[mythtv-users] Raspberry Pi 3 WiFi

Douglas Sargent dbsargent at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 18:41:04 UTC 2016


make it simple, use powerline. TP makes some cheap units

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Chad Lauritsen <csl4jc at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a Raspberry Pi 3 running a frontend (with remote mythbuntu 0.28
> backend) installed on top of Raspbian jessie.
>
> I'm very pleased with it as a frontend. Once I increased the video ram to
> 256M, it has worked flawlessly, when connected via ethernet. I cannot seem
> to get it to work satisfactorily via WiFi however. I would add that WiFi
> access works fine for other frontends, such as a mac book pro and a mac
> mini on the same network.
>
> Over WiFi, everything works except for HD playback. HD content is
> unwatchable: very choppy and appears to be "buffering" every second or so.
> I have tried a few things such as increasing the tcp receive buffer size,
> further increasing video RAM, modifying the power mgmt features of the wifi
> interface--all to no avail.
>
> Has anyone had success using mythfrontend to view HD content on a
> raspberry pi 3 over wifi? If so, what distro did you use and what config
> changes did you make if any?
>
> It's important to me because I plan to expand and add frontends where I
> don't have ethernet.
>
> csl
>
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