[mythtvnz] recommendations for front end...

[Kenneth Dixon]

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.
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