[mythtv-users] Recommendations needed for new FE box

[Jeremy D Eiden]

I also agree on Flirc - I love that little device. I have all sorts of 
leftover remotes from who-knows-what that suddenly have new life.

Not to mention my wife gets to keep using her TiVO remote - which was 
important in my selling MythTV to her in the first place.


On 07/26/2018 03:17 PM, Scot Kreienkamp wrote:
> I third this... I use it with Kodi and Mythtv.  The one thing I 
> learned the hard way, make sure to allocate enough memory to 
> graphics.  It's adjustable on the Pi.  That was my biggest problem 
> that took me quite a while to figure out.  Also I would suggest 
> getting a Flirc or something for remote control... don't use 
> CEC/Anynet/whatever-the-vendor-names-it control over HDMI.  I had 
> nothing but problems with it.
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 11:59 AM, Jeremy D Eiden 
> <theonlyrealperson at gmail.com <mailto:theonlyrealperson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 07/26/2018 10:46 AM, George Poulson wrote:
>>     On 26 July 2018 at 16:07, Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:ashu.desai at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Is there something that folks here have - i am open to buying
>>         bare metal and building one up myself...
>>
>>
>>
>>     If you're open to it as a solution the Raspberry Pi 3 makes a
>>     pretty darn good (and very cheap!) frontend.
>>
>>     You'll find various articles both on the mythtv wiki and elsewhere.
>>
>>     George
>>
>>
>>
>     I second this.  LibreElec on a RaspPi 3 B+ has nearly flawless
>     playback.  Some menus are great, but others (like Recordings) I
>     find a little clunky.  Not terrible, just clunky.
>
>     And it just worked. Install, enable Myth's plugin and configure
>     the plugin to point to the backend - and it was good to go.
>
>     The playback looks nicer than my NUC's, I think. But really, it's
>     hard to tell.
>
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