[mythtv-users] Fronted advice

[Larry Kennedy]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Damian <myth at surr.co.uk> wrote:
> > I need it to be capable of HD playback and it will be connecting to a
> BenQ
> > W1300 projector (if that's relevant).
> >
> > Pretty much the only other use for the frontend will be a bit of
> browsing in
> > firefox and 'catchup tv' via iPlayer and ITV player etc.
> >
> > Any recommendations? And what sort of price am I looking at? Fingers
> crossed
> > for something in the Rasbery Pi type of price bracket, but not holding
> out
> > much hope for that :-)
>
> I don't have any personal experience with them, but you can find many
> people on this list using ECS Liva systems or similar as frontends.
> They're generally a little more than what you might pay for a
> Raspberry Pi, but it might fit your budget and needs.
>
> Eric
>

+1.  The ECS Liva works great, and it's on sale at Newegg for $120.  For
less than $10 you can add a 4-port USB hub to fix the lack of USB ports
(only 2).  I loaded Mythbuntu and it works very nicely. I have not tried
using either wireless or BT so I can't comment on that.


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