[mythtv-users] MythTV Frontend

Ian Barton lists at wilkesley.net
Sun Mar 3 12:31:59 UTC 2013


On 03/03/13 11:35, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 03/03/13 10:36, Ian Barton wrote:
>> On 28/02/13 20:06, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Brian Frost" <bfrost at brainboy.com>
>>>
>>>> I know that this has been beat into the ground -- I love the MythTV FE
>>>> but I sure wish that there was a cheap way (<$100) to run it for the
>>>> occasional TV (guest room, etc).
>>>>
>>>> Is there any work going toward porting MythFE to non-X86
>>>> architectures?
>>>
>>> There's been some discussion on the list in the last 3 months -- you'll
>>> probably find it in the archives -- about running the FE on a
>>> Raspberry Pi;
>>> even after you get done putting a case and wallwart on it, that's
>>> about a
>>> $60-75 proposition, so it would be really nice.  I don't know what the
>>> current hacking status on that is, though.  I suspect it might end up
>>> being limited to SDTV, if you can make it work at all.
>>>
>>
>> I have been playing around with a Pi for a kitchen TV. It's taken a
>> bit of
>> experimentation, but I have finally go there. Overall I am very happy.
>> There are
>> a couple of small issues like tearing of videos when you fast forward and
>> slightly laggy controls, but for 38GBP, including case it's excellent.
>>
>> I am using xbmc as a front end with the mythtv plugin and an android
>> phone as a
>> remote. If you want the least hassle install use raspbmc, which has
>> everything
>> built in. I am actually using Arch because I want the box to do some
>> other
>> stuff, which wasn't straightforward using rasbmc.
>>
> If "you want the box to do other stuff", for 38 GBP why not just buy
> another one?
>

I already have:) However, the kitchen Pi also has two temperature 
sensors, one for outside and one for the kitchen. It's about the only 
place where it's easy to position an outside sensor near to something 
that can read it.


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