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Hi,
I have purchased the pi B+ and was able to boot it up. Aside from that, i'm unsure where to start next:)
I am trying to use the pi to use as an alarm. When the sensor triggers the alarm, the pi will play back a video. Any suggestions as to where I should focus my attention?
thanks in advance,
-torry

Perhaps look through http://www.themagpi.com/ to find articles which chime with you.

okay, thanks for that. I found one article that might help but the video playback part is still a mystery to me

It should be straightforward to make a call to an external program from whatever programming language you're using.
You could use omxplayer for video playback.

Gr.
Dirk.

There is an example of the use of omxplayer in this tutorial by the Raspberry Pi Foundation -

http://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/cress-egg-heads/