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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
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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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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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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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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-pi-
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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
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Made it on
http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/11/22/raspberry_pi-
piday-raspberrypi-47/
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and
http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/23/raspberry-
pi-hack-creates-smart-tv-from-a-not-so-bright-
set/
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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.
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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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