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

[Tim Draper]

 ---- On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:32:04 +0000 Jim Abernathy <jfabernathy at outlook.com> wrote ---- 
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 > On 11/30/2017 06:57 AM, Tim Draper wrote: 
 > >   ---- 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... _______________________________________________ 
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 > > 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. 
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 > > 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. 
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 > > 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. 
 > Your Celeron NUC must be newer than my Ivy Bridge NUCs (3rd gen).  I had  
 > to move to Ivy Bridge Core i3 NUCs to get smooth video playback on my  
 > FEs. I talked with a friend who's still back at Intel and he agreed that  
 > the Celeron N3450 based frontends would be great up to 4K. 
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mine is the DN2820FYKH model, with celeron 2830. apparently the celeron 2820 chip had issues with 25fps content, so the 2830 model is the one to get of that era. Bay Trail architecture. almost positive it does 1080p else i wouldnt of bought it, i'm just trying to think if it's ever had anything more than 720p/1080i through it though.

if i were buying a nuc now, it'd be the NUC6CAYH kit, as i already have ssd & memory. Intel ARK claims it can handle 4k playback
All my TVs are 1080p's and no pressing desire to move to 2k/4k. that upgrade will come when the TV dies, but since i only watch FTA broadcast TV, then there's no signal out there to find hardware limits.