[mythtv-users] Anybody using an Nvidia Shield as an FE? Tegra X1, 3GB RAM

Tom Bongiorno tbjr at bongohut.com
Wed Feb 8 18:24:21 UTC 2017


On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Daniel Frey <dmfrey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mythtv Player has a native Android TV interface and supports v0.28+. Give
> it a shot and let me know if you have any issues.
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017, 11:38 AM Paul Gallaway <paul at gallaway.ca> wrote:
>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I just picked up a $200 Nvidia Shield TV box so I could use Kodi and
>> Amazon TV in 4K. It's a fairly beefy system and was wondering if anybody
>> has tried installing MythTV for ARM on one. I see that people are running
>> Myth on a Raspberry Pi but the Shield is running Android, so I'm wondering
>> if the OS might be the limiting factor.
>>
>>
>> There's a couple players (Mythling by Donald Oakes and MythTV Player by
>> Daniel Frey) in the Play Store if you haven't checked there. I don't use
>> them regularly so not sure what version of MythTV backend they require, not
>> sure if they will work on the Shield, but that might be the path of least
>> resistance to getting something like a frontend going compared to
>> installing an alternative OS and compiling mythfrontend lite for ARM etc.
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I am also considering transitioning everything to an Nvidia Shield TV.

Is this geared toward mobile devices with small touchscreens? Does it
require a keyboard or will it work with a remote?

Thanks in advance.

-Tom
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