[mythtv-users] when and how to upgrade to 0.29

[Tim Draper]

 ---- On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 23:01:13 +0000 Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote ---- 
 > The lounge TV is fully cluttered with DVD and appleTV. Adding a FE would be more pain,
 >   You could use a Raspberry Pi frontend - credit card size, you can easily hide it.
 > 
 > Or an Intel-style NUC type of device.I believe they can be hung on the back of the TV. Not sure how remote control would work then, though... _______________________________________________ 

i'm a big fan of the celeron nuc's for an FE. bluetooth control works well on them if you have a remote that can emulate a bluetooth keyboard, even if the drivers for my bluetooth hardware is a bit buggy as it spams dmesg and needs a service restart every 6hours - all driver level issues so i'm hoping they'll be a fix soon on the kernel packages
i did use IR, and while it worked well, IR could be a bit intermittent which i always put it down to the dog getting in the way.

i use NUC for my main lounge FE where i'm less tolerant of delays, and rpi3's for the rest of the FE's in the house...not that the rpi3 is poor performance, just the nuc has more grunt.

i went with the upgrade from 28 to 29 a few weeks ago, and so far it's been flawless.  not needed to raise any show-stopper bugs or do any yum updates since then.