Paul Verrall's Blog

I wanted to use a Raspberry Pi to act as a Bluetooth audio receiver or my Hi-Fi so that I could connect a phone/tablet easily to some proper speakers wirelessly. Rather than reinventing the wheel 'kmonkey' has already achieved most of what I set out to do over here ; check this out first. The only issue now is the manual intervention needed to connect up a new Bluetooth source to the output sink. I initially created a simple bash script to poll pulseaudio (every 5 seconds) and run the necessary commands as and when a new device is connected. You can see the script here and all the pertinent commands are explained over in kmonkey's blog. This is all good, but will need to be run manually using something like, # nohup ./bt_audio_attach & This is a bit rubbish and you'll be pleased to know there is a better way to get this done, UDEV! Over at the Raspbery Pi forums   there's some discussion on using UDEV scripts to auto...

UPDATE: 18 May 2013 - A new firmware (v5) has changed the way ads are handled on the Roku such that this guide is no longer relevant.  Roku are are a pretty neat little media streaming box but one thing that I think lets them down are the trashy and mostly irrelevant adverts on the home page. Wouldn't it be great if you could get rid of these? The ads are served by the third party ad platform,  ZEDO . You can block the ads from displaying by simply blocking this domain entirely or by being more targeted and blocking the specific sub-domain serving the Roku ads. A TCPDUMP of my Roku shows that the ad images currently come from 'd7.zedo.com' (although this may change). I block them by adding a custom DNS record for this sub-domain to my home router pointing to the loopback address (127.0.0.1). There are or course many other ways you could do this, but the best way will largely depend on your own set-up and resources.