </a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">and input you pin and connect.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Pre-caching – you will be asked to ‘pre-cache’ much of the meta data from your Plex server to improve performance. You will need to reboot after install is complete for this to take effect.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">20. Optional - Overclock Raspberry Pi to speed things up. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 26px;"> There are two ways to do this. Locally with microSD card attached to computer or through ssh. </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 26px;"><b>SSH</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 26px;">Make note of your Raspberry Pi IP address which can be found in </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 26px;">“System Settings – > Connections”</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 26px;">Use your choice of program to ssh into your raspberry pi (I prefer terminal in OSX)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 26px;">type 'ssh root@(ip address of raspberry pi)' without quotes </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 26px;">ex. ssh root @192.168.1.12</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 26px;">Enter your RasPlex password (default is rasplex)</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">type</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> <span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;">mount -o remount,rw /flash</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">edit /flash/config.txt using nano:</span></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">nano /flash/config.txt</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">I chose to go with High settings (don't mess with turbo). Look for the image below and replace with what level you choose</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hit 'control + X' on keyboard</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Type 'Y' to save file</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hit 'Enter' on keyboard to confirm overwrite</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Type </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">reboot </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">and hit enter in terminal to reboot raspberry pi</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://cdn.makeuseof.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/overclock.jpg?6055c3" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="overclock" border="0" class="aligncenter" src="http://cdn.makeuseof.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/overclock.jpg?6055c3" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" /></a><ul>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Local</b></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px; background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">With the MicroSD card still connected to your computer, navigate to it using Windows Explorer or Finder.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px;">Change the</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px;"> </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px;">arm_freq</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px;">,</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px;"> </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px;">core_freq</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px;">,</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px;"> </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px;">sdram_freq</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px;">and</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px;"> </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px;">over_voltage</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px;">to match the recommend values you want (see image below).</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Open the file</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">config.txt</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in a text editor. Under</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Overclock mode settings</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you’ll see the recommended overclock configurations. Beneath them is where you change the settings. I set mine to</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <b>High</b></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span></div>
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<li><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.200000002980232px; background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">Eject the MicroSD card and insert it in the Raspberry Pi.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Go to Preferences of RasPlex</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Go to input devices</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Select the CEC adaptor</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Turn off all functions of CEC by unchecking all items</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">22. Other options for speeding up RasPlex</span></span></div>
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<li style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Precaching - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">Precaching is recommended by RasPlex. It copies a cache of images, thumbnails, and metadata to the client side in order to speed up menu browsing. To ensure that all the images, thumbnails and meta data is copied to your Raspberry Pi, you can force ‘precaching’.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">To do this browse to the left to access the settings menu. There will be an option to ‘control precaching’ then select yes to begin the global precaching. Note that if you are connected to</span><span style="line-height: 26px;"> </span><a href="https://plex.tv/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Plex</a> <span style="line-height: 26px;">servers with large libraries or to remote Plex servers, it will take sometime to download all of the images and metadata. Once this is complete, you should notice browsing your libraries to be quite a bit faster.</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<a href="http://www.htpcbeginner.com/images/2015/05/Speed-up-Raplex-Precache.jpg" rel="lightbox-1" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;"><img alt="rasplex performance" class="size-large wp-image-15192" height="375" src="http://www.htpcbeginner.com/images/2015/05/Speed-up-Raplex-Precache-500x375.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: -0.4rem; max-width: 100%;" title="speed up rasplex" width="500" /></a></div>
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<li style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Disable Background Slide Show</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">I’ve find that while all the media displayed in the background looks pretty good, it does tend to slow browsing the menus and your media down. To disable the slide show go to: “Preferences -> Appearance -> Advanced -> Settings -> Disable All Slide Shows”.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">It is also possible that you can switch to a lighter weight skin, but this is not something I’ve explored. </span></span></li>
</ul>
<li style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Disable Unwanted/Unused Services</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">Many users have reported that disabling some of the services you are not using, like samba, SSH, cron, etc can speed up RasPlex. I’m not sure I noticed much difference, but if you aren’t using these services anyway it certainly can’t hurt to disable them. You can review the services running by navigating to the left and then selecting “System Settings – > Services”. There are also some other services such as AirPay and UPnP which can be disabled if you are not using them under “Preferences -> System -> Services”.</span></span></li>
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<a href="http://www.htpcbeginner.com/images/2015/05/Speed-up-Rasplex-Disable-Services-e1426915932587.jpg" rel="lightbox-3" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;"><img alt="rasplex performance" class="size-large wp-image-15196" height="337" src="http://www.htpcbeginner.com/images/2015/05/Speed-up-Rasplex-Disable-Services-e1426915932587-500x337.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: -0.4rem; max-width: 100%;" title="speed up rasplex" width="500" /></a></div>
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<li><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">It has also been reported that disabling sending anonymous performance data might help performance. Again, there wasn’t a perceptible difference for me. You can disable by clicking left and going to: “Preferences – > System – > Advanced – > Allow Plex collect anonymous data to improve your experience”. But if you don’t see an improvement and don’t mind sending some data back to Plex you may contribute to the project by leaving it on.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;">24. Install Media Codecs (If needed to play some content on Plex)</span></span></div>
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<ul>
<li>What You will Need </li>
<ul>
<li>An MPEG-2 (~$4)and/or VC-1 license(~$2) purchased from the <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.com/mpeg-2-license-key/">Raspberry Pi store</a>.</li>
<li>Access to the command prompt on the Raspberry Pi </li>
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<li>First, I will walk you through getting the serial number off the board and purchasing the licenses you need. After that, I’ll show you how to manually add the licenses to your Pi.</li>
<li>Purchasing the Licenses</li>
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<ul><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">
<li style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;">In order to purchase the licenses you need, you will have to retrieve the unique serial number for your Raspberry Pi board. This number is not printed anywhere on the circuit board but is instead stored in the hardware; it must be retrieved using the command prompt.</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;">Retrieving the Serial Number: First, visit the command prompt via an SSH tool such as Terminal. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;">The default password for RasPlex is rasplex.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;">Once at the command prompt enter the following command: cat /proc/cpuinfo</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;">Your Pi will spit back 11 lines of text, but the only one of interest to us is the last line labeled Serial. Copy the unique 16 digital serial number (partially obfuscated in the screenshot here).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;">Because the license is granted to each specific Raspberry Pi board, repeat the above process for all Raspberry Pi boards you wish to purchase a license for.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;">Once you have the the serial number for each individual unit, it’s time to purchase the licenses from the Raspberry Pi foundation.</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;">Purchasing the License: Visit the Raspberry Pi foundation’s purchase page for the MPEG-2 license and/or VC-1 license. Enter your Raspberry Pi serial number in the appropriate blank beneath the price. Add the license to your cart. Repeat this process for all the licenses on all the units you wish to add the codecs to.</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;">Although the foundation indicates that it could take up to 72 hours for your license to arrive via email, we received ours in about 24 hours. When your email arrives it will include a code for each license formatted like such:</span></li>
<ul>
<li><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">decode_MPG2=0000000000</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">decode_WVC1=0000000000</span></span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;">The 0000000000 portion of the license is your unique 10-digit alphanumeric license code.</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;">Installing the Licenses</span></li>
<ul>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;">Now that we have the license codes, it’s time to add them to your Raspberry Pi and get to enjoying enhanced media playback.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">type</span><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">mount -o remount,rw /flash</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">edit /flash/config.txt using nano:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-weight: normal;">nano /flash/config.txt</span></span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;">Cut and paste the formatted license entries you received in your email below the lines that include the # (This denotes a note in computer code so the OS knows to ignore anything after this point. Therefore when you copy the licenses make sure there is no # before them.)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hit</span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 'control + X' on keyboard</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Type</span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 'Y' to save file</span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hit 'Enter' on keyboard to confirm overwrite</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><ul><ul style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<li style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 15.600001335144px;">Type </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15.600001335144px;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">reboot</span> </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 15.600001335144px;">and hit enter in terminal to reboot raspberry pi</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<ul><ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can verify that the licenses are installed correctly by ssh into your pi and type the following</span></span></li>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15.600001335144px; white-space: pre-wrap;">vcgencmd codec_enabled MPG2 </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 15.600001335144px;">vcgencmd codec_enabled WVC1</span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 15.600001335144px;"> </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 15.600001335144px;">Should say license is enabled</span></span></li>
</ul>
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First I bought Besta <a data-mce-href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20210832/" href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20210832/">Vassbo</a> Doors with middle square indents. Looking back I could have saved $5 on each door and got the <a data-mce-href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60103477/" href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60103477/">Vara</a>, but I thought the guideline to cut out center would be helpful. I bought <a data-mce-href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10242273/" href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10242273/">Jig Saw</a> from ikea to cut out the inserts on 6 of the doors to give the cabinets room to breathe for my electronics and also for remotes to work through. I then bought <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YDTMPS/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004YDTMPS&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=IV5AXAJRUUVH7JTJ" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YDTMPS/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004YDTMPS&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=IV5AXAJRUUVH7JTJ">speaker fabric from amazon</a> (I bought 3 rolls and used 2). I had sand paper laying around to smooth edges.</div>
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I bought <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001MQHZ4/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0001MQHZ4&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=XKAMWS4WWDLRJLNX" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001MQHZ4/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0001MQHZ4&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=XKAMWS4WWDLRJLNX">Powershot staple gun at Home Depot, but can buy at amazon</a> and <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002JSZCO/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0002JSZCO&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=GTRKWRLCDKB5DD7J" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002JSZCO/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0002JSZCO&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=GTRKWRLCDKB5DD7J">bought T50 3/8" staples</a>.</div>
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Then cut approximate size of cloth to cover all edges. Take staples gun and start with corners and fill in rest. You can also use glue to keep the edges down in between staples. Just make sure its snug fit but don't pull to stretch as it might tear.</div>
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What it looks like on the besta unit. I also chose to leave out the back thin inserts in the besta unit to give room to breathe on back side and also give plenty of room for cords.</div>
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I have a large media server that fit perfectly into the <a data-mce-href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00134052/" href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00134052/">Besta shelf unit</a>. I cut one large hole on side facing windows to give open space for access to rear panel and fans of server. I covered it partially with our <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QK7HI8/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004QK7HI8&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=UOVVFJJMAX73IIXX" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QK7HI8/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004QK7HI8&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=UOVVFJJMAX73IIXX">Mohu Leaf OTA Antenna </a>.</div>
