Let’s start into the new year with a completed redesign. During the process I tried to archive following goals: Make it responsive Since a third of all my visitors are using a mobile device or tablet, I wanted to provide a better experience especially for smaller displays. Make it faster The latest posts were very popular, which lead to a higher server load and long loading time or even complete downtimes. Therefore…
In this post I’m going to show how you can configure your Hyperion Ambilight for every HDMI source. If you don’t have an Ambilight setup yet, I kindly refer you to my previous guide, which will give you an initial ambilight effect for the media center running on the Rpi. This guide will then go one step further and enable the ambilight effect for all kind of HDMI input sources like PS3, XBOX,…
I’m really surprised and disappointed that Apple prevents us from using their USB SuperDrive with non Apple devices. How to outsmart Apple’s firmware Fortunately, with a little hack, we can awake the drive from its deep slumber. It’s required to send a “magic” byte sequence after the drive was connected. I got this byte sequence from a source I no longer can find on the web. So, I don’t take…
