Convert your Old TV Sets/Old LEDs into SMART TVs (DIY Project )

We in India are Transforming, I Still Remember the days, When Selling Old Freeze, TV Was an Event and so does Buying New TV, However with Constant Technology Upgradation, Old Television Sets became Useless and are Dumped or Rather Sold at Peanuts Pricing, However There are few Options Available with Which We Can Convert Old TV into Smart TV and Use them for Various Needs Like Watching You Tube, Netflix or Skype,

Do It your Self Project to Convert Old TV to Smart TV,

Smart TV By Definition has Microprocessor and Operating System Which will Include Several Features Like Inbuilt Ability to Play Different Format of Audio and Video Connected thru Different Modes, Like USB, Connect to Network, and Provide Different Solution like Internet Channels of You Tube, CNET, IGN or Used For Skype, Internet Browsing, Playing Small Games, Wireless Media Streaming, Connection to Direct Media Server and Many Other Different use,

Smart TV Today Tries to Become your Complete 1 Source Media Center and Substitute Computer, But Few Years Back We were Leaving Life with Big Box of CRT TVs, Projection TVs, and Dumb Plasma Panels, Which have became obsolete with New Smart TVs,

Below is How you Can Make Your Old TV Smart TV With Cheap Accessories,

Hardware Requirement

• Raspberry Pi B+ or Raspberry Pi 2( Mini Computer ) ( Price Rs.3,000 Including Casing )
• 8 GB SD CARD, Class 10  ( Price Rs.500.00)
• Working Computer For Initial Set Up
• Wireless Network  with Internet Connection,
• Leoxsys USB Wifi Dongle
• Working Android or iOS Device As Remote,
• 3 Pole Audio to Suitable Cable Like RCA Cable Or HDMI Cable if TV Accepts HDMI, ( Rs.200.00 )

Raspberry Pi Foundation Provides Micro Computers For Promotion of Programming and Coding for Educational Purpose, However this cheap Devices have Many Professional uses, Including Making Network Access Storage With USB Storage, Making Home Cloud Server, Making a Full Scale Server, to Making Intelligent Coffee Machine, And for Robot control,

One of the Major Project is For Converting your Old TV to Smart TV, and Cost of this Entire thing is Less then 4000.00 Rs.

Raspberry Pi B+ With Case,  ( Image May Differ )

You Can order Raspberry Pi with Casing thru Element14 in India, Online, Don't Forget to order Casing Or You Can Make it From Card Board, You Should Order Leoxsys Nano USB Adapter From Amazon or Flipkart, for Connection to Network, Or you have to access your Lan Cable to Raspberry Pi,

You Would Need 8 or 16 GB Class 10 or Better Micro SD Card for Operating System, Once you have this Ready, You Can Install Win 32 Disk Image Manager on your Normal Windows PC, A Free Software, Linux and Mac OSx You Have Command Line Tools Available for this,

Download OpenElec Software from wiki.openelec.tv For Independent Operation

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Use Win 32 Disk Imager To Burn Openelec to Your SD Card, If you want More Server - Client Operation and Has Media Server As Describe in Previous Tech Blog, with Plex You Would Like to Use Rasplex operating System instead of OpenElec System.

Now You Have Your SD Card Ready with Operating System, You are Good to Go with System, You Can Power Raspberry pi with Any Mobile USB Charger It Uses 5V Power With Mini/Micro USB Connector,

Below is Instructions,

1. Install SD Card in Raspberry Pi,
2. Power Up Raspberry Pi, ( Before Powering Up, Please Insert USB Wireless Dongle or Lan Connection )
3. Let System Boot Up,  3 Mins for First Time,
4. Connect to TV Thru 3 Pole Cable to RCA Connection or HDMI, Switch Input to your Connection
5. Use USB Keyboard for Initial use or You Need to Use Terra Term for Windows or SSH Terminal in Mac/Linux
6. Give Username and Password in Log Screen, For Open Elec ( Root and OpenElec) and For Rasplex ( Raspberry and pI)
7. Network Should be Configured Automatically is DHCP is Enabled or Configure Network,
8. Install Desired Channles Like Netflix, Cnet, CBS, FX, You Tube thru Plug In Available in System
9. Install media to USB Port Given or Configure NAS or Server Configuration ( Advance User Experience Required )
10. Install Remote Application on your Cell Phone, For Rasplex  Plex Remote and For Openelec any XBMC Remote,
11. Finally You will have on your Hand Smart TV with Much More Flexible System, which Can be used even for Browsing and any other Use you Want,
12. You Can Install Multiple System and Use Same System with Boot loader to use Raspberry Pi as Full Fledge Computer, But Experience Would be Little Hampered and Slow,

