[mythtv-users] Cheap frontend for HD

[Kevin Johnson]

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Gordon McCrae <gordon.mccrae at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Personally I'd recommend the DroidBox T8, I have Acer Revo boxes with
> MythFrontend throughout the house (five of them), but as they are getting a
> little long in the tooth, and I already had to use my spare because the fan
> died on one of them, I started looking for alternatives.
>
> After playing with KODI on my Android tablet, and satisfying myself that
> it was a usable replacement for MythFrontend, I bought a T8, and I must say
> it's much better for media only situations than the REVO. the menus are
> more responsive, videos start playing immediately instead of a 2-3 second
> delay, scrolling through lists is much faster etc. All in all, I must say
> it's a fantastic little box, and only £99 here in the UK.  I bought mine
> with the air-mouse, which didn't turn out to be a good option for the WAF,
> as they struggle with the mouse mode, so I'd recommend existing users to
> stick with the  standard remote for now. I've configure KODI to use an MSQL
> database to store centralised video/music lists, and overall I find it to
> be very usable.
>
> My family are still struggling with the fact that it's "different" from
> the rest of the frontends, so I plan to just install KODI on the REVOs and
> get rid of MythFrontend entirely. The plan is to use T8s where all that is
> needed is media / web browsing / general android like interface, and to
> keep REVOs for the kids' desktops where they actually need to login to a
> Linux machine for LibreOffice, Firefox etc.
>
> Cheers
> Gordon
>
> That is a impressive machine.  I have yet to switch my frontends to xbmc
but have been considering doing so for some time.
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