[mythtv-users] ECS LIVA Frontend

[Phil Wild]

On 1 March 2015 at 01:33, Scott Lipcon <slipcon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just to add my experience - I bought one of the new ECS Liva-X models to use
> as a second frontend.  I got the higher end (4G/64G) model, but I think the
> 2G/32G one would work just as well.   It works ok as a frontend, but not
> without some difficulties.    I had to upgrade to Mythbuntu 14.10 (I would
> have preferred to use the 14.04 LTS releases) in order to get reliable HDMI
> audio.    It wont boot at all if the TV isn't powered on at boot-up, which
> is annoying but not a dealbreaker.  I spent the most time trying to get it
> to not lose its mind whenever the TV was off - I had to disable various
> screensaving/power saving options, DPMS, etc - either HDMI video wouldn't
> come back, or HDMI audio, or both - but eventually I got that set right, and
> it seems to be working well.
>

I stopped xfsettingsd from auto-starting and this solved my problem of
the LIVA needing the TV to be on all the time.