This is No One DIY for Raspberry Pi, More will be Introduced soon, Raspberry Pi would be Ideal for your Kids and Tech Nerds For Different Projects,

Note Use New Raspberry Pi 2, Its 6 Time Faster then previous Models, 

Surat Diamond Bourse, - An Eye Wash

Surat is In News for Ground Breaking Ceremony of New Diamond Bourse, Everywhere you will find Posters and Banners, Land Being Allocated, Ministers Faces is thrown in On Every Corner and Now We Have Ground Breaking Ceremony, Everything Happening So Soon - So Fast, or is it Too Little and Too late, Diamond Industry is in Surat for More then 30 Years, and Trading is in Mumbai, from the date diamond markets have existed

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Lets Go Back in Some History, Surat Traditionally Was a Small City with Population less then 500K, And Land Area almost 1/10th of What it is Today, With Traditional industries of Textile and Jari, By 1990s Diamond Industry Flourished in Area Called Varacha Road, And People From Northern Part of Gujarat Migrated Here, and with that we saw Exceptional Growth in All 3 Industries, Textiles, Diamond and Jari,

Diamond Markets, Manufacturing and Trading is Traditionally Based Northern Surat, Its Highly Dense Community with large Factories and Exceptional Work Culture, Which has No Relation or Direct Connection with new Surat Diamond Bourse Development,

There are Several Facts which are required here to understand, Why Surat Diamond Bourse is rather an Initiative and Indirect Support for Builders, rather then providing support to Diamond Industries, and Contributing to Growth of Surat

Over the Period of Time Diamond and Other Industry in Surat has Grown to Become Giant, Then Came Hazira Industrial belt, and During Same period and During Late 1990s, Joint Families Converted to More Nuclear House hold, Which all of this Surat, Started Growing and Land Prices have started Increasing at Pace Never Scene Before,

Land Price for Dumas Road, Piplod in 2004 was 8500 Rs/ Sq Yard has Increased in 2015, to 1,50,000.00 Rs/Sq Yard, which 1765% Increase in 10 Years, So Technically Increase 176% Per Year. This Price Increase created Many Riches, During this time over 10 Years, Various Industries had Scene Various Life Cycles of Growth, Some time Down time etc, and With INC At Helm at Center was Hampering Growth,

People and Industries were looking for Safe Investment in Surat, and Only Option they Could find as Safe was Land, Before that they were rather investing in Crude Trading But After Fluctuation and Few Misgiving, It stopped, SO Industrialist, Diamond Merchants, Textiles Barons, Every One Started Investing in Land, and Started Construction of Building in partnership with Builders,

With Sudden Support from Politicians, and Easy Access of Funds From Bank, Project Started at Fast Pace, and residential and Commercial pricing also increased, With this Came Traders and Investors to Property market, Who were Not real user, and rather using Property as Commodity rather then investment, This Further Jacked Up the Pricing and today, We are sitting on Bomb Of Real Estate Like United States, Since Normal Buyer Can not Afford Home At this Pricing, repayment Periods For Loans Have increased from 10 to 30 Years, and Even Construction Cost has Gone Up to 750 Rs. A Sq Feet and Interior at rather 3000 Rs/Ft, for High End Residences,

All of Above Factor Made Property Unviable Business, and During 2013-2014 Diamond Market Started Facing Slack, So Once Cash Cow, Now Needed More Cash, But all of those Cash was Stuck Up in Properties, which Remain Constant and Inventories were unsold,

So Came an Idea of Diamond Bourse, If A Diamond Bourse is Developed On Government Land, All properties Around that and Near By area, Would have new Demand, Subject to Diamond Merchants are Ready to Migrate to Surat, and Those Ailing Diamond Industries Can Rather Sell their Investment in property and Get Their Share of Cash and Get Debts of From their Books, and Get Fresh Line of Credit at New Cheap Rates,

This all is Done At an Expense of Ex Exchequer and Tax Payer, Which i believe is Considerably Wrong, Government, politicians and Business Nexuses Are do pressurize Banks, to give Large Credit and Construction By far remains on of the Corny Business, and an Efficient tools to Invest Black Money,

