[mythtv-users] Frontend Upgrade

David Frascone dave at frascone.com
Sun Jun 17 01:16:48 UTC 2007


On 6/16/07, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
> David Frascone wrote:
> >
> > Ok -- it's about time for me to upgrade my diskless frontend, so I need
> > some help on some items:
> >
> > 1) I run diskless, and prefer as little noise as possible.  I know that
> > AMD makes a low power CPU that can be passivly cooled, but I've had
> > trouble finding one from any of the normal search engines.  (It's hard
> > to put 15watts in the search).  So -- does anyone have a link for a CPU
> > / MB combo that can be passivly cooled?  Built in video would also be
> > nice -- as long as the whole combo can keep up with HD video playback.
> > So -- does anyone have any newegg or other online vendor links?
>
> While not fanless an AMD Athlon 64 Lima with an NVIDIA 6150 based
> motherboard makes very little noise.


Cool -- I'll start looking for that -- does that video output dvi?  My LDC
accepts VGA, but at a lower resolution.

> 2) Lirc is a constant cause of issues for me.  It just often fails, and
> > my wife is not technologically savy enough to ssh in and kill
> > mythfrontend.  So -- she usually resorts to pushing reset.  While this
> > is fine on a diskless box -- it is unnecessary downtime.  So -- what I
> > would like is some input on cases that have enough controls to navigate
> > back and kill mythfrontend.  I guess a single "things are messed up"
> > button would be ok -- but ideally it would be a set of arrows and a
> > select.  (And, maybe even an escape).  Does this exist?  (of course, the
> > buttons need to be some kind of HID or something -- an IR transmitter
> > wouldn't do so well, if lircd was hosed.
>
> Why not remap the power button such that it restarts the mythfrontend?


I've already done that -- but -- some cases have really cool frontend
buttons -- I was hoping someone had used one, and had some insight /
recommendations.

-Dave


-- 
David Frascone

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