Ultimately, it might become the house media server but for right now it’s just a fun toy to experiment with.
First lesson learned: the first time you boot it up the HDMI port doesn’t work. You need to connect to a monitor via the RCA jack and choose HDMI output post the first re-boot. Now the screen is crystal clear amazing but isn’t running at a full 1920×1080. It seems to only allow me to go up to 1794×954.
Second lesson: I’m writing this post while running updates. Not the best idea in the world. The board is running fine, but it doesn’t seem to like doing something else while running such a processor intensive task. I’m thinking one thing at a time is the best way to go here.
The only problem I’ve run into so far is that I can’t seem to see the rest of my network. I’m sure there’s something I’m missing so it’ll get figured out eventually.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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