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I needed airflow coming into the server so I bought 2x <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002MZ5ZLK/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002MZ5ZLK&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=4KBX2JB7KNYUKTZD" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002MZ5ZLK/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002MZ5ZLK&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=4KBX2JB7KNYUKTZD">Cooler Guys USB 120mm fans with mounting brackets</a>. I also wanted to keep dust out so instead of grill protector from kit I bought these <a data-mce-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/231166634118?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649" href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/231166634118?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649">cheap filters on ebay</a>. I then aligned the fans to be exactly where the 2 large fans on server case are. Cut out the holes and mount the fans. Now I have excellent airflow through case.</div>
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Next issue was the subwoofer. I wanted to keep it hidden so I tried hiding with besta shelf. It wasn't quite tall enough, but wife was okay with look as its mostly covered. I cut out large insert in back to allow subwoofer to fit through as it was also too long. This gave besta shelf no support and would bend out since its not on the ground. To fix I used one nail to fasten door to both sides and hid them under speaker fabric and it works fine now.</div>
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Finished product. I liked the look of white cabinets with the black doors. We went with high gloss black doors because I think it looks nicer but you could save money and get plain black/brown. For speakers I sold my surround setup and got lucky on ebay with finding Definitive Technology SSA-50 for $200. It does a decent job in small apartment, but not even close to quality of old 5.1 Polk setup. It looks nice and fits in the media center. Wife added <a data-mce-href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50155018/" href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50155018/">Ikea Fillsta table lamp</a> for extra lightning. For cable management I purchased <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LTJ71I/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B005LTJ71I&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=GFYN75SEPT66IOIQ" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LTJ71I/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B005LTJ71I&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=GFYN75SEPT66IOIQ">cable ties</a>, <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AUB81DC/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00AUB81DC&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=VGXHAWX6IEHPTFVW" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AUB81DC/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00AUB81DC&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=VGXHAWX6IEHPTFVW">sticky mounts for cable ties</a>, and <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015EA3NO/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0015EA3NO&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=PSORS4C6SHRDAANO" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015EA3NO/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0015EA3NO&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=PSORS4C6SHRDAANO">TV wire cover</a>. Too mount the tv one could go with simple mount or one that moves and swivels. I have used both types in past. This time I went with <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WL6YY8/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WL6YY8/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1">swivel version</a> to be able to slightly move tv towards our couch since they were offset. Its also MUCH MUCH easier to plug cords in.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02048714912004807434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-452382394920865383.post-85706167326523555352015-02-12T14:21:00.002-07:002015-02-13T07:51:55.354-07:00FRIHETEN sofabed/couch Hack - Add bass to your couch for ultimate movie experience!<div style="text-align: center;">
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I live in a tiny studio apartment in NYC and brought a large subwoofer with me. I was able to hide it well with my previous ikea hack. However, its hard to get much use out of it due to the amount of bass it produces (aka neighbors don't like it).<br />
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I recently went to a movie in NYC with AMC's new Prime experience. They put a speaker/subwoofer under your seat so you "feel" the bass. I did some research and it seems people have already done this in their home theatres. There are several companies with different products depending on how much money you want to spend. I decided to go cheap since I don't have a full blown home theater setup.<br />
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I first purchased 2 of these <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009RGJ47S/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B009RGJ47S&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=DON4TKRYJ6RUF4HU">Dayton Puck Tactile Transducers</a> on Amazon for $19 each and later ordered 2 more for my <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70243038/#/50242997">ikea FRIHETEN couch.</a> This couch is perfect because there is already plywood on the back, which allowed me to drill a hole to fit the pucks in without having to purchase 2x4's and making my own mounts.<br />
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To power the Dayton's I purchased the recommen<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">ded <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0049P6OTI/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0049P6OTI&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=QUSXUZZRU33JZE4R"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.3;">Lepai LP-2020A+ </span>Amp</span></a> on Amazon</span> according to reviews. I went to hardware store and bought 24 wood screws (#6), 4 wood screws with washers (#8), electrical tape, and wire caps. At home I already has some zip ties and sticky squares that I got from amazon for cable management as well as some leftover speaker wire.<br />
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On Amazon I ordered a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003FVYXY0/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003FVYXY0&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=IJM47ZPQUCQCNSE4">15ft serial cable (subwoofer) cable</a> and a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003L1AGVS/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003L1AGVS&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=AX5SSMZOEBLYMCQR">serial splitter</a> (you may need 2 of these depending on if your receiver has only 1 subwoofer out port).<br />
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The final touch, which is optional, was to add a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006N41DS/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0006N41DS&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=LDR5KDJGOTMFCS77">50hz FMOD low pass crossover</a> which I got on Amazon through partsexpress.<br />
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1. Use the premade cutouts that come with the Dayton pucks to draw onto the wood. I chose to evenly space 3 under the lateral part of sectional and one under the vertical (storage) part.<br />
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2. Use some type of powerdrill to drill out enough wood for the pucks to fit in nicely. (notice on this couch the rear wood is only about 1/2" thick so I was very close to drilling all the way through)<br />
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3. Using 6 of the #6 screws, screw in the pucks into their holes that you made and make sure they don't budge.<br />
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4. Use the speaker wire to wire the speakers however you wish (this is the most difficult step and will vary depending on how many pucks you use, what ohm the pucks you got, what ohm your amp will run on). I purchased 4 of the 8ohm pucks. I put each set of 2 in parallel and then connected to separate channels (L and R). This gave me 4ohms into each channel (if speakers are parallel you divide by 2, if series you add them together).<br />
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5. I chose to put Amp vertically under the storage section so it was closest to power outlet (power cord provided for amp is really short). This is also convenient because when you flip up the storage section of couch you can easily flip the power switch and also make adjustments to volume/bass/treble.<br />
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6. Drill hole in bottom of storage area for subwoofer cable and power cord to exit<br />
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7. Drill hole in side to allow speaker wires to connect to amp in storage space.<br />
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8. Connect splitter to subwoofer cable and L and R from splitter to Amp<br />
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9. Connect other end of subwoofer cable to FMOD crossover and crossover to subwoofer out on receiver. The crossover prevents unwanted bass sounds during movies so couch isn't shaking throughout whole movie and only during scenes that are meant to produce bass.<br />
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10. Power on amp<br />
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11. Test it out by either plugging in serial cable to amp and other end into phone and play music with bass or play movie through receiver. (note when playing music with serial cable through phone you will get actual music + bass out of the pucks, but when connected to receiver you will only receive bass).<br />
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12. Don't tell your wife what you did and play a movie to see her surprise :)<br />
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NOTE: There will be alot of adjusting settings on receiver and amp to get it perfect for movie watching. I leave it off for watching tv but turn it on for playing games or watching movies.<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1st test was Upload/Download speeds to see if there was a difference which depends on what internet speed you have with ISP (I have TWC and 100Mbps/5Mbps in NYC.</span></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DBA1VYU/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00DBA1VYU&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=A5C4I6MROSZGYFHW"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Apple Airport Time Capsule AC version (2TB) ME177LL/A</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00F0DD0I6/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00F0DD0I6&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=2XZS2FV2GPIBVFZS"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Netgear R7000 Nighthawk running DDWRT 23550M</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00F0DD0I6/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00F0DD0I6&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=2XZS2FV2GPIBVFZS"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Netgear R7000 Nighthawk running DDWRT 25100M (newest)</span></a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">100Mbps Download - 5Mbps Upload</span></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0096VCHMI/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0096VCHMI&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=WVCRHXGI3VRRADXG"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Macbook Pro Retina 13" (Wireless AC) ME866LL/A</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YLCJXC/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004YLCJXC&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=34WTYWZWQZBPXFQE">iMac 27" (Wireless AC running Windows 8 in bootcamp for thoroughput) ME088LL/A</a> - 500GB Samsung 840 Evo SSD and 8GB Ram</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Speedtest.net</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Totusoft Lan Speed Test</span></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the chart I made in excel with all the numbers. I then made graphs, shown below, out of the data</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Decided to upgrade router to Netgear R7000 AC1900 router due to good newegg deal and I tested the speeds on iPhone 5S, 13" Macbook Pro and Hackintosh Desktop. I used speedtest.net for all measurements. Tests were done in Phoenix, AZ with Cox Internet in apartment complex (lots of interference). I tested 2.4 and 5.0 GHZ for all + Powerline on Hackintosh</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First going to start with Netgear R7000 - DDWRT 23550M-R01</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next Netgear R7000 Stock - V1.0.3.24_1.1.20 (Latest firmware)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I then put all the data into Graph. For some reason stock R7000 2.4<span style="text-align: center;">GHz were much faster than others. I rarely use 2.4</span><span style="text-align: center;">GHz and the options of DDWRT are necessary for my setup so I will stick with DDWRT on R7000. I don't have any AC devices to test that function yet.</span></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02048714912004807434noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-452382394920865383.post-64913920650895847652014-10-15T13:33:00.001-07:002014-10-16T08:11:28.761-07:00How to Add Wake On Lan (WOL) to Apple Time Capsule - Airport Extreme RoutersI have been using DDWRT for a long time now and the last thing holding me back from moving to Apple router was the ability to remotely wake up my server/htpc. I found an excellent guide for using a raspberry pi to do this for me. This way I can save power and not run my htpc or server 24/7 and combine my home router and time capsule into one device.<br />
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<li>I began using DDWRT in Asus N66U and it was one of my favorite routers. The pain of isntalling ddwrt back then was a major headache, but those troubles are gone now and it is super simple. </li>
<li>I decided to upgrade to the Netgear R7000 Nighthawk once it had DDWRT capabilities because I wanted to take advantage of the AC speeds.</li>
<li>I added an older time capsule to use as a time machine device for our Imac, Macbook Pro, and Macbook air. This worked great for the most part but it seemed silly to not even use the router capabilities of the device. I also had trouble remotely connecting to it using Back to My Mac because of the Netgear router. </li>
<li>Once I found that I can use my pi to remotely wake up my computers and also use the pi as a dyndns updater I no longer needed DDWRT.</li>
<li>Bought the new Apple Time Capsule (2TB) with AC networks capabilities and decided to test the speeds compared to the Nighthawk. </li>
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<li>Now I can remotely wake up my computers</li>
<li>My dyndns is updated automatically so I don't have to worry about my external ip</li>
<li>Back to My Mac works perfectly</li>
<li>I am selling my Nighthawk and older Time Capsule and replaced with new Time Capsule and raspberry pi (save alot on energy)</li>
<li>Stability of stock firmware and Apple routers without sacrificing speed/coverage</li>
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This guide was taken from <a href="http://www.jeremyblum.com/2013/07/14/rpi-wol-server/" style="color: #bd2121; text-decoration: none;">here </a>and edited to fit my needs. Credit to Jeremy Blum<br />
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I have a very <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb7iuhiVolo" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">power hungry desktop computer</a> for HTPC and a server for large file storage. When I’m travelling with </div>
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my laptop, I obviously can’t carry all my files and data with me, so I occasionally use “<a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/connect-using-remote-desktop-connection#connect-using-remote-desktop-connection=windows-7" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">remote desktop</a>” to access </div>
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my desktop from the road. I also use a <a href="http://www.plexapp.com/" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Plex Media Server</a> to stream content from my server. However, the computer</div>
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need to access it. This wastes power, costs me money, and harms the environment. My <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LPESRUK/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LPESRUK&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=Z3EXWJUV6HFZRKBY" style="color: #bd2121; text-decoration: none;">Raspberry Pi</a>, on the other</div>
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hand, consumes a minuscule amount of power, and is always on anyways, serving other purposes.</div>
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In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to run a simple mobile-friendly website from your Raspberry Pi that will allow you </div>
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to remotely wake up your power-hungry computer, so you can remotely access it. When you’re done, just put it </div>
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back to sleep from within the remote desktop service (or use the mobile app plus a small background server running</div>
