[mythtv-users] Cheap frontend for christmas

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:59 PM, digid myth <digidmyth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The best deal I found is the ECS Liva, I just got done building one and it
> seems to be working well. New Egg has/had them on sale for 109.00 2 Gig ram
> and 32Gig storage is built in. I loaded up the latest Mythbuntu and have
> had to make a few tweaks here and there to get it to work 100%. I will
> publish my results when I get a few more days of use on it. All you have to
> add to it is a remote. I am using it with wired ethernet and I understand
> that there are issues with the wireless.
>
> The cheapest thing that I found so far. I ordered two more this morning
> and plan to upgrade every front end in the house with them.
>
> Dale
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Josu Lazkano <josu.lazkano at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am looking for a cheap fontend to buy to my father.
>>
>> He actually has a Nvidia ION based frontend in the living room and I
>> want to add other little frontend in the bedroom.
>>
>> The requirements:
>>
>>    - Power on/off the system from remote, preferably from a sapphire
>> remote/receiver. The TV has CEC support from HDMI.
>>    - HD content, most of the media are FTA 1080i recordingd, but he
>> use to watch some 1080p MKV movies.
>>    - Cheap device, I don't want to spend too much money with this
>> present. Maybe a NUC, Android, Nvidia ION device?
>>
>> I will appreciate any recommendations.
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Kind regards.
>>
>> --
>> Josu Lazkano
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This looks very good, and should work well. It very closely resembles the
Intel NUC DN2820FYKH and Zotac ZBOX nano CI320. If it had the built in IR
sensor, it would be perfect.

Tom
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