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PiBox: An Embedded Distribution for the Raspberry Pi. And more!

PiBox provides a build system based on Crosstool-NG, Buildroot/Busybox, the Linux kernel, Rasperry Pi firmware and installation tools to create a base system that can be installed to an SD card to boot a Raspberry Pi. The base system serves as a foundation on which opkg based systems can be installed.

PiBox Development System is the official name of the core build system. It provides the platform on which the following systems are based.

PiBox Media System is a consumer device based on PiBox with a goal of providing media playback including webcam video and video streaming. This is accomplished by adding custom opkg installs on the base PiBox Development Platform. The PiBox Media System can be used as a node on a network or as a wireless access point to serve movies to other PiBox Media Systems or PiBox Player Systems.

PiBox Kiosk is a photo frame solution supporting static images and videos that is cable of working on standard displays and the Raspberry Pi 7" touchscreen.

PiBox Auto-Kiosk is an automated video player useful with projectors that can run unattended.

PiBox PiSentry is a webcam manager with high-resolution network playback support.

PiBox PiStore is a USB storage manager.

Additional systems, such as home automation and Docker-based systems, are in development and expected with the next major release.

Status of all projects are available from the News section of the issue tracker

User Documentation

Item Release Status Description

Questions or Comments: Michael J. Hammel

What is PiBox? v2.0 Descriptions of the various components and releases associated with PiBox.
Installation Guide v2.0 Installation overview with links to downloads.
User Guides v2.0 High level user's guide for the PiBox Media System.
Touchscreen Layout v2.0 Touchscreen regions and their actions.
Screen Shots and Videos v2.0 Screenshots and videos are on the project web site.
Image Releases v2.0 Links to downloadable versions of PiBox, ready for installation to an SD card.

Developer Documentation

Item Status Description
Developer Overview Needs Updating Overview of the software environment for developers.
Message Flow in media systems Needs Updating Discussion on how messages pass between components of the media system software.
Software Developers Guide v1.1.0 Instruction on building the PiBox Development Platform for the Raspberry Pi, including links to required source repositories.
Issue Tracker Built on Redmine Tracks feature requests, bugs, todo items and all other issues for this project.
Forums, PiBox on IRC - irc://irc.efnet.org/pibox Available General discussions on PiBox

General Notes

Item Description
Research Notes on research related to Working with the Raspberry Pi
Prototypes The first prototypes.

Deprecated Documentation

These documents may or may not be up to date. They are not likely to be updated in the future.

Item Release of Last Update Description
Design v1.1 High level overview of the PiBox system.
PiBox Media System Architecture v1.1 Detailed specifications for the PiBox Media System.

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