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on your desktop to put it back to sleep – this is described below). The app pings the computer from the Raspberry</div>
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Pi to inform you of when the computer has woken up and established network connectivity. Follow along after the </div>
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When you’re done, here’s how this will work:</h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">You’ll be presented with a screen that looks like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Next, you’ll enter a passphrase that you’ve pre-allowed. If the wrong phrase is entered, a “denial” note will pop up, and you’ll be able to try again. If you enter the right phrase, the Raspberry Pi will send a Wake Up command to the network interface of the computer that you want to wake up. It will then ping that computer and display the results in real-time, so that you know when the computer has finished booting and is accessible. That screen looks like this:</span></div>
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For the purposes of the following explanation and tutorial, I’ll define a few terms:</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Remote Computer:</strong> This is the “power-hungry” computer located on the same network as your <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Raspberry Pi. I’m assuming you are using a hardwired Ethernet connection, since Wake-On-LAN (WOL) does not work over Wi-Fi.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WOL Sever (Raspberry Pi):</strong> This is the low-power, always-on, micro server that will be running on the same network as the remote computer. You don’t have to use a Raspberry Pi; any low-power platform capable of serving up web pages, running PHP, and sending Wake-On-LAN <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN#Magic_packet" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">magic packets</a> will work fine.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Client:</strong> This is the computer, phone, or other web-connected device that will view the WOL control webpage.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Router:</strong> I assume you are using a home router with a fairly standard feature set, and that you have administrative access to it. It should support DHCP address reservations, NAT port forwarding, and ideally support for a dynamic DNS updating service (like <a href="http://dyn.com/dns/" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">DynDNS</a> or <a href="http://www.noip.com/services/managed_dns/free_dynamic_dns.html" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">NoIP</a>).</li>
<li style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; text-align: left;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dynamic DNS Service:</strong> This is a service that handles redirecting a URL to your home’s dynamic IP address. Since most ISPs assign dynamic WAN IP addresses, you need to use a service like this to ensure you can maintain access to your home network, even when the externally-facing IP address changes.</li>
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<li style="border: none; color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Ensure that the remote computer supports Wake-On-Lan (WOL) functionality. You may need to boot into the </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">BIOS and permit the computer to be woken up via the network interface. This will look different on nearly every BIOS. LifeHacker has a </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">good tutorial</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> showing how to enable WOL functionality. For a shortened version specifically for this tutorial go <a href="http://homeentertainmentguide.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-to-set-up-wake-on-lan-in-your-bios.html" style="color: #bd2121; text-decoration: none;">here</a>. </span></li>
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<li style="border: none; color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Setup your Raspberry Pi with a linux distribution if you haven’t already, and get it connected to your network. Adafruit has a </span>great set of tutorials<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> that can help you do the initial setup for your Raspberry Pi. I made a condensed version on one webpage <a href="http://homeentertainmentguide.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-to-install-and-set-up-raspian-on.html" style="color: #bd2121; text-decoration: none;">here</a>. (Note: some instructions are for older version but I was able to find my way through everything ).</span></li>
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<li style="border: none; color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Log into your Router’s administration panel (in most scenarios you can do this by visiting your Gateway IP from your browser). Find the status page and locate the listing of attached clients. Identify your Raspberry Pi and your computer by their hostnames, and copy down their MAC addresses, and IP addresses. In the screenshot below, the hostname of the computer I want to control is “PHOENIX” and the Pi’s hostname is, appropriately, “raspberrypi.” This will vary by router, but the listing will look something like this (Note: I blurred out some of my personal info):</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Now, find the “DHCP Reservation” or “Static Leases” list in your router’s administration panel. You’ll configure your router to always assign your remote computer and the raspberry pi the same IP address every time they connect to the network. This ensures that you’ll be able to reliably forward data to them through the router. It will look something like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Next, find the port forwarding configuration screen in your router’s administration panel. You’ll want to route HTTP data to the raspberry pi, and any remote service ports that you want to access to the remote computer. Importantly, many ISPs will block incoming traffic on port 80, the default HTTP port, to prevent customers from hosting websites from their residences. But, you’re smarter than they are! Simply route an arbitrary external port, to the internal port 80 on your Raspberry Pi. In the screenshot below, you can see that I am routing external port 5000 to internal port 80. This means that when you eventually access the WOL server, you’ll need to specify the port, like this: . Route the appropriate port for whatever services you want to access on the remote computer. In the screenshot below, I’ve routed port 3389, which is what Window’s uses for Remote Desktop. If you wanted to access an SSH server or SFTP server running on the remote computer, you could additionally route port 22. You can find a listing of ports used by various services </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">on wikipedia</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> Sign up for a </span><a href="http://www.noip.com/services/managed_dns/free_dynamic_dns.html" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">free account</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">, and get a URL that looks something like this: yoursite.no-ip.org. NoIP even supports port 80 redirects, so you can configure your account to not require appending the non-standard port number to the end as described in the last step. Once you’ve got your dynamic DNS account, find the Dynamic DNS (DDNS) updating screen in your router’s administration panel, and enter your account info. Now, you’ll always be able to access your home network, without knowing the IP addresses, and the router will handle automatically updating where the URL directs when your dynamic IP changes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Now that your router is all set to handle everything, it’s time to get the Raspberry Pi setup. Access your Raspberry Pi over SSH and log in with the username (pi) and the password that you configured when you followed the setup tutorial linked from step 2 (ssh pi@192.168.1.132). You’ll need to install WOL software and a webserver. Enter this command at the terminal to do so:</span></div>
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Now, navigate to the webserver directory (/var/www) and clone my Remote WOL software <a href="https://github.com/sciguy14/Remote-Wake-On-LAN-Server" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">from my github repository</a>:</div>
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Follow the instructions in the file to set your passphrase hash, the local IP/MAC for the computer to wake up , and the ping retry value. When you’re done, save and close the file.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.8181819915772px;">Notes for the config.php file. You can add as many computers to the list that you want. For some reason to work with mine I had to included a space after mac address and ip address for it to work.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.8181819915772px;"> eg. "BC:5F:3T:33:44:6F " and "192.168.1.132 " notice a single space after mac/ip and before quotation</span></div>
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If the remote computer is Windows 8, you will need to change some settings to make it reply to ping requests (or else you won’t know when it has woken up). By default, Window 8 does not reply to pings. <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/77132/how-to-enable-ping-echo-replies-in-windows-8/" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Follow these instructions</a>to make it reply.</div>
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I’ve added the ability to put the computer back to sleep using the mobile webapp. The new version of the code can still be found on GitHub. Follow the same instructions from above to copy it into /var/www on your Pi. For it to work, you’ll need to ensure that Curl is enabled for your PHP installation, and that your computer is running the Sleep-on-LAN application server:</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Install Curl on your Raspberry Pi for PHP</span></div>
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If it doesn’t work, you might need to update your repositories first:</div>
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Note, with this updated version of the webapp, it will now ping the computer to check if it’s awake or not to decide if it should present you with a “Wake Up” or “Put to Sleep” button on the interface.</div>
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The app now includes a dropdown that allows you to pick a computer. The config file has been updated to include lists for computer names, IP addresses, and MAC addresses. You can now Wake/Sleep as many computers as you want! Thanks to GitHub user ahodgey for <a href="https://github.com/sciguy14/Remote-Wake-Sleep-On-LAN-Server/pull/4" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">submitting a Pull Request</a> with most of this functionality (I made some updates to his pull request, and merged it into the master repository branch).</div>
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You’re done! Put the computer to sleep, visit the dynamic URL that you chose, and you should be presented with the screen that was shown earlier in the tutorial. When you input your passphrase, it will be compared with the hash by the PHP script. If it is approved, the Raspberry Pi will send a command to the remote machine to wake it up. The display will update in real time to show you when the machine has woken up and successfully joined the network. You can then access it using any program whose ports you’ve forwarded. Enjoy!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02048714912004807434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-452382394920865383.post-15973142107711546472014-10-15T12:26:00.001-07:002014-10-16T08:21:02.538-07:00How to Add Wake-On-Lan (WOL) to any router with a Raspberry Pi<br />
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This guide was taken from <a href="http://www.jeremyblum.com/2013/07/14/rpi-wol-server/">here </a>and edited to fit my needs. Credit to Jeremy Blum<br />
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I have a very <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb7iuhiVolo" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">power hungry desktop computer</a> for HTPC and a server for large file storage. When I’m travelling with my laptop, I obviously can’t carry all my files and data with me, so I occasionally use “<a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/connect-using-remote-desktop-connection#connect-using-remote-desktop-connection=windows-7" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">remote desktop</a>” to access my desktop from the road. I also use a <a href="http://www.plexapp.com/" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Plex Media Server</a> to stream content from my server. However, the computer has to be on for me to be able to do this. This means I need to leave the computer on all the time, just in case I need to access it. This wastes power, costs me money, and harms the environment. My <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LPESRUK/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LPESRUK&linkCode=as2&tag=homeenteguid-20&linkId=Z3EXWJUV6HFZRKBY">Raspberry Pi</a>, on the other hand, consumes a minuscule amount of power, and is always on anyways, serving other purposes.<br />
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In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to run a simple mobile-friendly website from your Raspberry Pi that will allow you to remotely wake up your power-hungry computer, so you can remotely access it. When you’re done, just put it back to sleep from within the remote desktop service (or use the mobile app plus a small background server running on your desktop to put it back to sleep – this is described below). The app pings the computer from the Raspberry Pi to inform you of when the computer has woken up and established network connectivity. Follow along after the break…<br />
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When you’re done, here’s how this will work:</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px;">You’ll be presented with a screen that looks like this:<br /><a class="hoverZoomLink" href="http://i2.wp.com/www.jeremyblum.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2013-07-13-23.38.20.png" rel="lightbox[2942]" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Remote WOL Wake-Up Screen" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2950" src="http://i2.wp.com/www.jeremyblum.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2013-07-13-23.38.20.png?resize=168%2C300" height="300" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 20px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="168" /></a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px;">Next, you’ll enter a passphrase that you’ve pre-allowed. If the wrong phrase is entered, a “denial” note will pop up, and you’ll be able to try again. If you enter the right phrase, the Raspberry Pi will send a Wake Up command to the network interface of the computer that you want to wake up. It will then ping that computer and display the results in real-time, so that you know when the computer has finished booting and is accessible. That screen looks like this:<br /><a class="hoverZoomLink" href="http://i0.wp.com/www.jeremyblum.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2013-07-13-23.41.49.png" rel="lightbox[2942]" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Remote WOL Feedback Screen" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2947" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.jeremyblum.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2013-07-13-23.41.49.png?resize=168%2C300" height="300" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 20px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="168" /></a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px;">Once you’ve received confirmation that the computer is alive, you can access it as you normally would, depending on what you’re doing (via SSH, FTP, or Windows Remote Desktop, for example).</li>
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For the purposes of the following explanation and tutorial, I’ll define a few terms:</h3>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WOL Sever (Raspberry Pi):</strong> This is the low-power, always-on, micro server that will be running on the same network as the remote computer. You don’t have to use a Raspberry Pi; any low-power platform capable of serving up web pages, running PHP, and sending Wake-On-LAN <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN#Magic_packet" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">magic packets</a> will work fine.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Client:</strong> This is the computer, phone, or other web-connected device that will view the WOL control webpage.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Router:</strong> I assume you are using a home router with a fairly standard feature set, and that you have administrative access to it. It should support DHCP address reservations, NAT port forwarding, and ideally support for a dynamic DNS updating service (like <a href="http://dyn.com/dns/" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">DynDNS</a> or <a href="http://www.noip.com/services/managed_dns/free_dynamic_dns.html" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">NoIP</a>).</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dynamic DNS Service:</strong> This is a service that handles redirecting a URL to your home’s dynamic IP address. Since most ISPs assign dynamic WAN IP addresses, you need to use a service like this to ensure you can maintain access to your home network, even when the externally-facing IP address changes.</li>
