[mythtv-users] Cheap frontend for HD

[Peter Bennett (cats22)]

On 05/19/2015 11:27 AM, Kevin Johnson wrote:
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> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Gordon McCrae
> <gordon.mccrae at gmail.com <mailto:gordon.mccrae at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     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.
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>     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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I use Kodi with mythtv plugin on Raspberry pi 2 on two frontends and
they perform perfectly, including High Definition. It is difficult to
beat the price on Raspberry pi 2 (currently $29.99 at micro center).
Raspberry pi 2 being a linux machine it is far easier for me to
customize things like menus, network connections for videos, etc.

Peter
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