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Beaglebone Media Center

By : David Lewin
Book Image

Beaglebone Media Center

By: David Lewin

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
BeagleBone Media Center
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Ideas to Improve Your Server
Index

Configuring RSS feeds with Leed


Our server can handle videos, pictures, and music from any source and it would be cool to have another tool to retrieve news from some RSS providers. This can be done with Leed, a RSS project organized for servers. You can have a final result, as shown in the following screenshot:

This project has a "quick and easy" installation spirit, so you can give it a try without harness. Leed (for Light Feed) allows you to you access RSS feeds from any browser, so no RSS reader application is needed, and every user in your network can read them as well. You install it on the server and feeds are automatically updated.

Note

Well, the truth behind the scenes is that a cron task does this for you. You will be guided to set some synchronisation after the installation.

Creating the environment for Leed in three steps

We already have Apache, MySQL, and PHP installed, and we need a few other prerequisites to run Leed:

  1. Create a database for Leed

  2. Download the project code and set permissions...