[mythtvnz] recommendations for front end...

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Steve Holdoway <steve at greengecko.co.nz> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 07:53 +1300, Kenneth Dixon wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 7 January 2015 at 18:03, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>         On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Kenneth Dixon
>>         <kenneth.b.dixon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > On 7 January 2015 at 12:21, worik <worik.stanton at gmail.com>
>>         wrote:
>>         >>
>>         >> On 02/01/15 11:22, Jason Taylor wrote:
>>         >> > For a front end only a raspberrypi is good, can use the
>>         tv remote and
>>         >> > uses
>>         >> > very little power, If you want to stream content (netflix
>>         tvnz ondemand
>>         >> > etc) then an intel NUC box is good
>>         >>
>>         >> Interesting.  I have both.
>>         >>
>>         >> I could not get Raspberry PI working with Myth.  Is there
>>         instructions
>>         >> some place?
>>         >>
>>         >> My NUC is an absolute piece of shit!  I have a *lot* of ram
>>         and 30GB of
>>         >> SSD and it runs like a steamroller in 6 inches of mud.  A
>>         waste of money
>>         >> it was.  Does work as a front end but for what it is it is
>>         way way over
>>         >> priced.
>>         >>
>>         >> What about a Beaglebone?
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > There are a lot of android devices out which will work as a
>>         MythTV frontend
>>         > if combined with Kodi (XBMC) and the the cmyth PVR plugin:
>>         > http://www.dx.com/s/google+tv
>>         > I haven't tried it with one of these stand alone boxes, but
>>         works fine with
>>         > a tablet + HDMI out.
>>         >
>>         > You also get the native Netflix app.
>>         >
>>
>>
>>         Bad choice for a country where we have 25/50Hz TV broadcasts.
>>         Android
>>         does not do frame rate switching, rendering it awful for most
>>         PAL
>>         usage.
>>
>> Ah I see. Have to admit I haven't noticed the issue, but the android
>> tablet is not my main front end.
>> There was talk of Android 5.0 solving the issue, but it doesn't look
>> like it has. Maybe a future version.
>> Still pretty handy if you already own a tablet.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ken.
>>
>
> Would a quad core ( thread? ) zotac @ 1.6GHz atom work well? It has built in Nvidia ION graphics, and HDMI out...
>

That should work perfectly, although ION2 is better.

Depends on price too.