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Hi all,

I see the DreamPi 3 has a standard headphone audio jack, what exactly is this useful for?

Also, with the USB ports on the box, is it possible to plug a wireless phone charger into it or anything by else that takes USB for power?

Thanks

You mean raspberry pi? Raspberry pis are a line of personal, single board computers basically. Dreampi is a program made to run on a raspberry pi. Like many computers, it has several usb ports, depending on what model of raspberry pi you have.

hawkzer0 wrote:You mean raspberry pi? Raspberry pis are a line of personal, single board computers basically. Dreampi is a program made to run on a raspberry pi. Like many computers, it has several usb ports, depending on what model of raspberry pi you have.

Raspberry Pi 3

DreamState wrote:Hi all,

I see the DreamPi 3 has a standard headphone audio jack, what exactly is this useful for?

Also, with the USB ports on the box, is it possible to plug a wireless phone charger into it or anything by else that takes USB for power?

Thanks

hawkzer0 wrote:You mean raspberry pi? Raspberry pis are a line of personal, single board computers basically. Dreampi is a program made to run on a raspberry pi. Like many computers, it has several usb ports, depending on what model of raspberry pi you have.

As he said. The Raspberry Pi first released in 2012, and has seen several iterations since then. We are now on the Pi 4, Pi 400, and Compute Module 4, but DreamPi itself is nothing much more than a Python script which runs at the boot time of the Raspberry Pi's OS, Raspbian in this case.

Technically, nothing is stopping you from obtaining the line-voltage-modded USB modem and using this script on your PC to connect the Dreamcast to the internet. However, its low cost and power draw makes the Raspberry Pi a great middle-man device to act as an adapter for the Dreamcast's otherwise useless dial-up connectivity in the modern day.

If you're curious, the Raspberry Pi makes for a great hobbyist gadget to make all sorts of things, from smart assistants, to network-attached storage, or to just be a normal computer. The headphone jack means you can absolutely play audio back through the Pi and run it to headphones, or an external speaker set, for Spotify or web radio.

Its use with DreamPi? Nothing. It's just one of several superfluous ports when it comes to getting your Dreamcast online. Could we maybe use it? Sure, but we have to find a way to use it, as well as a point to adding that feature when, again, DreamPi is just supposed to help get you online.

Maybe one day the DreamPi will host a shoutcast server you could listen over 3.5mm, HDMI, or with DP3

deluxux wrote:Maybe one day the DreamPi will host a shoutcast server you could listen over 3.5mm, HDMI, or with DP3

I've considered at the least, since we have WRP, are we just missing ALSA or PulseAudio to get any audio from Chromium? That's at least how it was using Browservice.

I do also wonder what options we have to do that. Have we seen all the features of the web browsers yet? No one discusses WebTV for Dreamcast. That's more a glorified intranet and proxy than anything to actually do with TV or streaming content, but it just makes me wonder.

ALSA should be included, just install mocp if you want a nice console music player

About WebTV Its here, http://turdinc.kicks-ass.net/Msntv/index.html

deluxux wrote:ALSA should be included, just install mocp if you want a nice console music player

About WebTV Its here, http://turdinc.kicks-ass.net/Msntv/index.html

Well aware of MattMaggot's website, not a good source for WebTV anythings with his practices, not to mention he's fairly ignorant of the Dreamcast build of WebTV. He hacked it together to run, but without most of the service functioning, and a pain without translations at that, not worth even acknowledging his page.