A short blog post about setting up your Raspberry PI and openElec. Nothing difficult just some basic instructions to get the PI up and running.

First download the OpenELEC Raspbian image here. Then place your SD card in your computer; unmount it with (determine the name of the SD card with the command diskutil list )

Use the raw version of the disk to speed up writing. So instead of using /dev/diskN use /dev/rdiskN

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/<disk>

Then unzip the zip file you have just downloaded and write the included img file to the SD card with the command:

sudo dd bs=1m if=path_of_your_image.img of=/dev/diskn

This takes a long while to complete. On Mac OS X you can type Ctrl+T in the terminal window where you executed the dd command to check progress.

After the image is written to the SD card place it in your PI and go ahead and fire up your Raspberry PI.