<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Chris Robertson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris@teamrobertson.co.nz" target="_blank">chris@teamrobertson.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I'm still waiting for the ideal media center hardware to emerge.<br>
Something under $200 I can just connect to my TV and network and<br>
bam, frontend done. Or add external storage and tuners to make it<br>
a fully functional PVR. The RaspPi is so close in many ways; great<br>
size, hw decoding, HDMI-CEC etc, but not enough grunt for fluid<br>
xbmc UI, and I suspect recording several HD channels at once would<br>
choke over USB2.0.<br>
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Has anyone seen or heard of these for Mythtv frontend?<br>
Thinking here is an Android frontend?<br>
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There certainly seems to be a ton of android smart-tv like devices available recently. The Pivos Xios <<a href="http://www.pivosgroup.com/xios.html" target="_blank">http://www.pivosgroup.com/<u></u>xios.html</a>> is the most interesting I've seen so far - it even has a (beta) version of XBMC available as an app or native linux firmware. It's something to keep an eye on, but is still in development so not ready for rolling out to non-technical family members yet.</blockquote>
<div><br><br></div><div>Because Pivos has two XBMC devs employed there. But the XBMC setup runs linux not android, or so I believe.<br><br></div><div>They are ready for the big time, possibly one of the better ARM boxes for XBMC.<br>
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