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Here’s what you need to do to get this working:</h3>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Ensure that the remote computer supports Wake-On-Lan (WOL) functionality. You may need to boot into the BIOS and permit the computer to be woken up via the network interface. This will look different on nearly every BIOS. LifeHacker has a </span>good tutorial<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> showing how to enable WOL functionality. For a shortened version specifically for this tutorial go <a href="http://homeentertainmentguide.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-to-set-up-wake-on-lan-in-your-bios.html">here</a>. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Setup your Raspberry Pi with a linux distribution if you haven’t already, and get it connected to your network. Adafruit has a </span>great set of tutorials<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> that can help you do the initial setup for your Raspberry Pi. I made a condensed version on one webpage <a href="http://homeentertainmentguide.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-to-install-and-set-up-raspian-on.html">here</a>. (Note: some instructions are for older version but I was able to find my way through everything ).</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Log into your Router’s administration panel (in most scenarios you can do this by visiting your Gateway IP from your browser). Find the status page and locate the listing of attached clients. Identify your Raspberry Pi and your computer by their hostnames, and copy down their MAC addresses, and IP addresses. In the screenshot below, the hostname of the computer I want to control is “PHOENIX” and the Pi’s hostname is, appropriately, “raspberrypi.” This will vary by router, but the listing will look something like this (Note: I blurred out some of my personal info):</span></li>
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</span><a class="hoverZoomLink" href="http://i2.wp.com/www.jeremyblum.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/dhcp-listing.png" rel="lightbox[2942]" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="LAN Client LIsting" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2952" src="http://i2.wp.com/www.jeremyblum.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/dhcp-listing.png?resize=300%2C123" height="131" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 20px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="320" /></a><br />
<ol style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 7px 30px;">
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px;">Now, find the “DHCP Reservation” or “Static Leases” list in your router’s administration panel. You’ll configure your router to always assign your remote computer and the raspberry pi the same IP address every time they connect to the network. This ensures that you’ll be able to reliably forward data to them through the router. It will look something like this:<br /><a class="hoverZoomLink" href="http://i0.wp.com/www.jeremyblum.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/static-leases.png" rel="lightbox[2942]" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Assigning Static Leases" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2953" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.jeremyblum.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/static-leases.png?resize=300%2C68" height="68" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 20px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px;">Next, find the port forwarding configuration screen in your router’s administration panel. You’ll want to route HTTP data to the raspberry pi, and any remote service ports that you want to access to the remote computer. Importantly, many ISPs will block incoming traffic on port 80, the default HTTP port, to prevent customers from hosting websites from their residences. But, you’re smarter than they are! Simply route an arbitrary external port, to the internal port 80 on your Raspberry Pi. In the screenshot below, you can see that I am routing external port 5000 to internal port 80. This means that when you eventually access the WOL server, you’ll need to specify the port, like this: . Route the appropriate port for whatever services you want to access on the remote computer. In the screenshot below, I’ve routed port 3389, which is what Window’s uses for Remote Desktop. If you wanted to access an SSH server or SFTP server running on the remote computer, you could additionally route port 22. You can find a listing of ports used by various services <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">on wikipedia</a>.<br /><a class="hoverZoomLink" href="http://i1.wp.com/www.jeremyblum.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/port-forwarding.png" rel="lightbox[2942]" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Port Forwarding" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2954" src="http://i1.wp.com/www.jeremyblum.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/port-forwarding.png?resize=300%2C71" height="71" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 20px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px;">Next, you’ll want to sign up for a dynamic DNS updating service that your router supports. Different routers support different services and most likely will require DDWRT installed to configure. If you have an Apple Airport Extreme or Time Capsule then this is not an option. That is why I chose to create this tutorial since I got rid of my router with DDWRT. </li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px;">Follow my guide <a href="http://homeentertainmentguide.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-to-setup-dynamic-dns-dyndns-for.html">here</a> if you want to also use your raspberry pi to configure and autoupdate your DynDNS.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px;"> Sign up for a <a href="http://www.noip.com/services/managed_dns/free_dynamic_dns.html" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">free account</a>, and get a URL that looks something like this: yoursite.no-ip.org. NoIP even supports port 80 redirects, so you can configure your account to not require appending the non-standard port number to the end as described in the last step. Once you’ve got your dynamic DNS account, find the Dynamic DNS (DDNS) updating screen in your router’s administration panel, and enter your account info. Now, you’ll always be able to access your home network, without knowing the IP addresses, and the router will handle automatically updating where the URL directs when your dynamic IP changes!<br /><a class="hoverZoomLink" href="http://i0.wp.com/www.jeremyblum.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/DDNS.png" rel="lightbox[2942]" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="DDNS" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2955" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.jeremyblum.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/DDNS.png?resize=300%2C117" height="117" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 20px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></a></li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px;">Now that your router is all set to handle everything, it’s time to get the Raspberry Pi setup. Access your Raspberry Pi over SSH and log in with the username (pi) and the password that you configured when you followed the setup tutorial linked from step 2 (ssh pi@192.168.1.132). You’ll need to install WOL software and a webserver. Enter this command at the terminal to do so:<div class="wp-shkshell" style="background-color: #444444; background-image: url(http://www.jeremyblum.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-shkshell/shell.png); background-position: 13px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0.4em; border-bottom-right-radius: 0.4em; border-top-left-radius: 0.4em; border-top-right-radius: 0.4em; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, Fixed; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.35em; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 2px 10px 2px 40px;">
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Now, navigate to the webserver directory (/var/www) and clone my Remote WOL software <a href="https://github.com/sciguy14/Remote-Wake-On-LAN-Server" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">from my github repository</a>:</div>
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<span class="wp-shkshell-prompt" style="border: 0px; color: grey; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">pi@raspberrypi ~ $</span> <span class="wp-shkshell-command" style="border: 0px; color: #99ccff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">sudo</span> apt-get install git</div>
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<span class="wp-shkshell-prompt" style="border: 0px; color: grey; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">pi@raspberrypi ~ $</span> <span class="wp-shkshell-command" style="border: 0px; color: #99ccff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">git</span> clone https://github.com/sciguy14/Remote-Wake-On-LAN-Server.git</div>
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Follow the instructions in the file to set your passphrase hash, the local IP/MAC for the computer to wake up, and the ping retry value. When you’re done, save and close the file.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.8181819915772px;"> eg. "BC:5F:3T:33:44:6F " and "192.168.1.132 " notice a single space after mac/ip and before quotation</span></div>
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If the remote computer is Windows 8, you will need to change some settings to make it reply to ping requests (or else you won’t know when it has woken up). By default, Window 8 does not reply to pings. <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/77132/how-to-enable-ping-echo-replies-in-windows-8/" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Follow these instructions</a>to make it reply.</div>
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I’ve added the ability to put the computer back to sleep using the mobile webapp. The new version of the code can still be found on GitHub. Follow the same instructions from above to copy it into /var/www on your Pi. For it to work, you’ll need to ensure that Curl is enabled for your PHP installation, and that your computer is running the Sleep-on-LAN application server:</div>
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If it doesn’t work, you might need to update your repositories first:</div>
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Note, with this updated version of the webapp, it will now ping the computer to check if it’s awake or not to decide if it should present you with a “Wake Up” or “Put to Sleep” button on the interface.</div>
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The app now includes a dropdown that allows you to pick a computer. The config file has been updated to include lists for computer names, IP addresses, and MAC addresses. You can now Wake/Sleep as many computers as you want! Thanks to GitHub user ahodgey for <a href="https://github.com/sciguy14/Remote-Wake-Sleep-On-LAN-Server/pull/4" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 173, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">submitting a Pull Request</a> with most of this functionality (I made some updates to his pull request, and merged it into the master repository branch).</div>
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You’re done! Put the computer to sleep, visit the dynamic URL that you chose, and you should be presented with the screen that was shown earlier in the tutorial. When you input your passphrase, it will be compared with the hash by the PHP script. If it is approved, the Raspberry Pi will send a command to the remote machine to wake it up. The display will update in real time to show you when the machine has woken up and successfully joined the network. You can then access it using any program whose ports you’ve forwarded. Enjoy!</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">You might have recently setup your</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> </span><a href="http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEAQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRaspberry_Pi&ei=tSfNUY2UNMbwrQeux4CwAg&usg=AFQjCNE7gszP1TCCO100TdYOVzpgGPOcbw&sig2=RM0nZ5CelsFOvYsWl4q0wQ&bvm=bv.48572450,d.bmk" style="color: #0889c4; line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Raspberry Pi</a><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">or your Linux box as a 24 x 7 torrent downloader, or a small Web server to host your own website. And just then you realize that your ADSL or Cable Internet connection has a dynamic IP address which changes frequently and every time you reconnect. Thus, it becomes hard to access your box with a fixed Domain name or IP address.</span></div>
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To solve this problem you can setup a Dynamic DNS which will update your IP to a DNS name everytime it changes and you can access you hosted website, or <a href="http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSecure_Shell&ei=iCfNUYrXJMmzrgfC7oDgCA&usg=AFQjCNHpUEQc0aL016715mM6px5KhwKTXw&sig2=kIYkcbXD4RKHfEUs13Qoyg&bvm=bv.48572450,d.bmk" style="color: #0889c4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ssh</a> into it to monitor torrent downloads with ease.</div>
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While there are many paid dynamic dns service providers available, but here you will see one way to do it for **FREE** [Thanks to <a href="http://freedns.afraid.org/" style="color: #0889c4; text-decoration: none;">freedns.afraid.org</a>]</div>
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<b><u>Step 1</u></b><br />Register for a Free domain at <a href="http://freedns.afraid.org/signup/" style="color: #0889c4; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">http://freedns.afraid.org/signup/</a><br />[We will take <span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">techhome.homenet.org</span> in this guide]<br /><br /><u><b>Step 2</b></u><br />Logon to FreeDNS (where you just registered) and goto<a href="http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/" style="color: #0889c4; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/</a><br />Or, simply click on "Dynamic DNS" link from the left navigation menu<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />You should notice a large and unique <span style="color: red;">alpha-numeric key</span> in the URL, make a note of it as shown below:<br /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?<span style="color: red;">[alpha-numeric-key]<alpha-numeric-key><alpha-numeric key=""></alpha-numeric></alpha-numeric-key></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><alpha-numeric key=""></alpha-numeric></span><br />for example <span style="line-height: 25.5999984741211px;">(akhdjfgashdiqyetrakhjsdf==)</span></div>
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Even if your Pi came with an SD card with the operating system on, it is a good idea to update it to the latest version, as improvements and bug fixes are going in all the time. Since putting the operating system onto an SD card wipes everything else off the card, it is worth considering using a USB flash drive for your documents, so that when you install a new version of the operating system, you don't have the complication of copying them off somewhere safe before reformatting the SD card.</div>
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A 'regular' computer with a built-in SD card reader, or an add-on USB SD card reader. The instructions here are for Windows and Mac. <a href="http://adafruit.com/products/939" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00acec; margin-bottom: 0px; text-decoration: none;">You can pick up a tiny microSD card reader/writer that is nice and fast and works with all USB-ports at the Adafruit shop</a>. Please check what version of raspberry you have. The older version uses regular SD card. Newer B+ model uses microSD.</div>
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Having decided you want to install Linux, that is not the end of the story. You now have to decide which distribution or 'distro' of Linux you want to install. Being an Open Source operating system, anyone can take one of the existing distributions an add things to it or configure it in a certain way before packaging it up as another distribution option for anyone to use. This is how the most common Raspberry Pi distribution 'Raspbian' came into existence. The 'Debian' distribution was configured and kitted out with useful things like IDLE (a python-programming language development editor) and Scratch (a learn-to-program gaming system) to make it suitable for the Pi. Adafruit have then taken Raspbian and configured it to make it as easy as possible to use the GPIO connector to attach DIY electronics to the Pi.</div>
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Raspbian – the Raspberry Pi recommended distribution, best for those that want the 'default standard' - nearly every Pi out there runs Raspbian<a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00acec; text-decoration: none;">http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads</a></div>
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Occidentalis – Adafruit's version of Raspbian configured for hardware support. Best used by people who know they want to connect sensors, LEDs, buttons, servos, etc to their Pi <a href="http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-raspberry-pi-educational-linux-distro/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00acec; text-decoration: none;">http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-raspberry-pi-educational-linux-distro/</a></div>
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In fact, if like me, you decide to keep your documents on a separate USB Flash drive, it is no bad thing to buy two SD cards and try both.</div>
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In appearance, there is very little to choose from between the two. When it come to how it behaves, then 'Raspbian' is the more 'standard' distribution, but then Occidentalis is more electronics-hardware ready.</div>
