[mythtv-users] Linux wall wart pulls 5 watts - could make a great master backend

[Christopher Meredith]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 24 February 2009 14:00:02 jarpublic at gmail.com wrote:
> > Marvell has released $100 dev kits of this new device. It is a small
> > wall wart that claims to run on 5 Watts. It has 512MB each of RAM and
> > Flash, and a 1.2GHz CPU, and gigabit ethernet, and usb 2.0. The
> > software and hardware is/will all be completely open source/spec. They
> > say the have ported a couple of the major Linux distributions already.
> > I was thinking this would be a nice master backend. I don't record
> > that much tv, and it would be nice to shutdown or S3 suspend my other
> > machines and then the only thing drawing power most of the day would
> > be this little thing.
>
> As a master B/E it would need storage. Were you thinking of some sort of
> network-based storage (which would also consume power), or using
> USB-attached
> drives?
>
> It's certainly an interesting concept. If it's an ARM processor a lot of
> the
> development for the NSLU2 might be useful.
>
> Faster and more RAM than an NSLU2, and in the same price range.
>
> Hmmm...
>
> And how am I going to use a tuner with that thing?
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