<div dir="ltr">Maybe I should bite the bullet and do this properly.<div>I will give you a call Nick to have a beer and check out your system.</div><div>A backend in the garage and multiple frontends might be the way to go.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Nick Rout <<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Robert Fisher <<a href="mailto:robert@fisher.net.nz">robert@fisher.net.nz</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I have lurked here for ages but I have to admit that WAF has been pretty<br>
>> good with the TiVo she bought a few years back so I have not used MythTV for<br>
>> quite a while.<br>
>><br>
>> Now that her TiVo has died we have to decide on an alternative which will<br>
>> keep the WAF up.<br>
>><br>
>> Has anyone here recently built or priced a MythTV setup with the following:-<br>
>><br>
>> (I have no problem building it and following advice and instructions)<br>
>><br>
>> Combined Frontend/Backend to sit under a TV<br>
>> Reasonably small form factor<br>
>> At least two tuners (DVB-T) (Should I use HDHomerun?)<br>
>> Decent storage<br>
>> Fairly quiet<br>
>> Wireless (I have a usb wireless dongle)<br>
>> Remote (wireless keyboard and mouse is acceptable if recommended)<br>
><br>
><br>
> If buying new and I wanted a combined FE/BE I would get:<br>
><br>
> 1. HP microserver<br>
> 2. Fanless nvidia GT610<br>
> 3. An ssd for the OS<br>
> 4. A 3TB hard drive for recordings and media<br>
> 5. HDHR from Hadley<br>
> 6. This remote <a href="http://rtr.ca/sapphire_remote/" target="_blank">http://rtr.ca/sapphire_remote/</a><br>
><br>
> If you would like to look at a running system (myth 0.27 with two<br>
> hdhrs and a number of frontends) you are always welcome at my place<br>
> Robert. Bring beer. If you want to see a microserver, we have one at<br>
> the office. It may be too big for under your TV (from what i recall of<br>
> the room) but it would be my choice for quietness and disk capacity.<br>
<br>
PS I would then install mythbuntu 12.04, upgrade myth to 0.27 and if<br>
you have a lot of stored/ripped/downloaded media I would install XBMC<br>
because I much prefer it to mythvideo for everything other than<br>
recorded TV. Again, demos available for beer.<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Robert Fisher<br>
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