New Travel Entertainment

So, the past few years when we take long trips in the car, I've setup a small wireless network with attached storage so the boys could stream movies to their tablets.  Each year I did this, I changed how I did it.

One year I had an RPi serving up the content through a wireless router.  Another year I had a Linksys AC1200 with attached storage serving it up.  Both of those solutions required an inverter and a lot of space.

My new solution, thanks to a friend pointng out a router, is to use a HooToo TripMate Nano, attached storage and a USB power pack.  Testing shows that I can run this setup for about 20 hours before a recharge is needed.  And the recharge takes somewhere from 8-12 hours.  But still... it works great.  No more bulky router & inverter... sweet.

One cool thing using a router like this is that if the hotel has wired internet, I can bring my router in and make my own wireless network and not have to join the hotel wireless on each device.

Now if I could only afford a 1tb jump drive it would be even smaller :)

Stuff

So I had a good friend of mine fix my RPi SD slot (he has a good desoldering station) and it works great.

I added some LEDs to the Saucers in my RFM... I don't like the Green, RED is OK going to try Blue.  Also got a saucer for the SOL hole so that should be cool.

Not much else going on.  Just doing a bunch of coding @ werk, a little playing with some toys.  PC puked so I had to get a new one.  Not fun.

Other than that, things are good.