Oldschool Xbox + rPi?

[ToxicMed]

I have yet to get my hands on a Raspberry Pi, though I rather would like to own one (possibly turning to sEbay to get a hold of one at an obvious markup..) But here is what I've been wondering if it would be possible to do. Believe it or not, I still use my old school original xbox as my media center. Works brilliant for what I use it for. I was thinking about taking a rPi and building it into the original xbox in a way that it would power on and off along with the xbox and use the rPi to manage my media on the xbox. Would it even be possible to pair them together in a way to avoid having to move files via FTP with that kind of setup. I wonder if anyone here would even know. Any Ideas on the subject I would love to hear.

[ghans]

FUSE (curlftps or sth. else ) is quite comfortable. Do you have a NAS
or are all files stored on the XBox HDD ?

ghans

[ToxicMed]

My Xbox is heavily modded. it has a 500gb HDD in it with a lot of Music, Movies, and Retro gaming goodness. I'm always either playing media or oldschool games on it otherwise I would consider just using Xbian as a stand alone Media center on the Rpi. I just thought maybe if it was possible to bridge connections between the two devices so they can talk on the Network it would allow for faster data sharing than what i have to do currently which is pair it to my laptop with a crossover cable and FTP all the files over. Very slow and time consuming. It would be nice to be able to plug a external HDD into the Rpi and have access to the files on the xbox all the while being a stand alone system all together.

[ghans]

I see no way how this could be made possible.I would go for a NAS or direct
connection between Pi and XBox (the Pi has an auto-sensing jack , no
crossover cable needed).


ghans

[ToxicMed]

Ah well that's a Bummer. Just all a matter of playing around with it and see what I can come up with. I officially have a 512mb B Raspberry Pi coming in the mail, Should arrive early next week ^^! also as I was leaving work I picked up a Class 10 16gb Lexar Memory card for it. Has there been any issues with the Rpi and Class 10 cards or should we be all good?

[southpaw]

had a similar idea myself as I too use an old xbox with xbmc and coinops, my plan was to intergrate a pi in the xbox housing just for playing the higher res movies as you prob know the xbox aint great with mkv. I planned to use the power cables going to the controller ports for power to the pi as these are more or less general usb standard but I was struggling with bringing the outputs on the pi to the back of the xbox case (hdmi, Ethernet , sd-card, usb) . then there was the issue of the 2 devices interfering with each other . in the end I scrapped the idea as it seemed too much hassle and now use the 2 devices independently of each other .
Originally hoped to intergrate it into the "slim clock xbox" for my daughters bedroom, but space is a bit tight it there
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[ToxicMed]

Ou, I like the Slim Xbox. Not to make this a xbox subject thread, but did you slim up the xbox yourself? is it a difficult mod? looks really nice! and yea the Xbox really isn't very good with Mkv files or Mp4 files and the like. I thought the Rpi would make the perfect add-on to the system. I may still fiddle around with the idea once mine arrives.

[southpaw]

Yes it's a pretty simple mod, depending how your box is modded as you need to flash a new bios as the box checks for a DVD drive on boot, head over to xbmc4xbox for info, there is a tutorial over there and a really helpful member called xman who has done loads of awesome mods