<div dir="ltr">Thanks to all for the suggestions - lots to think and I'll probably go for the NM100 motherboard. I hadn't spotted that range of ASRock boards and they seem like a good replacement for my current Atom.<div><br></div><div>I'm still tempted to play with a Pi or Firestick as a frontend but I'll do that for fun without the stress of needing to get it into 'production'.</div><div><br></div><div>It's great that there's so much activity and good advice on this list.</div><div><br></div><div>D</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 at 09:05, jam <<a href="mailto:jam@tigger.ws">jam@tigger.ws</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">On Friday, March 8, 2024 6:16:32 PM AWST James Abernathy wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 3:59 AM David Watkins <<a href="mailto:watkinshome@gmail.com" target="_blank">watkinshome@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > For the last 10 years or so my MythTV setup has been a combined back/frontend running on an Intel Atom motherboard with NVidia graphics. Inputs are a pair of external USB DVBt sticks, storage is a couple of SATA drives and the whole lot sits inside an Antec Fusion multimedia case. The case is mostly a pig-ugly monstrosity but it has a pretty front panel with a LCD display and it looks good in my TV cabinet where you can't see the rest of it.<br>
> ><br>
> > The point of this post is that I think the Atom motherboard is getting long in the tooth now and increasingly vulnerable to sudden death syndrome; I'm also wary that at some point a software upgrade could fail because some part of the hardware is not longer supported - so I'm looking for a replacement.<br>
> ><br>
> > Ideally I'd like something exactly the same but newer. that is:<br>
> ><br>
> > Combined Frontend/Backend.<br>
> > Silent (in the huge Antec case the Atom is easy to cool with a big slow turning FAN).<br>
> > Low Power, which I think means hardware video acceleration.<br>
> > Fits inside the Antec case.<br>
> ><br>
> > Is there such a board?<br>
> ><br>
> > I've been looking at:<br>
> > - Raspberry PI. The connections would be a bit messy and I'm not sure if I'd need a second PI/Firestick etc for the Frontend, but I think I could get it to work.<br>
> > - Some flavour of Intel NUC. There seems to be a lot of choice and I'm not sure if hardware video acceleration is available, which means that CPU performance and cooling might need managing. I seem to have a bit of a blind spot with motherboards and am wary of buying one that either won't play video smoothly or uses significantly more power than my existing setup.<br>
> > - Some super low power motherboard and a Pi/Firestick/etc for the frontend.<br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks for any advice.<br>
> ><br>
> <br>
> <br>
> You could use a Pi4/5, but not sure you'd be happy with the video<br>
> performance, comm flagging speed, or compression. If you went this<br>
> way using a FireTV 4K Max as a frontend solves the remote issues and<br>
> you get the best picture if you use Leanfront on the FireTV. A PI 4<br>
> could easily handle the backend part.<br>
<br>
Jim please wax lyrical<br>
I've been trying to use a pi5 as a backend<br>
When it works it works beautifully, smooth and cores (htop) not busy<br>
<br>
But I've had a stream of errors:<br>
<br>
My SATA ssd (sumsung) in a usb (jmicron) enclosure suddenly loses connection and wont reconnect until reboot<br>
Mariadb looses eg storage group settings<br>
Record a program on a single channel on a single mux<br>
records 5 min (one show)<br>
records 10 min to end (another show)<br>
[recorded] shows nothing related to the show !!<br>
<br>
Are my funnies hardware issues?<br>
I'm booting and running on a m2<br>
<br>
So far I have not been sucessful - I want multipe partitions<br>
. Flash m2<br>
. GParted in a m2 enclosure on another machine<br>
everything is greyed (resize etc)<br>
<br>
So I need to contemplate about a BE on RaPi5<br>
<br>
James<br>
<br>
<br>
> <br>
> I have a NUC as a combo for my RV. It's an ASrock 1165G7. You don't<br>
> get or need video acceleration outside of the Iris graphic in the 11th<br>
> Gen Core i7. It have an M2.nvme 1T stick and a 1TB SSD. It has a fan<br>
> but you only hear it if you are compiling Mythtv or gaming. I like<br>
> that it's compact and has lots of connections and built-in wifi and<br>
> bluetooth. However, I still use it mainly as a backend in the TV<br>
> because I have to have the 2 FireTV sticks (den and bedroom) for<br>
> Netflix, also. I also think Leanfront is the best picture<br>
> particularly on a 4K UHD TV.<br>
> <br>
> If you end up with FireTVs for frontends, you can get the new fanless<br>
> N100 Intel PCs made by everyone. Some say the graphics are good.<br>
> <br>
> The N100 is more expensive than a PI but not as expensive as a main<br>
> steam NUC. I like the Fanless part.<br>
> <br>
> Jim A<br>
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