[mythtv-users] How to reduce the power consumption of your mythbox by a third

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 22:42:58 UTC 2007


On 14/03/07, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> Nick Morrott wrote:
> > On 14/03/07, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> >
> >> Switch themes.  No, really. ;)
> >>
> >> I just got a Kill-A-Watt power meter, and I was playing with it after
> >> connecting it to my desktop machine, which doubles as a remote
> >> frontend/slave backend for my Myth system.  Here are some interesting
> >> figures:
> >>
> >> Main  menu - G.A.N.T.           - 87 watts
> >> Main menu  - blue                  - 54 watts
> >> Playback, 480x480 MPEG2 - 62 watts
> >>
> >
> > Any chance you could repeat for MythCenter-wide? Could be most
> > interesting for a machine on 24/7.
> >
>
> Looks to be the same as "blue".  Blue and MythCenter-wide seem to both
> have static menus.  G.A.N.T. has a watermark that fades in and out.
> That must be the difference.

Msny thanks for going to the trouble - much appreciated.

Nick
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