[mythtv-users] Linux wall wart pulls 5 watts - could make a great master backend

[raphy]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Christopher Meredith
<chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday 24 February 2009 14:00:02 jarpublic at gmail.com wrote:
>> > Marvell has released $100 dev kits of this new device. It is a small
>> > wall wart that claims to run on 5 Watts. It has 512MB each of RAM and
>> > Flash, and a 1.2GHz CPU, and gigabit ethernet, and usb 2.0. The
>> > software and hardware is/will all be completely open source/spec. They
>> > say the have ported a couple of the major Linux distributions already.
>> > I was thinking this would be a nice master backend. I don't record
>> > that much tv, and it would be nice to shutdown or S3 suspend my other
>> > machines and then the only thing drawing power most of the day would
>> > be this little thing.
>>
>> As a master B/E it would need storage. Were you thinking of some sort of
>> network-based storage (which would also consume power), or using
>> USB-attached
>> drives?
>>
>> It's certainly an interesting concept. If it's an ARM processor a lot of
>> the
>> development for the NSLU2 might be useful.
>>
>> Faster and more RAM than an NSLU2, and in the same price range.
>>
>> Hmmm...
>>
> And how am I going to use a tuner with that thing?
>
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It could work with USB based tuners and HDHR. Might make an ugly mess
of cable in addition to the wart in the USB case, though.