I could do but I like having access to the movie posters and information. There's a lot of content, over 1500 movies and 100 TV series. You would be running a full version of Kodi on the tablet with all the goodies that includes such as cover art, posters fanart etc. The content would just be store...

I think I your tablet is capable of playing all your content, I would install kodi on that and just use the pi to share the content via samba. Set up kodi to access the content on the share.

Thanks FM81, Lots of good info here. I had actually just been playing around with MPD on my macbook to try and get a feel for it. One of the great things I discovered was the resume functionality. Puts it right to the top of my list. So I guess my next step is to get hold of a pi and start playing w...

Thanks FM81, The PI consumes around 0,2A in HALT-state; see no way to avoid this without cutting power? OK, that is not much current for a car-battery, but it is far away from "sleeping mode". Very true, but if it turns out that is sufficiently little to not drain the battery and then be able to sta...

There are several safe shutdown ideas found by googling, also many users have undertaken similar projects: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/61877/shutdown-controller-for-raspberry-pi-in-a-car A RPi B+/2B with a 5V2A PSU should be able to power a WiFi Dongle and a 2.5" USB HDD if the U...

After a little more research, it seems my assumption that the pi even has a sleep/suspend function was incorrect. Certainly makes things more difficult, although it's not quite dead yet. The Pi 2 B apparently uses about 230mA at idle. Obviously they vary quite widely, but an standard car battery has...

This is a project that's been on my mind for several years, but I've never been able to work out how to do it to my satisfaction. I think with a raspberry pi and a couple of accessories I may finally be able to manage it. I would like to build a headless hires music player for the car with enough ha...