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This will download a zip file that you must extract. The result will be a folder called 'faii-1.0.2-3-x32'. If you keep this outside of the Program Files area then you will be able to run it without changing its privileges. You can just leave it on your Desktop.</div>
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Check that you have the right device, as it will be reformatted, and then click Install.</div>
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It will take a few minutes to install, but once the SD card is ready, you will see the following.</div>
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That's all there is to it. Your SD card is ready for use in your Raspberry Pi.</div>
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Ray Vijoen has created a useful script that makes it really easy to make an SD card using a Mac. It is a shell script that takes all the necessary steps to create the SD card, including formatting it. You still have to run it from the command line.</div>
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Download Raspberry-PI-SD-Installer-OS-X from<a href="https://github.com/RayViljoen/Raspberry-PI-SD-Installer-OS-X" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00acec; text-decoration: none;">https://github.com/RayViljoen/Raspberry-PI-SD-Installer-OS-X</a></div>
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Look for the 'zip' button at the top and download it as a single zip file.</div>
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Extract the zip file. It will expand into a folder called 'Raspberry-PI-SD-Installer-OS-X-master'.</div>
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Use Finder to move the img file that you downloaded earlier into the Raspberry-PI-SD-Installer-OS-X-master folder.</div>
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You can see here that I have both the Occidentalis and Raspbian images in the folder. That is fine, you can have as many images as you like in the folder.</div>
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Open the Terminal app – you will find this in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder on your Mac.</div>
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Then type the command 'cd' followed by the path of your Raspberry-PI-SD-Installer-OS-X-master folder.</div>
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Eject any external drives that you have connected to your computer. This just makes it easier to identify the correct drive that corresponds to your SD card.</div>
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Insert the SD card that you want to use. Note that all data on this card will be erazed.</div>
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You will be prompted for your Mac password and then should see this:</div>
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Enter the number next to the SD card drive. Make sure you get this right, because whichever drive you select will be erased.</div>
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It is then just a matter of waiting until all the image file is installed. This will take a few minutes. You can check on the progress by pressing ctrl-T</div>
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When everything is complete, you should see this:</div>
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If you plan to use multiple SD cards, it is not a bad idea to label them. Put the label on the side that shows when the SD card is inserted into the Pi.</div>
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Testing the card is easy - insert it into your Pi, then connect a keyboard to the USB port and a NTSC/PAL TV to the composite port or an HDMI monitor to the HDMI Port. Then power it by connecting a Micro USB cable to the Pi and powering it via a computer or a USB wall charger</div>
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<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In the next tutorial, you will find out how to configure your Raspberry Pi the first time you boot it up.</div>
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In the first lesson of this series, we showed you how to prepare an SD card containing an operating system for your Raspberry Pi. In this lesson, we will show you how to setup your Raspberry Pi the first time you boot it up.</div>
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We do this using a tool called Raspi-Config that runs automatically the first time you boot your Raspberry Pi. This starts before the windowing system and so you have to use the cursor keys and Return key to navigate the menu system.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;" />It is a bit like adjusting the BIOS settings on a PC, once you have things right, you probably won't need it again. We will start with the options that are most important and then look at some of the other options that you may wish to configure.</div>
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This may seem a bit strange, but by default the Raspberry Pi only uses as much of the SD card as the operating system requires. This means that even though you might have used a large SD card, the operating system won't use it.</div>
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To fix this so that all the space on the SD card can be used, use up / down cursor keys to select the 'expand_rootfs' menu option and hit return. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;" />Once you do that, there will be some screen flashing as a script is run and then you will see the following confirmation.</div>
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Being designed to work with TVs, you may find that your Pi is only using the middle portion of the screen and there is a big unused area all round the screen.</div>
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By default, when the Raspberry Pi boots, you just get a command line. No windows just a terminal where you can login and type commands. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;" />The final configuration that you definitely want to make, unless you don't like windowing environments is to change the boot behaviour so that it automatically starts the windowing system and logs you in.</div>
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For most home networks, you should also be able to connect to the Internet without any further configuration. For this to work, your router should be configured for DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). This service runs on your home network router, dishing out IP addresses to any device that connects to it either through WiFi or by cable.</div>
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If DHCP is not turned on, on your home network router, then connect to its management console using a different computer that is already connected.</div>
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You should be able to find a setting somewhere that turns it on.</div>
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Look for a WiFi adapter that supports the RTL8192cu chipset, as both the latest Raspbian and Occidentalis distributions both have support for this built-in and we've found its much faster than the Ralink chipsets</div>
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If you already have a WiFi adapter, just give it a go, even a lot of the very low cost budget adapters will work without any trouble.</div>
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WiFi does however use quite a lot of power, so check the power rating of your power supply. Some WiFi adapters require an external power supply to work well. <a href="http://adafruit.com/products/501" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00acec; text-decoration: none;" title="Link: http://adafruit.com/products/501">We suggest the 5V 1A power adapter in our shop if this is the case</a>. All of the WiFi adapters we have in the Adafruit shop will work just fine this way.</div>
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If you have a WiFi adapter plugged in, then you no longer have two free USB sockets available for your keyboard and mouse, <a href="http://adafruit.com/products/961" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00acec; text-decoration: none;" title="Link: http://adafruit.com/products/961">so you may also need a powered USB hub.</a></div>
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<span id="setting-up-wifi-with-raspbian" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Setting up Wifi with the Graphic Interface</span></h1>
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Raspbian releases after 2012-10-28 include a WiFi configuration utility. You will find the shortcut for this on the Desktop. If you are using command-line tools or are logging in over Ethernet, check the next page for how to edit<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">/etc/network/interfaces</b> by hand</div>
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Double-click the icon and this is what you will see.</div>
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Click on the Scan button and a second window will open. Find your Wireless access point in the list and double click on it. This will open another window.</div>
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Enter your password in the PSK field and then click Add. When you look at the first window, you should see that the connection is all set up for use. You can connect or disconnect using the buttons. Notice also the IP address of the Pi is shown at the bottom of the window.</div>
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<span id="setting-up-wifi-with-occidentalis" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Setting up Wifi with the Command Line</span></h1>
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Setting up WiFi in Occidentalis, is also pretty straight forward. You just need to add the name of your wireless network (its SSID) and your password to a configuration file.</div>
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<li class="L0" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">sudo nano </span><span class="pun" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">/</span><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">etc</span><span class="pun" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">/</span><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">network</span><span class="pun" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">/</span><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">interfaces</span></li>
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<li class="L0" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="kwd" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cc99cc;">auto</span><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;"> lo</span></li>
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<li class="L2" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">iface lo inet loopback</span></li>
<li class="L3" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">iface eth0 inet dhcp</span></li>
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<li class="L6" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="kwd" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cc99cc;">auto</span><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;"> wlan0</span></li>
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<li class="L9" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">iface wlan0 inet dhcp</span></li>
<li class="L0" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;"> wpa</span><span class="pun" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">-</span><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">ssid </span><span class="str" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #99cc99;">"ssid"</span></li>
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<li class="L5" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="kwd" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cc99cc;">auto</span><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;"> wlan0</span></li>
<li class="L6" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">allow</span><span class="pun" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">-</span><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">hotplug wlan0</span></li>
<li class="L7" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">iface wlan0 inet dhcp</span></li>
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<li class="L0" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;"> wpa</span><span class="pun" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">-</span><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">key</span><span class="pun" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">-</span><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">mgmt WPA</span><span class="pun" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">-</span><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">PSK</span></li>
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<li class="L2" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;"> wpa</span><span class="pun" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">-</span><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">pairwise CCMP TKIP</span></li>
<li class="L3" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;"> wpa</span><span class="pun" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">-</span><span class="kwd" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cc99cc;">group</span><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;"> CCMP TKIP</span></li>
<li class="L4" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;"> wpa</span><span class="pun" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">-</span><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">ssid </span><span class="str" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #99cc99;">"My Secret SSID"</span></li>
<li class="L5" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;"> wpa</span><span class="pun" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">-</span><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">psk </span><span class="str" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #99cc99;">"My SSID PSK"</span></li>
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<li class="L7" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;">iface </span><span class="kwd" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cc99cc;">default</span><span class="pln" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc;"> inet dhcp</span></li>
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<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />If you find your module 'drops out' from time to time, you can fix it fairly easily with a command line fix <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><a href="http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=44171&p=220622#p220593" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00acec; text-decoration: none;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">thanks perseus286</i></a><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">!)</i><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Create and edit a new file in /etc/modprobe.d/8192cu.conf<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 10px 20px;">
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The Wake-on-LAN feature can work in a couple of ways. First, it can boot your system from a completely shutdown state. Second, Wake-on-LAN can restore your system from a hibernated (Windows) or sleeping state (Mac). If you're working in Windows, you may need to tweak your BIOS (the firmware your computer's motherboard runs before it boots your operating system) before you start using Wake-on-LAN. Once your BIOS is set, you need to find and adjust a few system settings to allow you to wake up your computer using the Wake-on-LAN feature.<span class="annotation-footnote-wrapper clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"></span><span class="annotateButton js_text-annotate text-annotation-button icon icon-plus-circle" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s linear; -webkit-user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: KinjaIcons; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; left: auto; line-height: 16px; margin-left: 7px; opacity: 0; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: all 0.1s linear; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"></span></div>
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To access your BIOS, restart your computer and press and hold the Delete key (or whatever key your BIOS prompts you to hold) to enter the BIOS setup. Once you're in the BIOS, head to the Power management section and look for a Wake-on-LAN setting. If you find one, go ahead and make sure it's enabled, then save and exit your BIOS and start up your computer. Not all BIOS will have a straight-up Wake-on-LAN option, and on some boards you may have to enable a "Power On By PCI Devices" setting. It varies from board to board, so a little trial and error may be in order.<span class="annotation-footnote-wrapper clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"></span><span class="annotateButton js_text-annotate text-annotation-button icon icon-plus-circle" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s linear; -webkit-user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: KinjaIcons; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; left: auto; line-height: 16px; margin-left: 7px; opacity: 0; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: all 0.1s linear; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"></span></div>
