[mythtv-users] Time to move to an HDMI stick for FEs?

[Kris Jensen]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Doug Scoular (dscoular) <
dscoular at cisco.com> wrote:

> Hi Kris,
>
> On 13/03/2015 2:04 pm, Kris Jensen <kris.jensen.knj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I hope it helps fellow MythTV/MeegoPad users.
>
>
>
>         Thanks so much for this, I've been waiting on my MeeGoPad HDMI
> stick to
> arrive with baited breath!
>
>         I'm hoping to connect it to my Vivitek Qumi-Q5 micro projector and
> Bose
> mini SoundLink speaker - having it power on when the projector fired up
> would be great!
>
>         I'm still blown away by how good the combination of the Qumi Q5 +
> Bose
> mini SoundLink speaker is.
>
>         I tried to download the bios from that forum but it seemed to be
> wrapped
> in several layers of Ad/Mal-ware. Do you know of any alternative locations
> to obtain the bios ?
>


Yes, they have baited links that download crap. However, on that download
page, near the bottom you'll find "*This file is password protected. Please
enter the password to unlock links." * The password is in the first post, "
freaktab.com" no quotes if it was missed. Then it will show the legitimate
DL links.  Hope it helps.




>         I've been using Kodi with XBian on a Raspberry Pi and it's been
> great,
> but I'm hoping for a little more oomf with the MeegoPad (in order to run a
> few unrelated daemons).
>
>         One thing I do think, is that coming from over a decade of using
> the
> MythTV frontend, it took me quite a while to appreciate just how wonderful
> Kodi (ne XBMC) is... once you figure out how to set up and populate the
> Kodi meta-data libraries, it's great. Also, it didn't help that quite a
> few distributions contained out of date MythTV plugins (or sometimes none
> at all). However, after only a little bit of time and perseverance I now
> really love my XBian/Kodi/Pi/MythTV combination and it works flawlessly
> with HD and is a very flexible mythtv frontend. I use Kodi across XBian,
> Android, OSX and Linux.
>
>         I think the MythTV mailing lists just need to give Kodi a decent
> chance.
>



Yes I use Kodi too. It works well. However there is much that Kodi can't do
that a true frontend can.  Also (at least too me) a true MytyTV frontend
has so much better image processing.

Kris






>
>         Thanks for the info though! I can't wait to start playing with my
> MeeGoPad.
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Doug
>
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