[mythtv-users] Nvidia ION frontend

Tom Bongiorno two.bits.11 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 19:05:55 UTC 2012


On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:16 PM, PJR <pjrobinson at metronet.co.uk> wrote:

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> On 04/10/12 17:25, Tom Bongiorno wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Daniel Frey <dmfrey at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Josu Lazkano <josu.lazkano at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> Hello, I just change my system and now I have a backend on a different
>>> server, so I need a light frontend machine.
>>>
>>> My idea is to install 8GB SSD drive on a Nvidia ION board, and suspend
>>> when I switch off the TV.
>>>
>>> Is this a good idea?
>>>
>>> I will appreciate your comments and your experience on light frontends.
>>>
>>> Thanks and best regards.
>>>
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>>  Josu,
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>>  I have a FE on an Nvidia ION platform.  It works great.  Does your tv
>> support CEC?  If so, you could possibly can get a CEC adapter for that box
>> and then, when the CEC adapter receives those signals, have it kick off a
>> suspend and resume, or shutdown, startup.  I haven't tried it myself, but I
>> believe, in theory, this should be possible.
>>
>>  Dan
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> I currently have 5 Nvidia ION frontends.  All playing HD and Blu-rays very
> well.  I use 8GB thumb drives or SD cards in all of them.  No problems at
> all.  I am not sure if bootup would be quicker with an SSD, but the expense
> was not justified for me.  I have long wanted to try standby mode, but
> never got around to it.  My latest frontends have been Zotac ZBox ID11
> snagged on eBay for $125 each with $10 for an 8GB SD card.
>
>  -Tom
>
>  I run an Nvidia ION2 frontend with 64GB SSD (for S/W) and 1T Raid 1 HDD
> (for data) set up, it works just find including recording and play back of
> HD TV. No noticeable improvement in boot times over HDD. My set up goes to
> sleep when not recording, woken up by the RTC alarm. To play back when not
> recording it has to be woken up which is done by the WakeonLAN feature of
> Mythmote.  Propose to add CEC control at some time
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Forgot to mention, that three of my frontends are ION and two (soon to be
three) are ION2.

-Tom
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