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Now you're ready to enable WOL in your operating system.<span class="annotation-footnote-wrapper clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"></span><span class="annotateButton js_text-annotate text-annotation-button icon icon-plus-circle" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s linear; -webkit-user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: KinjaIcons; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; left: auto; line-height: 16px; margin-left: 7px; opacity: 0; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: all 0.1s linear; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"></span></div>
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To enable Wake-on-LAN in Windows, right-click My Computer (or Computer in Vista), select Properties, then click on Device Manager (in XP that's in the Hardware tab). Find your network card in the hardware list, right-click it and click Properties again. First go to the Power Management tab and tick the checkbox next to Allow this device to wake the computer.<span class="annotation-footnote-wrapper clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"></span><span class="annotateButton js_text-annotate text-annotation-button icon icon-plus-circle" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s linear; -webkit-user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: KinjaIcons; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; left: auto; line-height: 16px; margin-left: 7px; opacity: 0; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: all 0.1s linear; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"></span></div>
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Now head to the Advanced tab, which is full of options for your network adapter. We're concerned with two options here. The first is the Wake From Shutdown entry near the end of the list. Scroll down to it and change the value to On. The next setting I tweaked was Wake-Up Capabilities (right below Wake From Shutdown), setting the value to Magic Packet. Hit OK and everything should be set. You're ready to use the Wake-on-LAN feature using one of the methods described below.<span class="annotation-footnote-wrapper clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"></span><span class="annotateButton js_text-annotate text-annotation-button icon icon-plus-circle" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s linear; -webkit-user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: KinjaIcons; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; left: auto; line-height: 16px; margin-left: 7px; opacity: 0; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: all 0.1s linear; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"></span></div>
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I also had to update the drivers for my network adapter through the Device Manager for it to work, so for good measure you might want to do the same (right-click your network card and select Update drivers and let it download the latest from the internet).<span class="annotation-footnote-wrapper clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"></span><span class="annotateButton js_text-annotate text-annotation-button icon icon-plus-circle" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s linear; -webkit-user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: KinjaIcons; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; left: auto; line-height: 16px; margin-left: 7px; opacity: 0; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: all 0.1s linear; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Enable Wake-on-LAN in OS X<span class="annotation-footnote-wrapper clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"></span><span class="annotateButton js_text-annotate text-annotation-button icon icon-plus-circle" style="-webkit-user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: KinjaIcons; font-weight: normal !important; height: 16px; left: auto; line-height: 16px; margin-left: 7px; opacity: 0; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"></span></span></h3>
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To enable Wake-on-LAN for you Mac, open the Energy Saver Preference pane, click Options, and then tick the Wake for Ethernet network administrator access checkbox. That's all there is to it.<span class="annotation-footnote-wrapper clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"></span><span class="annotateButton js_text-annotate text-annotation-button icon icon-plus-circle" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s linear; -webkit-user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: KinjaIcons; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; left: auto; line-height: 16px; margin-left: 7px; opacity: 0; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: all 0.1s linear; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to boot from the drive you must first backup your HDD to the Akitio and then move home folder to internal data drive. Since boot drive is only 120GB, I did not have enough room to backup so I decided to do a clean install from scratch. Just download Maverick 10.9 from App Store and install. When prompted select to install on your connected thunderbolt drive. When that is finished you need to create account that you won't use, but I recommend creating backup account with admin privaleges in case anything goes wrong. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now click on the Choose... button next to Home directory:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Notice that boot time will reduce dramatically and that your data (photos/etc) will still be slow when scrolling in iphoto. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was getting around 120MB/s in Blackmagic disk test for write and around 400MB/s read which is a very big jump.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had one problem and that was the thunderbolt drive got very very hot to the touch and worries me about the longterm longevity of the internal SSD. I paired with cheap laptop USB cooler and this helped keep the temps down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ran this setup for a few months. I ran into 2 issues. The first is a known problem with apply and their engineers still haven't gotten back to me why you can't use headphone port when booting from external thunderbolt drive, osx simply won't recognize it. The second was the random sleep issues of drive not going to sleep so I had to uncheck wake for network access and powernap. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did some research and ended up deciding to make the jump to replacing internal HDD with SSD and get rid of the external thunderbolt. I have read that if professionally done it does not void warranty. I talked to apple and they would not let me pay to have them do it and verified that it voids warranty no matter what if you open it up. I repeat, it doesnt just drop warranty of the drive but you lose complete warranty of imac so proceed at your own risk. </span></div>
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Use the tool like a pizza cutter—roll it along through the gap, and it will cut the foam adhesive through the center.</div>
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Be sure to always push with the handle behind the cutting wheel. If you pull, the wheel might get pulled out of the handle.</div>
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Run the tool up along the left side of the display.</div>
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You may want to run the tool back and forth through what you've already cut a few times, to ensure you get as much of the adhesive separated as possible.</div>
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Finish pushing the opening tool to the bottom of the right side of the display.</div>
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At this point, you'll want to run the tool back around the entire display, to ensure you cut as much adhesive as possible.</div>
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While the opening tool did the lion's share of the work, the display will still be slightly adhered to the case. A plastic card will be necessary to free up the last of this adhesive.</div>
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Set the iMac face-up on a table.</div>
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Starting from the top right corner of the iMac, insert a plastic card between the display and frame.</div>
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Be careful not to insert it more than 3/8", or you may damage internal components.</div>
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Gently twist the plastic card to open the space between the display and frame.</div>
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Move slowly and be careful not to stress the display glass too much—you only need to make a gap of about 1/4".</div>
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Slide the card toward the center of the display, to cut any remaining adhesive.</div>
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As with the other side, move slowly to allow the adhesive to break, and be careful not to over-stress the display glass.</div>
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With the cards inserted as shown near the corners, gently twist the cards to increase the gap between display and case.</div>
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If there are any sections that seem to stick and won't separate, stop twisting and use one of the cards to cut the adhesive in the problem area.</div>
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Begin to lift the top of the display up from the frame.</div>
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Only lift the display a few inches—it is still attached to the iMac by data and power cables.</div>
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With the hinge free to move, the iMac will be unbalanced and hard to work on. Repairs can be completed as shown, but are faster and easier with an <a href="https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/iMac-Service-Wedge/IF145-224" style="color: #336da8; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">iMac service wedge</a>.</div>
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Pull straight up on the SATA data/power cable to disconnect it from the drive.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: start;">These are the sixth or seventh set of earbuds I've had for a succession of iPods and iPhones. I'm slightly hard of hearing, and I've gone for the 'phones that get best reviews for sound. Before these, the best I've had were the Klipsch s4i; those produce great sound, and good noise isolation, but I had to jam them so far into the ear canal that they got uncomfortable after a short while, or if I were sweating.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: start;">The Bose 'phones don't get quite so far into the bass as the Klipsch, but nothing I've ever tried beats them for clarity of overall sound. Nothing else even comes close. I find myself hearing lyrics clearly for the first time; the overall crispness and balance is absolutely amazing. I don't miss the pounding bass at all.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: start;">And I've decided, after wearing these for a couple of days, that noise isolation is over-rated. Sure, I can hear what's going on around me, but the same holds true when I hear music live, or listen over a speaker system. With the clarity of sound that Bose delivers, my attention is focussed on the music, even in a coffee shop where there are people talking at neighboring tables. I've even found that I can listen comfortably at significantly lower volumes and still distinguish the words and hear every riff and arpeggio distinctly.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: start;">And speaking of comfort. Wow! When I first put these on, I was sure that they were going to fall out, because I wasn't able to jam them into my ear canal. Didn't happen. These ear pieces sit most lightly, and they never budge! (I did find that the large tips fit my ears better and feel more secure than the medium tips that are on the ear pieces coming out of the box.) I can wear these for hours, and I feel no discomfort whatever. And because I'm listening at lower volumes, and the 'phones are not isolating me from my environment, I don't even have to take them out when I'm dealing with a cashier at a store or getting a grocery list from my wife.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: start;">Construction quality seems superb; the cables are thick and fairly stiff, so they don't tend to tangle. The "Stay Hear" tips clip into place, so that I can be virtually certain that I won't have the problem I've had with other earbuds (especially the Apple In-Ear units) that the tip stays in my ear when I pull the bud out.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: start;">The MIE2i handles the iPhone functions just fine, although, like with most iPhone headsets, it takes some practice to feel the inline controls with precision, so that you don't stop the music accidentally when you just meant to change the volume; double-clicking is just as sensitive and tricky as it is on other iPhone sets. Clarity at both ends is excellent, and the stiffness of the cables keeps the mike from rubbing on my clothes and generating noise.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: start;">The only negative thing I have to say about the Bose is that they are glaringly ugly. The cables are a bizarre black-and-white swirl; combine that unfortunate design decision with the fact that the shape of the buds and the stiffness of the cable causes the cables to stick out from your ear further than most earbuds, and the whole thing calls attention to itself and looks more than a little ridiculous. [Update: The cables relax over time, and though I still think that a uniform black (or white) would be more attractive, the buds don't seem nearly as ugly as they did when I first wrote the review. BTW, they are really, really durable; I use them all the time, and they are still sound and work just as well as they did when I bought them nearly three years ago.]</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: start;">Still, if you're looking for great sound and awesome comfort in a pair of earbuds that you're likely to be using for a long time, look no further than the Bose MIE2i. Worth every penny.</span><br />
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Bose® IE2 audio headphones</h3>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 7px;">A new standard of audio quality for greater musical detail</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 7px;">Advanced design, durable materials for lasting quality</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 7px;">StayHear® tips for greater stability during exercise and other activities</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 7px;">Hours of comfortable on-the-go listening</li>
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Bose® IE2 In-Ear Headphones: Better Sound Through Research</h4>
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Bose® IE2 audio headphones set a new standard for sound reproduction that conventional earbuds can't match. Re-engineered from the inside out, they feature an enhanced acoustic design that helps music sound smoother and more natural. And its new approach to construction provides a more secure fit and improved durability.</div>
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More Natural Sound</h5>
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Enjoy more range and realism than you can achieve with typical earbuds</div>
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IE2 headphones reproduce music with more range and realism than most typical earbuds. A modified port design, in concert with Bose's proprietary TriPort® acoustic headphone structure, results in a richer audio performance with more detail in music's high frequencies. More clarity, even at louder volume levels--an overall presence you'd expect from much larger headphones.</div>
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Designed to Stay Put While You Move</h5>
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Proprietary StayHear silicone tips offer greater in-ear stability during exercise and other active sports. Advanced materials and design allow the tips to nestle inside the bowl of the ear while also naturally conforming to the ear's upper ridge. The tips come in three sizes to fit listeners comfortably for hours on end. StayHear tips also are designed to remain more securely on the headphone itself. Overall, they provide a better on-the-go listening experience.</div>
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IE2 headphones are sturdier than ever, thanks to advanced materials, construction and manufacturing techniques--all adding up to more lasting quality for you. Each pair undergoes rigorous testing to meet Bose standards for performance and durability.</div>
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Achieve greater in-ear stability during exercise with the Bose IE2 headphones</div>
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Versatility and Convenience</h5>
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Bose IE2 headphones are engineered specifically for listening with MP3 players, laptops and portable CD players. The cable's angled plug fits directly into sources with recessed headphone jacks.</div>
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IE2 In-Ear Headphones Highlights</h5>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"><b>Enhanced acoustic design </b>incorporating a new port to help music sound smoother and more natural.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"><b>TriPort® acoustic headphone structure </b>available only from Bose, produces tonally balanced audio with deep low notes from small, in-ear headphones.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"><b>Reliable cable construction</b> enhances flexibility and durability to better withstand the rigors of everyday use.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"><b>S, M and L removable silicone StayHear tips</b> for an adjustable, personal fit.</li>