Few Other Major Factors For Diamond Bourse Being An Eye wash is, Traditionally, Manufacturing is always Separated from Trading Market, and Diamond is Not a Commodity which carries a Huge Transportation Risk or Cost,  Also Surat Does not even have Full Fledged Airport and Cargo and Custom Complexes for Development on Diamond Bourse,

I think Every One will agree that Narendra Modi is a Visionary, and During his CM Tenure Diamond Bourse never Came in to Existence but as soon as CM is Changed Diamond Bourse Became Reality at an amazing Pace, and only to raise give new life line to Most Corny and Shady Construction Business and Property Investment or rather to protect interest of those whose Black Money is Invested in those Land parcel,

Let me know your views,

Tata Sky or Airtel or Local Cable - My Take

Digitization in India is Complete, For Years We had Dookh Darshan, and then With Revolution We Had Cable and Private Channels, Today Scenario Is Changed, Soon We will have Single Provider for all your Services, Like Internet, TV, Telephone and Net Security, Even Highly Efficient IPTV Can be Launched in India, If we can achieve Good Internet Speed,

Here i am Doing Primary Comparison Between Tata Sky, Airtel and Local Cable, I will Ignore Less Significant Big, Dish TV, and Videocon D2H. Southern Indians Can Consider Sun Direct instead of Airtel,

Tata Sky,

Tata Sky Offer Premium Direct 2 Home Service, in HD and SD, it is Quite Expensive Service Compared to its Counter Parts, Tata Sky Offers Various Advantages Over Others,  Listed Below,

• Hardware Quality: Quality of Set Top Box is Exceptional,
• Remote Control: Remote Both HD and SD Feels Right and Deliver Desired Result, HD + Set Top Box is Really and Upgrade
• Clarity of Channels is Excellent
• No Additional Unwanted TV Shopping is there
• Call Center is fast and Services are Accurate,
• Installation is Clean and Efficient,
• Multiple Set Top Box Option is Available Upto 8 Set Top Boxes
• Almost Low Down Time,
• Web Site is Good and Sufficient, and Even online Recharge is Pretty Fast,
• Live TV is Pretty interesting, and iOS Based Remote APP is Great
• Supports Harmony, and Samsung Universal Remote,
• Excellent TV Guide and Scheduling
• Immediate Recharge Reflection,
• New Exclusive Channels First Come on Tata Sky, Like Star Premium HD and HBO Define
• Best Pay per View

Disadvantages of Tata Sky:

• Not Most Cost Effective Solution,
• Channel Change take time and is irritating,
• You Can not attach USB for Recording
• Interface is Relatively Slow,
• Universal Remote is Configurable but confusing

Airtel DTH,

Airtel DTH is Prominant DTH Provider for HD and SD Services, and is Quite Popular, Airtel has Limited Advantages in Comparison with Tata Sky and Local Cable

Advantages:

• Mid Range Option,
• Good Service,
• Decent Hardware

Disadvantages:

• Very bad Web Site for recharge,
• Bad Remote Control
• No Apps For Cell Phone,
• Guide and Interface are Not Appealing,
• Recording and Scheduling is Not Easy
• Lot of Shopping Channels and Adverts,
• Support Lacks Professionalism
• Multi Tv Options are Limited,and May Reduce Quality
• Mediocre Team for Support,
• After Sales is Poor,
• Recharge Reflection take Long time, and Your TV May Be off, In case you Forgot to Keep it on during Recharge,
• Universal Remote Sucks on Airtel, Neither Samsung Nor Harmony Universal Remote is Any Good with Airtel
• Pay Per View Channels Are not Great

Local Cable

Local Cable is Transmitted Digitally thru Cable Line and is Generally Considered Cheapest Option, and has host of disadvantages Compared to Others, But also Carries some Advantages,

Advantages:

• Local City Channels Are Available
• Bill Collection is Done Manually  By people
• Service Depends on Person, so you may be able to get privileged Service,
• You Can Pay for One Connection and run two tv with two Set top Box, Depends on your Cable Guy,

Disadvantages:

• Worst reception,
• Not MPEG -4
• High Downtime,
• Cable Looming All Over your Terrace and Streets,
• Cheap hardware, and Bad Remote
• No pay Per view
• No Special Channels, Like Star Premium HD,
• Fixed Rate, Not Market Determined Cost,
• Multi TV is Worst, and With Each Addition, quality reduces,
• No Guarantee of perfect Visual Experince
• Less Number of HD Channels,
• Remote Feels Crap and Not Configurable with Samsung on Harmony,

