The developer of Raspbmc, a custom version of Debian with XBMC for the Raspberry Pi, has announced a custom version for the Stealth Nighthawk F117A. This tv dongle can in a tv set and has the same ARM cpu as the Raspberry Pi.
The Stealth Nighthawk F117A is a project currently on Indiegogo. Via the crowdfunding platform hopes the Dutch company a to have enough money to collect a tv-dongle on the market on the basis of the BCM2835, a Broadcom soc with a speed of 700MHz. The same chip is also used in the Raspberry Pi, but the Stealth Nighthawk can directly into a hdmi input of a tv set. In addition, the dongle is equipped with wi-fi and a power supply.
According to the developers, will the Stealth Nighthawk F117A standard running on Raspbmc. This Debian version will allow the user to boot to a for the Raspberry Pi-optimized XBMC. To Raspbmc is still better on the hardware of the tv dongle to connect, the developer indicated that it is working with the company a to. The dongle must be if there is enough money is being collected around the 80 euro cost. This would be cheaper than the cost of a Raspberry Pi together with the additional necessary parts.
