[mythtv-users] Quiet cheap frontend for 1080p

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Tue Oct 9 02:11:33 UTC 2012


On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 04:46:00PM -0500, Douglas Wagner wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Teruel deCampo MD <chusty at attglobal.net>wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 10:32 +0100, Mike Perkins wrote:
> > > Standard practice is to place all your home kit on a private network
> > > (192.168.x.x) and hide it behind a good firewall box. If you do this
> > > then you
> > > can assign whatever IPs you like to your myth boxes and they will be
> > > immune to
> > > any changes your ISP makes. Not to mention protecting them from all
> > > the Internet
> > > nasties.
> >
> > Mike,
> >
> > Yes this is what I do and the backend has a second fix IP assigned by me
> > (192.160.0.64) that is the one pointed by any of the frontends. What I
> > was telling Chris is even with that setup, mythmote still can not
> > connect under myth 0.25 (It was OK under myth 0.24).
> > Thanks Mike anyway, sometimes obvious things for many are not as obvious
> > for others and this comments are very helpful.
> >
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> 
> 
> Any reason no one has mentioned the MacMini?  They're quiet, have built in

   They cost twice as much and have a GPU that's not well regarded in 
general and in particular is not that well supported in Linux.

> bluetooth/wifi, and actually come with an IR remote that will function (at
> least somewhat) within MythTV

   "functions somewhat" is not the kind of bar you want to reach when you
are paying 2x to 7x the price of alternatives.

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