These are Some Comparison points Which will help you Decide with Service to Opt for, however Please note that, if you are using Local Cable you are indirectly supporting Corruption, Gangwars etc, Since Local Cable Operators Collect Payment in Cash and Offers Multiple TV without any Additional Cost, Which is Actually a Theft, Also Local Cable looms over your terrace with wire, which is Hazardous for Birds,

In My Choice Tata Sky will remain Best Option if you are ready to pay little more,

United States - Abuse, Ignorance and Discrimination

United States is Country of Immigrants Barring Original Native Americans, All are Imports In United States, and that's the best thing that has happened to that Country, Mix Race, Mixed Culture created a Strong Country with Equal Opportunity and Rights as Basic Offering,

However things are fast changing now a days in United States, US Which was an Icon of Equality has now changed into abusive power house, which US its self was fighting, Golden Period Of Equality in US Started with Rise of Martin Luther King Jr, However In this few Years, United States law Enforcement and Judiciary has proved that Equality and Opportunity are not for all and rules apply differently based on Color, Clothes and Religion,

I have Been to United States Many Times, and have always Considered it as an Equal Opportunity Country, i strongly believed that if I needed to Shift From Surat and Mumbai Would not be an Option then I would Consider New York or Denver as a City to Live My Life, Both Offers Beautiful and Culture Rich Environment, Even Philadelphia Could be An Option,

But it was all till today, I had always Observed Discrimination but had never realized its penetration, Today i read a news about An Old Man of Gujarati Origin, Was Tackled By US Cops, Because He Could not Speak English, Now He Lays Paralyzed in Hospital in Alabama State, Fortunately on this instance FBI Arrested the Cops, Fearing Outrage, and Trouble Over Earlier Shootings, But it has made me Do Some Research and Show Outrageous Abuses Carried out By law Enforcement in Line of Discrimination to race and color,

1. George Fernandes Strip Search, US Home Land Security Tired to Strip Search George Fernandes Because of His Color, and Race and During this time he was India's Defense Minister, It Crated Huge Uproar but Indian Politicians Could Not Do Anything

2. Shahrukh Khan:  Attending Function at Yael Was Stopped Because of His Surname During Immigration

3. Devyani Khobragade: Indian Diplomat Stripped Search For Domestic Help Complaint,

4. Every Other Indian, Who is Looked with Suspicion entering United States, While Their White Colleagues Given Free Passage from Customs,

These Are few Examples of American Homeland Security, Now Lest Check local law Enforcement and Judiciary,

1. Ferguson Shooting, When A 17 Year Kid, Was Shot,

2.Cleveland Shooting

Not Only their Law Enforcement, Their Judiciary and Public Prosecution System is also biased toward Colored, For Insider Trading Case Rajat Gupta and Raj Ratnam Had to go to Jail and Rajat Gupta's Carrier hit a Dead end, in similar Cases Todd Newman and Anthony Chasson were Acquitted, Mathew  Maratoma another Indian was Convicted in Similar Case,

All of the above not only proves Abuse and Ignorance in United States, But is also Reflected in their Television Series, which Clearly describe Such Discrimination, Like Blue Bloods, and Last Man Standing, it has given rise to comedy shows like Black-ish, Its a Self Critical Humor to Society

People Like Preet Bharara, Who takes Pride in Display of Independence have been Biased State Attorneys, and have pressed More and Unnecessary Count to Indians and Other Asian nationalities, Which has been proven without doubt, and Still US Judiciary or Political system has not taken any views on that,

Barack Obama has Advised India on Secularism and Shown Concern on Indian Political Activism, But it is time United States Looks Back and Create Judiciary,Law Enforcement and Political Environment Independent of Race Discrimination and Color, India Rather has Splendid Record of Equality, with Muslim President, Woman Prime Minister and Christian party Chiefs, which is yet to be proven by United States, Obama is First Black President, No Woman had Become a president of United states,

United States Needs to Answer to the Old Gentleman Who had Been tackled  by Cops and those Kids who have been murdered in Cold Blood, that they are also equal participant in their society, then and then only US has Any Right to Interfere in other Countries Business,

