I might be starting to agree with you. My RPi version 1B is a tad creakily slow. I seem to remember that the XBMC distribution worked reasonably well as a media centre. My real need in the RPi is to get back to 1981 and my BBC Micrcomputer B (Brown Bovery patented BBC in Europe, so the Beeb always h...

Love the new desktop!
Is Pixel the correct flavour
of Raspbian with which to
run the iPlayer? Or as a
media-centre in general?

If not, which distribution
will allow me to run All4,
My5, iPlayer etc?

Raspberry Pi model B, all updates and upgrades to Raspbian made today. StarTech USB2.0 802.11g/n (150WN1X1) wifi dongle. I configured etc/network/interfaces and etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf files according to the YouTube Tutorial by 'Circuit Basics' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfHRLLRb...

Yes, I think the tutorial presupposes more than 5 minutes acquaintance
with Pi Language - sudo is exactly the word I need - thanks!

Link (belatedly)
http://www.projects.privateeyepi.com/ho ... ce-monitor

I have been attempting to setup a webcam server
and have made some modifications to Motion. How
do I reset Motion to its default values - perhaps a
reinstall?

I am attempting to follow privateeyepi's tutorial on how to set up a home webcam.
The first instruction is mkdir /home/webcam. Pi's response = mkdir: cannot create
directory '/home/webcam': Permission denied

Well! That was a let-down

...empty, for some reason?

I have had the RPi for about 4 months. It has worked perfectly up until I attempted to add some lines of code to make a webcam server (following this - https://medium.com/p/2d5a2d61da3d). Raspbian now boots up, works for about 2 minutes, then closes down. Changing the 8Gb Raspbian SD to Raspbmc (on ...