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Aware of the accessory or ignition status so it can turn off the Pi at the appropriate times.Directly powered from the battery to avoid abrupt power loss.Able to provide sufficient current for the Raspberry Pi and any external devices.With these factors in mind, the ideal in-car power supply should be: Powering directly from the battery will either lead to inconvenience in the form of manually turning the Pi on and off, or to eventually draining the car’s battery completely.Simply plugging the Pi into an accessory socket that loses power abruptly when the car is turned off is just asking for trouble. The Raspberry Pi is a computer, and, as such, should really be started up and shut down properly to avoid corrupting the SD card or any externally attached drives.

Therefore, a relatively hefty power supply might be needed, depending on the components you’re working with. If you attach a device with a higher current draw, such as a USB-powered hard drive, you need to go through an externally powered USB hub. If you add USB accessories, the power requirement obviously increases.

The Raspberry Pi requires a 5v power supply that can provide somewhere around 1A of power.

Although it’s easy to draw power from an accessory socket while the car is running, there are a few things that need to be taken into consideration: Providing power to the Raspberry Pi and its components proved to be my biggest hurdle in this project.

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Selecting an interface theme that works well on a low-resolution screen is probably the most challenging issue I’ve faced from a software configuration standpoint, and I’m really not sure I’ll ever solve that one. Setting up an IR remote and adding a script to monitor my power supply required that I set up SSH to log in remotely, but neither of those tasks proved to be difficult or time-consuming. Most configuration in both distributions is done through the menus and is very easy to accomplish. I gave both a try and ultimately found OpenElec to be more responsive on the Pi, so that’s what I’ve stuck with.

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Two operating system images are available for download here that provide a complete XBMC-based media center distribution, OpenElec and Raspbmc. There is essentially one full-blown software media player for the Raspberry Pi that I’m aware of, and that is XBMC, which plays a multitude of both audio and video formats. The software part of building a media player with the Raspberry Pi is incredibly simple, to the point that I won’t spend a lot of time talking about it. Rii Mini Wireless Keyboard with Mouse Touchpad– $17

Raspberry Pi Car Power Supply Ignition Switch – $25.00 RASPBERRY PI MODEL B 756-8308 Raspberry Pi B – $43.50Įxternally powered USB hub (eBay) – $4.90īussmann (BP/HHH-RP) ATM Mini Circuit Converter– 2 x $6.99 This was one of those times when I didn’t really have anything I needed on-hand, except for a handful of USB and audio cables, so I have the misfortune of knowing with a pretty high degree of precision how much it cost me to put this together. When I decided to build an in-car media computer, I got to work collecting all of the necessary components. Second, I really wanted to put my Raspberry Pi to good use after having it lie around for several months while I worked on other things. Although my car came equipped with a DVD player, storing discs in the car and constantly swapping them in and out, not to mention having to wrestle with those diabolical DVD menus, is not a direction I wanted to go. First, I wanted to create an in-car media player capable of storing enough videos and music to keep things interesting for my kids on long trips.

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