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Advanced materials, construction, and manufacturing techniques provide lasting quality</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"><b>Hologram label </b>provides a visual identifier and unique product code signifying the headphones are a genuine article from Bose. The hologram also has various security features that enable Bose to confirm the authenticity of the label. On Bose in-ear headphones, the label is located on the back side of the Y-joint's housing, where the wire splits off to each ear.</li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">UPDATE: 03/26/2014 - GoPro has recently released a firmware update v2.0 for the Hero3+ Black. Quoting the GoPro website:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Camera software update 2.0 has lots in store for your GoPro. HERO3+ Black Edition cameras will get new SuperView(tm) video modes, new Auto Low Light settings, advanced Protune(tm) controls and more. For HERO3+ Silver Edition cameras, update 2.0 increases the field of view on all photo and video modes for even more immersive, wide-angle footage. And with new wireless camera software updates via the GoPro App, updating your GoPro has never been easier."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">UPDATE - 12/9/2013 - I've just updated my video with additional video samples from the Hero3+ compared to the Hero3. I also stuck in a short video of the Sony HDR-AS30V for additional comparison.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Just about a year ago I bought the GoPro Hero3 Black. It was frought with issues and I felt it had been rushed out the door without adequate testing. Fortunately, some 3 firmware updates later, the GoPro Hero3 Black has become a reliable sports cam for me.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I was both happy and frustrated to learn that the GoPro Hero3+ Black was being introduced. With promises of improved battery life and sharper lens, I wished I had waited to buy the Hero3+ instead of the Hero3. But now that I"ve also got the Hero3+ Black, I've learned that it's not that big of an upgrade really and I still use and thoroughly enjoy using the Hero3. In fact for some things the Hero3 Black is superior to the Hero3+ Black. But battery life is definitely better and some people will love the new "super wide" mode that really gives you a stronger fisheye effect.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been using the Hero3+ a lot for time lapse phtography and for recording bike rides. I also travel with it and use it for capturing stunning wide-angle still shots. A recent Hot Air Balloon ride enabled me to use the GoPro to caputre some utterly amazing video and stills from 1000 feet above ground.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As for the claimed increased sharpness... well that's a mixed bag. What they've actually done is slightly decreased the depth of field so that you now get increased sharpness for closer objects (like yourself) while the more distant background has become ever so slightly less sharp. I use mine more for photography where I want as sharp a focus as I can get for scenic shots but I have not noticed a very significant decrease in sharpness for distance. This is a non-issue for me. Some people complaining of significant loss of sharpness actually have a defective camera and this has been confirmed by GoPro.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">One huge improvement I've noticed is the significantly better color accuracy. There is a pronounced color shift of the Hero3 Black when compared to the Hero3+. The Hero3+ has a much more accurate, neutrual color bias which is more pleasing to me. The Hero3 had a more yellowish bias.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Hero3+ does much better in bright, snow (and probably sand) situations as can be seen in my video.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The new "super" size setting gives a significantly wider field of view. As such you will notice a marked curvature of the image at the edges. This bending is most noticeable when an edge is present, You notice this much less if you're shooting at sky,,, skydiving, ski jumping etc. This is typical of a super wide angle, nearly fisheye, lens.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">▶︎ Battery LIfe:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Hero3+ comes with a marginally higher capacity battery (AHDBT-302.) It's rated at 1180mAh vs the prior battery which was rated 1050mAh. That's not much of an increase but it is an increase nonetheless. Apparently GoPro has also made some internal tweaks that results in a claimed 30% longer battery life. I generally get no more than slightly 1;15 of recording time with the Hero3 but I'm really happy to discover that the Hero3+ gives me a solid 2 hour recording time. So the battery life has most definitely been improved in the Hero3+.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">▶︎ Waterproof Housing:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The housing has seen a significant change. It is much lighter in weight, less bulky and the 2-step latching mechanism has been completely redesigned. It is now just a single latch. It doesn't feel as sturdy to me as the previous latch and I'm not sure I like it or not yet. I'll have to use it a while to see how it holds up and how it works in the field under more extensive use. One good thing is that the Hero3 and Hero3+ will fit and operate in either housing... they are interchangeable. The Hero3+ housing is rated to 30M (131') underwater vs 60M (197') underwater for the Hero3 housing. The best thing about the new housing is the ease with which the buttons now work. In the previous housing pushing the buttons required quite a bit of force and they were very inconvenient to use. This has been improved significantly in the with the new housing. The buttons are a larger diameter and much easier to push.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">▶︎ Low Light setting:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Low Light setting does improve video in lower light situations but there is still visible grain. I have compared video from both my 3 and 3+ and the 3+ allows more definition and brings out a lot more detail in what was just darkness in the conditions when compared to the Hero3 when the lighting level is low. It is a definite improvement but it's still not excellent... just a lot better.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">▶︎ Firmware updates:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">GoPro has made the process of updating the firmware on the Hero3+ different. On the Hero3 all you needed to do was download the firmware to your computer, unzip it and move the files from the firmware update folder to the top level of a formatted MicroSD card. You then inserted the card into your GoPro and then turned the camera on... the firmware would be installed.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Hero3+ firmware update process has changed. When on the GoPro website you go through a web-based update process before you can download the firmware. You have to decide whether you want to update the WiFi and the camera firmware or just one or the other. Then you download the update and unzip it, you do not move just the files from the firmware update folder to the MicroSD card, but rather you move the entire firmware update folder to the MicroSD card which you then put into the GoPro Hero3+ and turn on the camera to initiate the firmware upgrade process.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">▶︎ Blurry backgrounds:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">GoPro has already acknowledged that a random number of cameras are exhibiting the exceedingly blurry background issue. My camera is perfect and has no such issue but others are having the problem and downgrading their review of the camera because of the issue. If you get a camera that has a really bad lack of sharpness, you may have gotten a defective camera and should either immediately exchange it or at least contact GoPro for further guidance.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I like the Hero3+. It's more evolutionary of an update rather than revolutionary. If you are a current Hero3 Black owner, I wouldn't necessarily feel like you are stuck with a dinosaur. The Hero3 is still a very respectable camera in many ways. But there are some definite improvements in color balance and shooting options with the Hero 3+ and the new housing is easier to use but may not actually be as sturdy... that remains to be seen.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd also like to mention that I recently got a Sony HDR-AS30V and the short story is that it's not nearly as good as the GoPro Hero3+ Black. It is much more basic in its availabe shooting modes. The Sony has downright lousy battery life. The waterproof enclosure is only good to 16' underwater and the display is pretty poor if you ask me. I find it difficult to read because Sony has chosen a some kind of a segmented font that looks like a 1970's Texas Instruments calculator. It's really really bad.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll be updating my review as I use the Hero3+ more and more. But for now I can say that if you are feeling like you are "stuck" with your Hero3, just know that you've still got a great camera. The main improvements that are most significant for me with the Hero3+ are: improved battery life and somewhat better low light image capture.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">First is Apple TV which is easy to use (interface) but Apple limits the content you can get greatly (including no Prime Streaming built in) and it lacks a lot in features as well and is slow. The reason for selecting Apple TV is if you have other apple products that unlock features (like Amazon's content).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The second option you could consider was Roku--which really means a Roku 3 box since it is heads and tails better than past Roku boxes in terms of remote and speed. Now Roku stands out with the most content and the most features of any box with the Roku 3. It is for that reason you will see me address the Roku 3 so often in this review.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I have added quick summaries of other options to make sure everyone knows about the other options out there.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">WDTV: Are great for streaming your own content but not very user friendly.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chromecast: Is very cheap at $35 but requires other items to use (no remote included!), is limited to 16 channels according to their own site with other content broadcast via Chrome's browser not at the same quality level. This does allow you to browse the internet on your tv and is amazing for the cost but is more of a niche market than FireTV/Roku/Apple TV. But if you can live with the short comings, it is worth a look at 1/3 the price of these devices.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Smart TVs: Most of these are FINE for occasional use but not nearly as pleasant to use daily like separate boxes. Normally you pay $150-$400+ extra for features that are found in these $100 boxes. I have not found a smart tv that is decent and is also a good value for what you are getting. The advantage is that you can use your TV remote to access the content. (and that is about it!)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HTPC: These are desktop computers or Mac Minis or Android Sticks that you load software on to stream video to your TV. These can add content that no normal streaming box can access, without giving up quality but they are only recommended for something comfortable with technology that doesn't mind fixing the issues that come up from time to time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Video Game Consoles: Xbox/Playstations can access some of the content that streaming boxes do and have plenty of power to deliver the streams. The downside is the cost (unless you already have one) and the interfaces. These consoles are not designed to stream video exclusively so the interfaces are decent but can be clunky.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(You can use other options but frankly they aren't worth the hassle for the amount of hair pulling you would do.)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">+ Voice search is amazing. It really works. Less using a four directional keypad to enter in titles is a real time saver and makes you wonder why this wasn't done before but it is only for Amazon content and VEVO (music videos) (at least for now). You can not use the voice search with Netflix for example.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">+ Ready for gaming, well at least once you spend another $40. The $40 gaming controller feels a bit pricy for this type of gaming and really should be $25 or less in my opinion. That being said, this box has real games you would actually want to play instead of a VERY limited selection on Roku 3 but it is not a "REAL" console at $100 and honestly shouldn't be compared to them.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">+ Better image quality? I know you are thinking I am imagining things or have changed my setup but both myself and my wife have noticed that generally (in different apps) the video is slightly sharper and clearer. We are using the exact same tv, settings, even the same HDMI cable that we used with the Roku 3 until we switched it for the Fire TV box. We have noticed that especially on poor quality feeds that the image quality is noticeably better than under the same feeds with Roku 3. Now I don't know if there is better graphic chips or if the bigger processor can do more tweaking while streaming but it seems to be something. As image quality is a huge deal for most folks (and normally us streamers have to suffer with "decent" quality) this is certainly worth noting. So far we have noticed this under Netflix, VEVO and Plex.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">- It lacks soul. Yes, soul. The Fire TV box and remote are built like a dvd player or appliance--cold, fast, efficient. Unlike Roku 3 where the box seems to have a bit of the personally of TiVo--it feels warmer, more inviting. Everything about this box is business like, including the interface and the lack of options to change it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">- The interface is more than merely "cold". It is simply less flashy/pretty than the Roku 3 interface. While fast, I am less tempted to wander around like I do on Roku 3. It seems like they are being pretty dependent on the voice search function which is great but it leaves you missing out on the random items you find along the way with the Roku 3 interface. I will update this more upon extended use.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">- The voice search only works for Amazon's own content (and VEVO) and not most 3rd party channels like Netflix.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">- The remote is not ready for gaming use, compared to the Roku 3 remote with gaming buttons when you turn the remote sideways and more sensors for detecting movements/motion.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">- Another feature about the remote I don't care for is the use of Bluetooth instead of WIFI. Roku used to use Bluetooth on their former high end box but instead replaced it with wifi to increase battery life and to add the headphone jack in the remote. It will likely take a few weeks of use to report battery life but this has me concerned.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">- No headphone jack function like Roku 3. Now to be honest, if you use that on the Roku 3 it can be a battery drain but it is a cool feature.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">- Missing some popular channels at launch. There is no HBO-Go, no M-Go and no Vudu. In addition, the channel count is much less than Roku's at launch.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">- Channels operate differently on FireTV than the do on Roku 3. See my notes below for more information.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This Fire TV box took so much from other company's products with only a few missing items. They focused on delivering smooth, fast performance with less frills than Roku 3 for the same price. While there are missing channels and features, the biggest failure for me PERSONALLY is the cost of the gaming controller. Without it, this box isn't ready for gaming but adding 40% more for the ability to try out the functionality seems pretty steep. Had Amazon included it with every Fire TV box, they would have sold a lot more games and had everyone calling the Roku 3 a poor value.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you have a Roku 3 box, really look at the missing channels and features--are they something you could give up for faster performance? (Also look at my notes on the features of the various common apps.) If the answer is yes, then grab one of these and try it. If no, wait to see if Amazon adds features/channels. At the very least, consider an Fire TV box for your next box.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I do not personally recommend Apple TV as they are still too slow and lack too many features and functions. Apple keeps promising something amazing but delivering minor improvements.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you are on a budget and have an Android based tablet, consider Chromecast. It is a good value for the price but you do give up features and content to save on the cost compared to Roku 3 & Fire TV.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am giving this box a 4.8 rating, compared to a 4.2 for Roku 3.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I will update this review regularly for a while, so check back for more information! Also if you have questions or comments, please feel free to ask them in the comments section. Either myself or other helpful people will do our best to respond to them.