<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Mike Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk" target="_blank">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 01/01/15 04:07, Dave MythTV wrote:<br>
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Hey everyone.<br>
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There are several (three?) threads going now about using the ECS LIVA as a<br>
MythTV frontend... but I'm going to take it a different direction. :-)<br>
I'm here to say that the LIVA also works quite well as a *BACKEND*, and<br>
amazingly - as a backend / frontend combo as well !!<br>
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I'm running Gentoo, so I've been tacking my findings on to SiliconFiend's<br>
ECS LIVA How-To thread on the Gentoo forums as I go along:<br>
<a href="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7675300.html" target="_blank">http://forums.gentoo.org/<u></u>viewtopic-p-7675300.html</a><br>
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Short list of my system hardware configuration:<br>
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ECS LIVA (BAT-MINI v1.0)<br>
$109 model with 32GB eMMC / 2GB RAM (NO reason to spend more on the 64GB<br>
models)<br>
3x older USB ATSC digital tuners with multirec enabled<br>
1.5 TB USB 3.0 2.5" portable (bus powered) hard drive<br>
USB MCE-style IR receiver<br>
USB RF wireless keyboard/trackpad combo<br>
WiFi on the LIVA (no hardwired ethernet)<br>
Audio via the analog output<br>
1080P display connected via HDMI<br>
USB slim DVD drive<br>
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That seems like a /lot/ of USB peripherals. I understood that box to only have two USB ports. How are you connecting your bits? Is there any likely contention on the USB bus?<br>
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Supplementary question: Is the eMMC card just used for booting, or is it used by the OS with r/w access? How is that likely to affect the wear rates? As a read-only boot partition I could understand, but r/w seems to be asking for trouble.<span class=""><font color="#888888"></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'll tack on my latest to this thread. My HDMI-to-Composite converter died (or maybe it's the power supply; either way it's dead) so I swapped out the old TV for an old monitor and a pair of speakers. Unfortunately it seems the analog (and HDMI?) audio output levels are extremely low, so I added an alsa pre-amp via the softvol plugin. Found a good guide here: <a href="http://blog.tpa.me.uk/2013/10/23/alsa-pre-amp-volume-boost-the-simple-explanation/">http://blog.tpa.me.uk/2013/10/23/alsa-pre-amp-volume-boost-the-simple-explanation/ <br></a><br>Note that in order for the pre-amp to show up in alsamixer you have to actually play a sound (I used aplay <some wav file.wav>) Then you can open alsamixer and adjust the pre-amp level. I think Mythfrontend needs to be restarted to pick up the new configuration, and you'll probably need to change your audio device from 'ALSA:default:card=PCH' to just read 'ALSA:default' (mine threw an error about invalid device until I deleted the card= stuff).<br><br></div><div>Karl<br></div></div></div></div>