<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 8:47 AM Doug Lytle <<a href="mailto:support@drdos.info">support@drdos.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This might be something to look into for a Myth Frontend.<br>
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<a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-ODROID-H2-Benchmarks" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-ODROID-H2-Benchmarks</a><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I received my H2 a couple of days ago. The first batch sold out in 24 hours and they expect to have another early next year. Intel has a shortage of the processors used so they have to wait. Odroid did not anticipate such an enthusiastic response, unfortunately.</div><div><br></div><div>The only real snag I ran into was that the screw to mount the M.2 drive was not included. Luckily for me, I am a "screw miser" and I just searched around for a small one that fit. I believe it is an M2 3mm screw but I would double check that. I tried measuring it by eye with a ruler. I think calipers are really in order here and I do not have a pair. Amazon has the screw if you're willing to shell out 5 bucks. The first few screws that I tried were not metric but I found one that mounted the heat sink over the M.2 slots on my main computer's motherboard that fit, albeit about 6mm long. I did note that ASUS failed to include screws for both of its M.2 drives as well! After that, I used the screw to compare with the rest. All in all, it only took a half hour. :( But it's done.</div><div><br></div><div>Seriously, though. What if I hadn't had the damn screw? You can't exactly buy one around here, with it being metric and the USA not using a proper standard. I would have driven all over the place to find a computer shop (good luck in this day and age of the Internet).<br></div><div><br></div><div>With the M.2 drive mounted, I just had to figure out how to put the acrylic case together. There weren't instructions but there are diagrams on their forums so that was mostly painless.</div><div><br></div><div>It powered up and I installed Arch Linux with a USB stick. I had to use the UEFI install. I might have gotten it to work with the MBR installation but since the USB stick was recognized as UEFI, I went with that. That's a first for me but the instructions on Arch's website were very clear. Those installing Ubuntu would have an easier time, I'm sure.</div><div><br></div><div>The only thing I changed in the BIOS was the time. I left everything else alone.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have not tried it as a mythtv frontend as that's not why I purchased the machine. I can tell you that the performance I've seen is very satisfactory. I'm not sure about video performance as I've only run a terminal on my monitor at this point. If there is any interest, I could try loading version 30 on it and trying it on my monitor. That's not a big deal. I'm not as picky as a lot of you videophiles so I may miss minor distortions.</div><div><br></div><div>The machine has a heat sink so it's silent. There is space for a 90? mm fan and I might do that down the road but it may be overkill. Still, additional cooling is always good. There are 5 LED status lights and 3 of them stay lit most of the time. I haven't figured out exactly which of them does what yet. The documentation is a little sparse but the staff at Odroid is very attentive to questions regarding their products.</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone have any questions? I'll try to answer them.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Jerry<br></div></div></div>