Raspberry Pi Inside Smart LED TV

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Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV
News: We made it on Hackaday,Adafruit and Engadget http://hackaday.com/2013/11/20/raspberry-pi-smart-tv/ http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/11/22/raspberry_pipiday-raspberrypi-47/ http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/23/raspberry-pi-hackcreates-smart-tv-from-a-not-so-bright-set/

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Author (Read 55833 times) Carnivore

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Topic: Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

on: November 17, 2013, 01:31:41 AM
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I wanted a cheap way of making my LED TV a smart TV. So I stuck a Raspberry Pi running Raspbmc into it! This mod consists of sticking a Raspberry Pi inside a Smart LED TV to give it added functions. I am using the OS Raspbmc on a model B RPi. Revision 1: Posts 1-3 are of the first design that I made. Posts 4 and up are of Revision 2 which has an included usb-uirt mount with more of a home automation approach. The TV I am using is a 40 inch Hisense Smart LED TV. This is the inside of it
http://droidbuild.com/completed-projects/raspberry-pi-inside-smart-led-tv/
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The underside of the logic board
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I will be taping into one of the 2 USB ports. It outputs 5v 500 mA which is enough to power the RPi and some low power USB peripherals
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Soldered some wire and glued it down
Put some kapton tape (thanks to mp4dog)
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Test powering it
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Reply #1 on: November 17, 2013, 01:38:01 AM
The original speakers weren't that great. I used a home theater speaker setup so I decided to remove one of the onboard speakers and replace it with a port output from the RPi
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So I cut out the speaker port
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And I 3d printed my own face plate for the RPi using Solidworks 2013 and my Up! plus 2 3d printer
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Here's what it looks like on the RPi
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Good fit!
Finishing some wiring
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What it looks like inside
Another view of it all screwed in
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I wired a female RCA jack to the 3.5 mm audio jack of the RPi so I could attach my home theater speaker setup
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Powers up fine
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RPi indicator LED lights shine thru the abs plastic
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Success!
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Reply #4 on: November 17, 2013, 02:31:04 PM
Revision 2: In Revision 1, I had the power wired to the usb port of the TV. This is bad for the RPi as when I turn off the TV, the RPi turns off also improperly which can corrupt the data on my sd card. I also wanted to use my RPi as a home automation server using my x10 transceiver. I took my multimeter and probed the logic board for a constant 5v which I found two.
I desoldered the usb ports to wire in a usb-uirt and usb x10 module
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I cut a hole into the case of the usb-uirt
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Then I superglued the usb-uirt case to a custom 3 printed faceplate
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I then glued the RPi to the faceplate
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I then glued everything to the back case of the LED TV
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The usb-uirt and usb x10 module soldered and glued
Closeup of the solder job
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I 3d printed a cover for the hdmi cable
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Everything together
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dogmin
I am the one who knocks Administrator DB Recruit

dude that is sick. are using a the xbmc android remote to connect to it and can you install the plugins that way
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It has a usb-uirt so you can control it with any ir remote. But I use my android remote.
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Got on hackaday http://hackaday.com/2013/11/20/raspberry-pismart-tv/

dogmin

nice build cant wait till we do the ouya build I got some ideas
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Great work Carnivore. You have a very special talent so keep it going. Looking forward to seeing more of your work soon.
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stay tuned we got more builds coming

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If anyone is interested in the code I'm using for the x10 and uirt Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk 2
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Made it on http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/11/22/raspberry_pipiday-raspberrypi-47/
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and http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/23/raspberrypi-hack-creates-smart-tv-from-a-not-so-brightset/
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I just found out my TV has HDMI-CEC. I will be removing the usb-uirt and replacing it with a usb hub which I will 3d print a faceplate in the back.
Carnivore

Revision 3: Thanks to the people at Engadget, I found out my TV and RPi has hdmi-cec. This means I can get rid of my usb-uirt and replace it with a usb hub.
I cut a hole for the usb hub
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I desoldered the usb-uirt and soldered the 4 wires for the usb hub
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I 3d printed an enclosure for the hub
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Gluing the insides
Overall shot
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New LAN faceplate with the usb-uirt mount removed
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News: We made it on Hackaday,Adafruit and Engadget http://hackaday.com/2013/11/20/raspberry-pi-smart-tv/ http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/11/22/raspberry_pipiday-raspberrypi-47/ http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/23/raspberry-pi-hackcreates-smart-tv-from-a-not-so-bright-set/

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Author (Read 55833 times) Carnivore

Topic: Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

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Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

The underside of the logic board

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Soldered some wire and glued it down

Put some kapton tape (thanks to mp4dog)

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Last Edit: November 23, 2013, 09:54:02 PM by dogmin Logged

Re: Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

So I cut out the speaker port

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Here's what it looks like on the RPi

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Finishing some wiring

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Re: Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

What it looks like inside

Posts: 30 6744 C redits View Inventory Send C redits/Gift

Another view of it all screwed in

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Re: Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

RPi indicator LED lights shine thru the abs plastic

Posts: 30 6744 C redits View Inventory Send C redits/Gift

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Re: Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Posts: 30 6744 C redits View Inventory Send C redits/Gift

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

I cut a hole into the case of the usb-uirt

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Then I superglued the usb-uirt case to a custom 3 printed faceplate

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

I then glued the RPi to the faceplate

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

I then glued everything to the back case of the LED TV

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

The usb-uirt and usb x10 module soldered and glued

Closeup of the solder job

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

I 3d printed a cover for the hdmi cable

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV

Raspberry Pi inside Smart LED TV