Guides

Guides, DIY, and How-to’s
Welcome to the guides section of our blog. This catagory is reserved for a lot of the technical things of what we love doing throughout our day to day existence. Some of these deal with some DIY projects we’ve done while others is just our own experience with certain pieces of hardware. Feel free to browse around as there may be something of interest to you.
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As a kind note: Many of these guides are based around the personal experiences of those who run s-config.com and may not reflect the correct way of doing something. If you have any problems with what you are reading you can drop a comment in the article or contact us for any modifications or corrections.

Cyanogen Mod CM11 and the Ouya.

November 9, 2023August 24, 2015 by S-Config

Cyanogen mod the Ouya.

Why Cyanogen Mod (sometimes referred to at CM11) you ask? The future of Ouya and the news of the most recent acquisition of the company to Razer has made a lot of Ouya owners such as myself feel rather uneasy with the consoles business as a whole. Couple this with an aging OS to the point where some favorite applications such as Kodi no longer work under android 4.1 due to programming issues. Razer is now stating that they will keep the Ouya servers up for another year. But then what?

I guess they pull the plug and tell console owners such as myself to buy the next latest/greatest razer box. To which I will probably laugh and buy an Nvidia shield if I were to ever get an android box again. But that's not the point of this blog entry.

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I-Pac controller rewired – v2

May 16, 2022July 16, 2015 by S-Config

I-Pac controller in a new case with cleaner wiring.

When I first started this blog I created a posting about how I could build a better controller for Stepmania by using a device called an I-Pac. In the MAME community the I-Pac does what modern day mechanical keyboards do by assigning each key its own interrupt onto a micro-controller giving you the absolute fastest response between your joystick and your PC. The only way you could go any faster then this device is by bypassing the USB bus all together and wiring your controller via GPIO onto something like a Raspberry Pi.

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Wireless Antenna mod for the Ouya

January 2, 2022March 26, 2015 by S-Config

Ouya Wireless Adapter Modification title

Installing a Wireless Antenna mod on your Ouya Console!

The Ouya while it does have a Wireless-N chip the quality of reception has a lot to be desired for it's wireless antenna. Consisting of a tiny block on the motherboard which behaves like a 3dbi antenna that one would expect on a Cel-Phone; The overall reception of wireless traffic coming into your Ouya especially at a distance is problematic. Initially, I did this mod in an attempt to alleviate Bluetooth lag on my Ouya joysticks as the chip-set that Ouya used carries both the Internet and Bluetooth traffic over the same wireless antenna. While it didn't help with the Joystick reception. It did help considerably with wireless traffic.

Png Optimization

November 1, 2019February 8, 2015 by S-Config

PNG and JPEG Optimization Title for Blog entries

It's time for Png Optimization yo!

For PNG Optimization: PNG (or Portable Network Graphics) was a replacement to GIF and is one of the most widely used lossless graphic formats on the net. Whenever you are setting up a website that has a heavy amount of images going for it; You often have to rely on other formats then JPEG or .jpg because although the .jpg is good for most cases such as photos it is often a self-destructive file to have as every time you re-compress the quality of the .jpg gets worse and worse. Also known as lossy compression where the image is compromised to better suit the compression of the file.

Transmission on Pi.

November 1, 2019December 22, 2014 by S-Config

Setting up Transmission on Pi.

Transmission is a torrent P2P file sharing software which is open source and can be run on practically every type of platform environment on the face of the earth. Since torrents can take a long time to download depending on how many seeders there are (people with complete copies of said file) versus peers or leechers (people who are attempting to receive files) it makes sense to keep a device on that only takes a few watts of power versus a giant PC which just eats power throughout the night.

China Xbox 360 receiver Raspberry Pi – xboxdrv

April 20, 2022October 4, 2014 by S-Config

Xbox Receiver on the Raspberry Pi or Banana Pi with xboxdrv

Raspberry / Banana Pi with xboxdrv

I got you covered on this as well with the help of xboxdrv! Although a little late to the party the Rasbian image initially did not have the xboxdrv library like Ubuntu users were so used to. As a result, Raspberry Pi users had to go through the headaches of compiling it themselves or simply find an alternative such as a genetic joystick or Bluetooth based joystick control provided they have a Bluetooth style receiver.

Note: This blog entry is a child blog off of the chinese xbox 360 receiver entry. If you stumbled upon this page first and have no idea what the hardware is be sure and check out that blog by clicking here.

There is no drag and drop style method for any version of Linux, you'll have to be typing some commands to get it working.

MiniDLNA Server and Raspberry Pi

November 1, 2019October 3, 2014 by S-Config

DNLA NAS server with the help of MiniDLNA for your Raspberry Pi.

MiniDLNA is another one of those articles where I had to go bouncing around between various sites to truly get all of the details about how to setup and maintain MiniDLNA properly. For those who do not know what it is. DLNA stands for "Digital Network Living Alliance" and it's a protocol used in many consoles, smartTV's even phones as a standardized protocol that they can all communicate on (depending on video and encoder). The Raspberry Pi is perfect for such a project as it's low power and can put out an 'okay' level of bandwidth can can handle most 720p videos and even some 1080p videos that are encoded well. This is also great if you want to have a constant library of music and pictures that you would like to share with your entire LAN for anyone in your house to view or play.

Xbox 360 receiver install for Windows 7

June 8, 2023August 8, 2014 by S-Config

X-Box Receiver install for windows 7 - Title

Archived for the Xbox 360 receiver for those who are running older OS such as ourselves(at one point).

Note: If you came to this blog first and have a Windows 10 operating system please click here to read the original blog article which will give you fresh screenshots and video tutorials on how to install the Chinese receiver onto your Windows 10 device. For those who are running Windows 7 and earlier operating systems continue reading!

Archived – Xposed installer for Ouya v2.1.4

June 8, 2023July 4, 2014 by S-Config

This post is here to archive the old procedure of Xposed for Ouya 2.1.4

If you have stumbled onto this page because the Xposed framework is what you need to root your Ouya and this page is here only for historical reasons. Click here for the updated documentation on rooting your Ouya.

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Root the Ouya – Then add Google Play!

June 8, 2023May 22, 2014 by S-Config

Root the Ouya: A step-by-step tutorial with all of the data in one place. Initially, I thought this was covered very well and that my input was simply not necessary. However, the issue with the website and especially forums is as they get older they tend to get harder to read. Links break down and ... Read more