<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488894784414_40642"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488894784414_40649" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488894784414_40648"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488894784414_40647"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488894784414_40646"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488894784414_40651"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Terry Barnaby <terry@beam.ltd.uk><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> mythtv-users@mythtv.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, March 6, 2017 12:33 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [mythtv-users] Low Power System<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488894784414_40709" dir="ltr"><br>On 06/03/17 06:44, Kirk wrote:<br clear="none">> I've just updated one of my MythTv frontends using an ASRock J3710-ITX<br clear="none">>> mini-itx board. This has an Intel Quad-Core Pentium Processor J3710built<br clear="none">>> onto the board and has a power usage of < 6 Watts. It has optical audio<br clear="none">>> out for surround sound amps etc. There is a Celeron version which is<br clear="none">>> slightly cheaper. Teamed with a cheap SSD SATA disk or USB stick to boot<br clear="none">>> from it work well with SD and HD. The video is hardware decoded in the<br clear="none">>> CPU's graphics chip. Using a Fedora 25 installation with the VAAPI<br clear="none">>> drivers uses about 15% of the CPU's watching full HD and is quick with<br clear="none">>> the MythTv menu's etc. Seems to work well so far.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> That's a decent looking board. Couple of questions; are you running <br clear="none">> combined front/backend system? How much RAM are you running? Are you <br clear="none">> using a standard ATX power supply?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Thanks,<br clear="none">> _______________________________________________ <br clear="none"><br><div class="yqt9382393377" id="yqtfd96247" dir="ltr"><br clear="none">I have multiple Pi3 as frontends (replaced my diskless ATOM devices) and have the mpeg2 license on all. All of my recordings are HD and have no issues. I have had issues using the wifi in it if the signal is not strong enough (ie right next to the AP)</div><div class="yqt9382393377" id="yqtfd96247" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="yqt9382393377" id="yqtfd96247" dir="ltr">My biggest complaint about the Pi3 is there is no power button. I have these USB switched power cords that work ok. </div><br>commskip flagging would probable be the biggest issue (IMO) for the Pi3 as a backend, but I dont have any configured. </div><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488894784414_40709" dir="ltr">Mike</div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>