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Ok so I was thinking of building a media centre, with the idea in mind that it needed to basically be able to play CDs/MP3 stuff etc by plug and play and be used much like a normal home stereo. The plan then I also thought would be a remote control so I could just flick tracks or press a source button to switch to radio. Now standardly Radio is simple but I thought maybe I could have a DAB radio with a small LCD output as part of the media centre as one of the sources and the Pi could handle the DAB decoding and stuff.

Essentially I had this hairbrain idea that I could have a media centre type thing which was a NAS server to my house, could play music off a memory stick or card that I plug in, have radio/DAB/internet radio and all the things you normally have from your hifi but all controlled with the interface of a remote. With a further option to be able to use it for web tv, but generally I want it to run headless with just a Little LCD output tell you the track or radio station and all controlled from a standard TV type remote.

So Any ideas what interfaces and gubbins I might need to make that work? I have a little bit of an idea but not all of it.

Cheers

XBMC ?
supports remote, lcd, dab (through tvheadend I think) ...

I havent really explored XBMC a whole yet, but I didnt know if it was more of an equipment peripheral or software thing.

I will have to do some reading then!

I am wondering though how I could do some of XBMC and also have it as a NAS server.

Looking for an all in one low power solution just for playing tunes and stuff.

Many XBMC distros come with some fileservers installed by default today ...
which makes a Pi using those distro a NAS ot of the box.
You might have alook into CEC : http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=CEC
and here :

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Remote_controls

ghans

XBMC can run as uPnP server and client for easy sharing of media.
I think it also has the option to control a Samba share, but of course you can setup whatever services you want behind the scenes. Raspbmc is a good start. I tried it out about a year ago. I had hoped to use a USB DVD drive to play CDs and DVDs, but that didn't work out at the time. You will have to do some manual config to do anything with DVDs. Rip your DVDs to a USB disk drive and it works nicely.

I switched to an Android TV stick to get Netflix as well as XBMC, and gave up on optical media.

ok so far so good, sounds like I can pretty much make it do what I want for the most part, but how about DAB/FM radio reception?

if you can fin out the internet stream for the DAB/FM radio, you can just add it to XBMC as a playlist file or a stream file (.strm).
if you can listen to your DAB Radio with a DVB-T Tuner, you'll have to install tvheadend on your pi (or another computer on the same LAN) and activate the PVR part of XBMC.
if your radio is only available via FM, I have no idea yet, sorry.