{"id":6662,"date":"2015-02-08T11:37:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T00:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=6662"},"modified":"2015-02-08T11:37:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T00:37:37","slug":"raspberry-pi-2-model-b-unboxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/raspberry-pi-2-model-b-unboxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Unboxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, my Raspberry Pi 2 arrived in the post during the week (in fact, two of them to be precise) to replace a long in the tooth original Raspberry Pi Model B and a fried revised Model B. I have to say, initial impressions are very positive and I&#8217;ve only\u00a0mucked around with media centre solutions so far.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s the unboxing video:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"760\" height=\"452\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EE0tKjF62SQ\" frameborder=\"0\" type=\"text\/html\"><\/iframe>\n<p>In terms of high level specs, the Raspberry Pi 2 has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a quad-core Broadcom BCM2836 ARM CPU,<\/li>\n<li>1GB RAM,<\/li>\n<li>micro SD slot,<\/li>\n<li>40 pin extended GPIO,<\/li>\n<li>4 x USB 2.0 ports,<\/li>\n<li>4 pole stereo output,<\/li>\n<li>micro USB power port.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had issues getting my preferred choice of OpenELEC installed on both RPi 2 units with all attempts running into a kernel panic of some variety. After trying five different micro SD cards (including three brand new SanDisk Ultra UHS-1 8GB cards) on two different computers to burn the images and downloading the image numerous times I gave up. This was odd given that the MD5 hash matched what was on the website\u00a0but rather than sink any more time into trying to get it to work I decided to go back to RaspBMC.<\/p>\n<p>I had originally used RaspBMC on my original and revised Model B units but swapped to\u00a0OpenELEC after finding that it performed notably better on the same hardware. However, upon looking up\u00a0RaspBMC this time around I discovered that it\u00a0is becoming OSMC (which is Open Source Media Centre).\u00a0Long story short, I am now running\u00a0OSMC \u00a0and look forward to its continued development.<\/p>\n<p>In initial testing, performance has been fast and fluid but will put\u00a0Raspberry Pi 2 through its paces with some 1080p content as well as installing\u00a0some\u00a0add-ons to leverage the extra computing power. In the meantime, stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, my Raspberry Pi 2 arrived in the post during the week (in fact, two of them to be precise) to replace a long in the tooth original Raspberry Pi Model B and a fried revised Model B. I have to say, initial impressions are very positive and I&#8217;ve only\u00a0mucked around with media centre &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/raspberry-pi-2-model-b-unboxing\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[976,332,18],"tags":[2024,2221,1864,2222,1931],"class_list":["post-6662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arm","category-processors","category-technology","tag-openelec","tag-osmc","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-raspberry-pi-2","tag-raspbmc","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Raspberry-Pi-Logo.png?fit=300%2C267&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}