Retro media centre - part 2
After some fitting the case now contains a small amplifier, a 5V power supply and a HDD to store some media.
Because the Pi doesn't have enough power on the USB ports to power a decent harddisk I decided to power the HDD directly from from the power supply by cutting the USB cable, leading the power leads to the supply and only connect the datalines with the Pi.
I reused the original (more than 50 years old) speaker with the amplifier which gives suprisingly good sound. The speaker will be used when the connected TV is off and the radio plays some web streams or when a source is connected to the line-in i made on the back.
The software:
OSMC open source media centre software based on debian and kodi (https://osmc.tv)
BTSync. The Pi is outside my network (outside the country as matter of fact) and to sync media files like movies and series episodes with my NAS Bittorrent Sync (https://www.getsync.com) is used.
Some scripting in Python to recreate the fuctionality of the old station dial (will be covered in part 3)