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Regarding comments that I received the item free or are paid by Amazon to write this review, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I paid the full list price and local sales tax for this box (grrr). Nothing was provided to me nor was I paid anything to write about this device. I do not work for Amazon, I own my own company. For this item, I am just a customer. In fact, I didn't expect to even purchase a Fire TV prior to it being announced because I figured it would only deal with Amazon's own content which I feel is much weaker than Netflix. In fact, I have talked two different family members into getting Netflix over Amazon's Prime Streaming service in the past month alone.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This has been repeated over and over in the comments but HBO Go support for me is not something I am interested in as I do not have cable service anymore nor do I feel that HBO is a better value than Netflix. I would not go without Netflix support at all but I personally think HBO Go is more niche for many people and honestly I bet this device will get that channel before too long. Clearly the HBO Go people seem to be pushing the issue but I know 11 streaming box users and none use HBO Go so while I noted the missing feature above, people still seem to want to beat me up over it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It needs to be said that some channels require cable/satellite subscriptions (to those channels) like HBO Go (not currently on this box), Showtime, ESPN, etc. Even if you have HBO, it does not mean that your provider allows the HBO Go, so look into that before purchasing any box with that in mind. I do like the Bloomberg TV (not available on Roku 3) App which actually features a LIVE TV feature.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">NETFLIX APP: Is the "older" style with the tall covers (like VHS boxes) instead of the "new" Netflix interface that uses short wide covers (like on Roku 3). Netflix has said they are moving everything to the new software but the Fire TV box doesn't have it yet. That makes comparing performance harder from Roku 3 to Fire TV. On my ISP provider Comcast (Netflix recently agreed to pay Comcast so they have faster streams to customers) I do not see a HUGE improvement in performance in buffing like you see on other channels. What it does seem to do is start in better quality and/or speed the improvement in quality. My guess is that the Netflix app needs to be tweaked to maximize the performance of this hardware. One positive with the FireTV app is that it plays the entire TV episode BEFORE switching to a small window with the countdown starting for the next episode. I can't tell you how many times I had to click, click, click and click just to see the end of an episode under Roku 3.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Also, the FireTV Netflix app has two features that were removed from the updated Roku app. Before going into a TV show, FireTV tells you how many total episodes that Netflix has. On the Roku it shows you the number of seasons instead. I personally prefer the number of episodes but clearly that is a personal preference. Another point worth mentioning is that the FireTV Netflix App shows you how many items you have in your list and what item number you are on. That information is missing from the Roku 3 Netflix app.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">AMAZON PRIME CONTENT: Does not loop--a "feature" they should add (and likely will). This means once you get to the end, it just stops instead of keeping going.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Voice search DOES cover some 3rd party content, despite everyone reporting it works on Amazon's content only. I have repeated confirmed it supports the VEVO app and will find music videos in that app. That may mean that other 3rd party apps are covered as well, or certainly might be able to be in the future. If you search for something that has PRIME content and VEVO content, it will default to the option with the most options. To switch to the other, simply arrow up and either left or right to see the music videos or PRIME search results.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I noticed this box featured an optical out port but normally run everything through my LG TV (via HDMI) and then use an optical out to my receiver (so I never have to change the receiver's settings) so I wasn't excited about this addition to the Fire TV box over my Roku 3 boxes. I stand corrected. I decided to run my audio via the optical cable into the receiver directly from this Fire TV box (something that I can not do with Roku 3) and it fixed all random lip-sync issues I have from time to time on the Roku 3 box (and the same with the HDMI output on this box).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Now I know this is not a typical setup for many people but I do know that tons of people have lip-sync issues with HDMI connections so being able to bypass the HDMI minefield is much more important than I expected.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This app works better than the Roku 3 app performance wise...one quick example is that some content simply fails on the Roku 3 app--try watching Britney Spears's Work B**CH (don't make fun of me!). Vevo can play this video fine on YouTube and on the Fire TV app but struggles on Roku 3's app. SOME of VEVO's content is also available via VOICE SEARCH too.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I do miss the jump back button on the remote that Roku 3 features. It is a tiny thing but it once you are used to jumping back to see that painting in the background or catch that line that you didn't hear because the phone rang, or someone was talking, you feel lost without it. UPDATE! They did include this feature but hid it abit. You simply double click the reward button to skip back. I haven't seen anyone else mention this tip so you saw it here first people!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I do like that the "enter" button is back in the center of the directional keys. This is the way it used to be on Roku boxes before someone at Roku decided to move it below the directional keys, so you have to move your thumb oddly to press it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What multitasking you ask? Since you haven't seen this advertised or mentioned elsewhere, I can understand your confusion but try this: Load a Pandora stream...then click on the HOME button and browse for movies/tv you want to watch. As long as you are in the Home/Amazon Prime content, you can browse WHILE Pandora continues playing. Now Pandora dies when you enter another APP like Netflix but it shows you that Multitasking is built into the operating system and may be utilized in future features. (Again, this TIP is only found here!)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Another update: This tip also works when browsing PLEX content before you play something. So even when utilizing a 3rd party app, it can keep going. When it changes to a new song, a small window pops up on the lower right hand side of the screen to tell you know the new song title and artist.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Compared to the Roku app, PLEX for FireTV is totally different. There are some cool features, like the backgrounds, the screensaver using your photos and the MUCH faster menuing (night and day from Roku 3) but I do miss the channels not requiring a couple clicks to switch to ONLINE to see. I do miss that clicking the play button doesn't play a clip, instead you select it (click) and then play it (second click).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">FireTV has a screensaver that is honestly pretty cool in my opinion. I am not saying you can't do this with other boxes but no other box comes set up to display random photos (and includes a decent amount of beautiful photos as well.) This functionality covers 3rd party apps like Netflix and Plex too so you have a seamless slideshow no matter what you are using when it starts. This is the sort of thing you see on PCs not streaming boxes and it is a nice touch.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Many commenters have argued that this device is not gaming changing and many have rating my review not helpful because of that title.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I said "Nothing else is this fast" to which one commenter said, "Nobody cares how fast an streaming box is. That's not a game changer"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Actually using it you will see what I mean. This is the first time a company has put so much $$ into creating a very solidly made hardware device. Like a fast computer (which this basically is), it will depend on software that is written for it to fully show off its abilities.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When AMD created their first processor that competed directly with Intel's higher end processors, it was a game changer, correct?, because it changed the landscape of personal computers forever, lowered pricing, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">People will look back in 5 years at this moment and say Amazon's FireTV changed how consumer streaming video boxes were made (instead of barely enough processing power to stream, they became able to compete with HTPCs and Mac Minis). This is the beginning of a new generation of streaming boxes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I said "Voice search is amazing." and they said "Not unique, by any means. My xbox, ps3, tablets, all have this, and all work amazingly."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Find one person who owns this that doesn't say this voice search works better than anything from Google, Apple or Microsoft. The fact that little old Amazon could out deliver those tech giants is SHOCKING. The fact this works via a tiny remote makes it very easy to get use to. There is no other product in this price range that does this and no other streaming box even offers it at any cost.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I said "Ready for gaming, well at least once you spend another $40" to which they said: "And stick to basic android games. No thanks. I have a REAL console (or a couple of them) that can play REAL games..."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This isn't meant to compete with more expensive game consoles. It is meant to bring gaming to streaming boxes, just like tablets/cellphones have brought gaming to millions. They have not replaced gaming consoles (and likely never will) just like this box will not have you ditch your gaming console either but instead it opens you up to tons of games you CAN'T play on that same console. Just imagine all the cheap under $5/free games you can enjoy on your FireTV box. As I said above in my main review, I think Amazon really should have thrown in the controller to really get peopling playing the games but I can understand why they needed to limit their losses.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Again, this is a best in class hardware device with real gaming and the best voice search on any tech device (and the only one for a streaming video box). Every future streaming box will be measured against this one. Tell me how that isn't game changing?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Please understand that everyone has different priorities and requirements so no one box is going to be perfect for everyone. I am attempting to do my best to address most of the many options and provide a decently balanced opinion of them.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">-Decent quality for 5 pack of cheap ties.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">-Very skinny (a little under 2", see pictures) so make sure you read that before buying.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">-Im 6'1" and tie length is able to fit me perfect</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">-Colors accurate to product pictures</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Highly recommend for the price.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">With K-Cups being so expensive, I have become more picky at finding deals. Most prices are over .60 per cup. That's a lot of money a month for daily cup of coffee. Nothing is cheap, and neither are these at about .50 per cup. I remember the good ol' days when the K-cups were not more than about .35 each, and it wasn't that long ago.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">I have been buying K-Cups at Costco when I lived in Arizona, and the Tully's they carry are okay. Newman's Own are just okay too. Those run .475 per cup, so that's been a little better. I recently moved to NYC so started buying K-cups on Amazon. This Martinson coffee comes close to the same price as the ones at Costco, but the flavor is superior. This is the first cup of coffee I have in the morning. It's got a richer flavor, fresher somehow, than the others I have tried.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">The only other thing I can note about these is that the construction of the pods is about perfect; I didn't find any grinds in the box leaving me to believe there were no leaking pods. Almost all the pods had a little air puffing the foil out; which I've noticed a lot of the Keurig brands have flat foils, anyways, so I'm not even sure if it matters that much, although I've had grinds brew through on some of the flat pods. The only other difference I can mention is the material of the foil top is different than Keurig brand pods; these are slightly harder and smoother (almost like a plastic or polymer,) but it doesn't seem to effect the brew process at all, and I didn't seem to get any grinds in my cup, so all in all it just doesn't matter to me. Still better than brewing through a regular coffee pot (even from fresh ground beans,) and I don't think I'll ever get tired of my Keurig coffee maker.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02048714912004807434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-452382394920865383.post-85096053248965935822014-08-15T12:42:00.002-07:002014-08-15T12:42:13.901-07:00Fitbit Flex Wireless Activity + Sleep Wristband, Black vs Pebble Watch vs Nike Fuelband<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Fitbit Flex does have visual feedback in the form of small white lights: They blink as you're charging, they have a special blink if you put it into sleep mode. The fuelband has a very bright and easy to see LED bar.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I find myself fumbling a bit with the clip mechanism of the Flex like I do when I have to button my own shirt cuffs. After it was clipped though, it feels secure and I am not one to put on and remove devices like this. I want to set it and forget it which this does very well.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Fitbit Flex feels very comfortable on the wrist. The pictures don't do it justice. For me personally this is the one defining factor that really makes the Flex shine compared to Pebble and Fuelband. It feels super light weight, doesn't grab, and doesn't look nearly as big/thick as the pictures make it look.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When typing on at a keyboard, I prefer the feel of the Flex. The rubber is flat and thin so it adds very little against the edge of a keyboard.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Flex does have replaceable bracelets and colors, which means the device is more convertible and flexible going forward. The fuelband wins on the look with the LED clock. The pebble was nice in that you could customize the face to whatever you could find to download.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I wear mine in the shower without issues.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The battery charging is my biggest gripe with the FLEX. You have to remove the little pebble from the band and plug into port on computer (dont recommend plugging into usb wall outlet). This means you would need to have computer hooked up with power going to this gadget. It does charge fast and mine would easily last 5-6 days if I dont have bluetooth constantly connected but rather sync once a day.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Flex syncs wirelessly with Bluetooth 4.0 via the smartphone or via an adapter to a computer. For those without a smart phone or a locked down phone that work doesn't allow you to install apps, this could be a deal maker for you. It's not a constant sync but initiates as soon as you open the app on the smartphone. I haven't noticed any significant battery life loss. Not all phones are supported with Bluetooth 4.0-- most phones on the market don't yet have Bluetooth 4.0. You'll want to check Fitbit's website to see if your phone is supported. On the upside, the Flex does come with a Bluetooth adapter you can plug into a PC or Mac to sync wirelessly via the computer. It really adds extra work and decreases the usefulness of wireless sync, but it's do-able.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The software, to me, is the major differentiating factor between the two devices. The hardware looks entirely different, and there are some small differences in what the hardware can do, but the delivery through the app is what makes them clearly meant for different targets.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Fitbit software is the same software in use for all current Fibit devices. As soon as you launch it, a sync begins and your latest data will be presented. While the UP presents more current data on the "HOME" page, Fitbit has other tabs where you can explore the data they present. UPDATE: I discovered that the Fitbit software does do single activity trending if you turn the phone sideways: Hours/days/weeks, etc. It doesn't compare it to another statistic, but better than nothing.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Both devices sync your data to a website. The Flex presents a more insightful view of your data on the website.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I am going to keep this until Apple releases their smartwatch</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02048714912004807434noreply@blogger.com0