[mythtv-users] Architecture Idea - Raspberry Pi, VM, XBMC

[Gordon McCrae]

That's us back from the Irn-Bru Carnival, but I'll be taking Selina out 
again in around an hour, she's off to see a friend in Johnstone and 
wanted to have a drink, so I'm driving.

Sounds like times might clash, when are you free tomorrow?

Cheers
Gordon

On 05/01/13 17:33, Fred Watt wrote:
> On 05/01/13 17:05, Roger Heflin wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Raymond Wagner 
>>> <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>>>> On 1/5/2013 09:37, Roger Heflin wrote:
>>>>> The baseline Atom board with a good power supply runs
>>>>> about 30-40W at idle
>>>>
>>>> Thats awful! My 3.1GHz Ivy Bridge with a middling power supply only 
>>>> runs
>>>> about 25W idle.
>> And mine is also a server motherboard with 2 pciex4 (with cards in
>> use) and a pci slot in use, and
>> 4gb of ram, and with a number of USB cameras and multiple powered usb
>> extensions for
>> those usb cams.
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> My server is also a 3 year old atom (due to be replaced this year) 
> with 2 x 2Tb + 1 x 1Tb + SSD.  Last time I checked few years ago, 
> idles around 25Watts.  I expect to get significantly lower with this 
> years haswell tech.  All my pcs (3 others) boot from iscsi so are 
> physically diskless, apart from one which is a frontend/slave has a 
> 1Tb recordings cache (which can get replicated to the master as when I 
> wish it to, so does not need to be on).  Again frontends are intel 
> based first gen clarkdale (due for replacement) but low powered as I 
> dont need an additional GPU or physical disks.  I use a always on 
> alix/voyage box for always on services - dns, email, tftpboot, ipxe, 
> mpd (with dac), karaf, etc this is just 5watts.
>
> My point is with - todays tech - I would probably still go intel and 
> just replace the alix with an arm device.   Though I am interested in 
> Samsungs arndale, and the cotton candy.  Candy could just be left 
> plugged into an amp, to make a always available front end - quite neat.
>
> With repect to architecture (and the O/S & device upgrade cycle) I 
> would stick to intel.  Maybe in a years time I might consider 
> replacing my main raid/iscsi/web/mythbackend server with an arm solution.
>
> Don't get hung up on the raspberry - it's really underpowered and will 
> be very very time consuming now and in the future.   There will be 
> better arm tech this year for Myth I am sure.
>
>
>
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