Create a media center using a RasPi ?

I think about creating a media center using a Raspi and a SATA hard-drive. It has to be out-of-the-box for the user (I don’t want use a keyboard or a mouse) when I want watch a movie.

This is only some tracks. I haven’t enough time to do it this days.

 

Material :

  • Raspberry-Pi => version ?  or a BananaPi ?  (on this last, there is a SATA input)
  • SupTronics X300 if Raspberry-Pi to have SATA. I don’t want lag, even for Full HD movies.
  • A IR remote, to wake up the Pi and control the OS.

Softwares :

  • OS : Specific OS (Raspbian) with XBMC software or MediaCenter OS ?
  • I want to creat (or use, if it exist) a tool to copy datas from a USB key to the hard drive, with the remote.
  • How to shutdown/hibernate a Pi ? And with a remote ?

Sources (of inspiration) :

X300 une carte d’extension pour votre Raspberry Pi

BananaPi et HummingBoard : La guerre des clones aura-t-elle lieu ?

https://coreight.com/content/raspberry-pi-media-center-xbmc

http://raspberrypimaroc.blogspot.com/2013/12/allumer-et-etteindre-un-raspberry-pi.html

 

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