In April 2014, the Swiss device maker Logitech, introduced the Logitech K830, a backlit HTPC keyboard with touchpad. This backlit wireless keyboard is designed to enhance your connected-TV experience. It allows your to wirelessly control your computer when it is connected to the TV, and a great companion for your … read more
In this post, I will present a very simple USB plug-and-play Raspberry Pi remote control. Recently, I listed the 7 Raspberry Pi accessories to build a XBMC media center in which I listed a USB IR remote. If you are in the market for a Raspberry Pi remote control, you … read more
Recently, we saw presented the media center operating systems that are available for Raspberry Pi. In this post, let us look at 7 Raspberry Pi accessories you may need to build a low-power HTPC. The objective is to be able to play media from a home server, over the wireless … read more
The Broadcom Crystal HD cards (BCM70012 and BCM70015) bring 1080p HD video decoding capability to low powered media centers and netbooks. Software decoding HD video strains the CPU and many cases causes stutters and skips during video playback. In this post, I will explain how to install Broadcom Crystal HD … read more
Couple months back I wrote a post on how to fix wireless problems in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release. As a follow up, I reviewed a few good Linux compatible Wifi cards (USB). Some readers said, it was helpful to find all Linux compatible Wifi cards in one place. So, continuing … read more
Couple months back I wrote a post on how to fix wireless problems in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release. Although I listed a few good Linux compatible USB wireless adapters that work, several readers emailed me asking if I could a bit more detailed list. In this post, I am going … read more
Couple months back I wrote a post on how to fix wireless problems in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release. Although I listed a few good Ubuntu compatible wireless cards (USB) that work, several readers emailed me asking if I could a bit more detailed review. In this post, I am going … read more
Ubuntu dropped the ball again when it comes to wireless support (in my case the Atheros AR9285/AR9287 cards). Release 12.04 being a Long Term Support (LTS) release, I was hopping that the long existing Ubuntu wifi problems would be rectified. Let us look at some ways to fix wireless problems … read more
Few days back, I published a post describing how to configure the Chinavision MCE USB remote to work with XBMC and Logitech Harmony Remote. I did further research and reading after this and ended up improving my setup. Since XBMC Dharma, the “keymap.xml” file no longer exists. It now called … read more