RASPBERRY PI
BEING TOUTED AS
A SOLUTION TO
LOSS OF UK TV IN SPAIN
Story written by Jeremy Stenton-Jones Google+
With the date now set for February what are the real options for UK TV shows in Spain?
With many different suppliers jostling to promote the brand and or service that they are selling some people are becoming confused by the vast array of options and solutions that are available.
We have been amazed just how many new start up Businesses have just appeared over night offering various types of IPTV and internet based services. Many of these start up Businesses are trading off nothing more than a pay as you go disposable mobile phone and a Facebook page.
UNHAPPY FACEBOOK MEMBERS
NO SIGNAL
NO FILMON FOR THIS LADY
NOBODY WANTS TO HELP THIS POOR CHAP
NOBDY WANTS TO HELP THIS CHAP EITHER
When choosing a solution to the possible loss of UK TV on the Costa del Sol & Portugal in February 2014 you need to first decide what channels you will be happy with, and how much you want to spend.
With several suppliers singing from the roof tops and praising Raspberry PI as a solution, we must disagree due to the following reasons;
1. Raspberry PI is incredibly difficult to program
2. Raspberry PI is incredibly difficult to use
3. Raspberry PI is relies on FILMON and or offshoots of
4. Raspberry PI offers no live support
5. Raspberry PI is a opensource service with streamers making no money out of streaming so if the service is removed they are under absolutely no obligation to get you back up and running.
6. Raspberry PI is NOT a proper solution to the problem.
Example - Austin Toombs is a PhD student in Human Computer Interaction Design in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, he is a "Tech" savvy PhD student in Computer design and even he has had issues using a Raspberry PI to watch TV, please do not take our word for it Google it and read his complaints that include; These are the words of Austin Toombs -
So I tried to have it install raspbmc itself through the boot menu that comes as part of the NOOBs package. That ended up looking like it would work really well, but then at the last minute, after it started trying to connect to the servers and update itself, then all I would get were kernel panics. I don’t think it had much to do with my power supply or my keyboard / mouse setup (which seems to be the “have you tried restarting it yet?” of the raspberry pi world) because it would at least get as far as connecting to the servers.
He then says "Man it’s amazing how computer illiterate I can be sometimes, even with a background in computer science"
What chance does your average Family living in Spain have of conquering a piece of kit that is a nightmare to use and set up?
OK so we have a PhD student unable to get to grips with his Raspberry PI and then it gets even worse when he says.....
"It’s really hard to work on these kinds of projects when there are only a few minutes at a time when we can figure it out. I think to really get it working, I’m going to have to section off an entire day or a large chunk of a day, make myself lots of coffee (or maybe something that will relax me for when I get frustrated with all of the “connection timed out errors”
He called using a Raspberry PI a "Project" not entertainment!
MRSKYTV said on the 12th December 2013
"We simply cannot, and will not stick our head in the sand, total reliance on Filmon as a source of UK TV is both irresponsible and bad advice in our opinion as many people who have been worried about the new Astra 2E footprint possibly leaving thousands without UK TV are sold a system that may or may not work"
This is still our opinion with reference to Raspberry PI as a solution to the possible loss of UK TV on the Spanish Costa del Sol and Portugal.
Everyone agrees that Filmon could disappear, and if it does you may be left with a worthless Raspberry PI and a mini keyboard that comes with it or often sold separately.
Raspberry PI uses Raspbmc and Raspbmc has a Facebook page so you can read the comments of hundreds of confused & fed up people trying to watch TV with this device.
See for yourself. https://www.facebook.com/raspbmc you can read loads of moaning and frustrating posts on the Raspbmc Facebook page from upset people.
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