World Is Watching,

Shayari of the Day

कभी किसी को मुकम्मल जहाँ नहीं मिलता
कहीं ज़मीं तो कहीं आसमां नहीं मिलता

जिसे भी देखिये वो अपने आप में गुम है
ज़ुबाँ मिली है मगर हमज़ुबाँ नहीं मिलता

बुझा सका है भला कौन वक्त के शोले
ये ऐसी आग है जिस में धुँआ नहीं मिलता

तेरे जहाँ में ऐसा नहीं के प्यार न हो
जहा उम्मीद हो इसकी वहा नहीं मिलता

गीतकार : निदा फाझली,
 गायक : भूपेंद्र, संगीतकार : खय्याम,
चित्रपट : आहिस्ता आहिस्ता

Khobo Bharine Ame Etlu Hasya

"ખોબો ભરીને અમે એટલું હસ્યાં

ખોબો ભરીને અમે એટલું હસ્યાં કે કૂવો ભરીને અમે રોઈ પડ્યાં.

ખટમીઠાં સપનાઓ ભૂરાં ભૂરાં કુંવારા સોળ વરસ તૂરાં તૂરાં અમે ધુમ્મસના દરિયામાં એવાં ડૂબ્યાં. કે હોડી-ખડક થઈ અમને નડ્યાં.

ક્યાં છે વીંટી અને કયાં છે રૂમાલ? ઝૂરવા કે જીવવાનો ક્યાં છે સવાલ?

કૂવો ભરીને અમે એટલું રડ્યાં કે ખોબો ભરીને અમે મોહી પડ્યાં.

Sarvajanik Education Society New Boys Hostel at 310 Million Rs.

સુરતની વર્ષોજૂની એવી સાર્વજનિક એજ્યુકેશન સોસાયટીમાં હજારો વિદ્યાર્થીઓને સારી સવલત મળી રહે એ હેતુથી નવા પ્રોજેક્ટો શરૂ કરવાના પ્રયાસો પણ હાથ ધરાઇ રહ્યા છે. જે અંતર્ગત હવે સોસાયટીના કેમ્પસમાં જ અધધધ ૩૧ કરોડ રૂપિયાના ખર્ચે અત્યાધુનિક સુવિધા સાથેનું બોય્ઝ હોસ્ટેલ બનશે. ૧૩ માળની હોસ્ટેલમાં વાઇફાઇ, સીસીસીટીવી, એસી રૂમ સહિતની સુવિધા અપાશે. વિદ્યાર્થીઓની સુવિધા ખાતર સોસાયટીના લાખેણા પ્રોજેક્ટનું મંગળવારે કથાકાર મોરારિબાપુના હસ્તે ભૂમિપૂજન કરાયું હતું.

૧૦૦ વર્ષ પૂરા કરનારી સાર્વજનિક એજ્યુકેશન સોસાયટીમાં હાલ એક બોય્ઝ અને બે ગર્લ્સ હોસ્ટેલ છે. સોસાયટી કેમ્પસમાં જ એમટીબી કોલેજના પાછળના ભાગે આવેલી બોય્ઝ હોસ્ટેલમાં હાલમાં ૩૭૦ વિદ્યાર્થીઓને રહેવાની સુવિધા મળી રહી છે. જ્યારે બે ગર્લ્સ હોસ્ટેલમાં ૭૦-૭૦ મળીને ૧૪૦ને આશરો અપાઇ છે. આ સિવાય કેટલીક વિદ્યાર્થિનીઓ માટે અલાયદી સુવિધા કરાઇ છે. જોકે, સોસાયટીને હોસ્ટેલને વર્ષો થઇ જવાની સાથે જ વિદ્યાર્થીઓના હિત, સુવિધાને ધ્યાનમાં લઇને નવી હાઇટેક હોસ્ટેલ બનાવવાનું નિર્ધારિત કરાયું છે. સોસાયટીના ચેરમેન કશ્યપ મહેતાએ જણાવ્યું હતું કે, જૂની બોય્ઝ હોસ્ટેલની બાજુમાં જ ૧૩ માળની કોલેજમાં ૭૫૦ વિદ્યાર્થીઓને રહેવાની સુવિધા હશે. તેમાં વાઇફાઇ, સિક્યોરિટી, સીસીટીવી સહિત પ્રથમ બે માળ એસી બનાવવાની વિચારણા પણ થઇ રહી છે. જ્યારે પોસ્ટ ગ્રેજ્યુએટ સહિતના સ્ટુડન્ટ માટે સિંગલ સિટરની વ્યવસ્થા હશે. તે માટે ટેન્ડરની સ્ક્રૂટીની ચાલી રહી છે. ત્રણ વર્ષમાં પ્રોજેક્ટ પૂરો થઇ જશે.