<br><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm interested in greatly lowering the power consumption of my recording device. I was using MythTV for a while, and then a kernel update borked it for quite a while and I wanted Netflix access, so I ended up going with Windows 7 MCE. I'd like to go back to a Linux solution though, but I really want it to be quiet and very low power.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I was thinking of combining the Raspberry Pi as a frontend with a router with HD attached or low-power NAS running Linux. I have an HD HomeRun as the recording device--the older 2 tuner model. I record only HD and would like to have room for up to 3 HD OTA broadcasts to record at once. Currently one tuner has ATSC signal, the other connected to cable for QAM.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any current recommendations? I did find this: <a href="http://seagrief.co.uk/2009/01/mythtv-backend-on-a-kurobox-nas/">http://seagrief.co.uk/2009/01/mythtv-backend-on-a-kurobox-nas/</a> but it's a bit old and talks about SD recordings only. Is it possible to run MythTV on any similarly low-powered, self-contained devices nowadays, with the horsepower and bandwidth to do at least 2, maybe 3 HD streams? The Pi itself seems a bit under-powered to record 2 streams and play them back.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't do anything too complicated with recording rules, and I'd be willing to live without commercial skipping (I have for about a year now). Presumably CPU usage would be minimal--just whatever is needed for the network interface, as it's not encoding anything.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I was thinking around $100 ceiling, excluding HD cost.</div><div><br></div><div>Quinten</div>