[mythtv-users] Intel-Powered ODROID-H2

Jay Harbeston (ISeePeople) jharbestonus at gmail.com
Sat Dec 8 16:49:20 UTC 2018



> On Dec 8, 2018, at 11:37 AM, George Poulson <george.poulson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 at 16:20, Jay Harbeston (ISeePeople) <jharbestonus at gmail.com <mailto:jharbestonus at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071HSSX3N/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071HSSX3N/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1>
> 
> When I bought it, it was $70 as a lightning deal, but is now $109. Looks like it goes lightning deal every month or so.
> 
> It is an intel cherry trail processor, and needs 2 things done once linux(ubuntu 18.10 in my case) is installed to get full benefit from it.
> 
> As a frontend running latest master to take advantage of the VAAPI 2 changes, it works fine, and currently master frontend is able to talk with v29 backend.
> 
> 
> I see that I can get one of these from Amazon UK for GBP90. That's a tad more than I was hoping to pay but I may look around for other sources.

Do they do ‘lightning deals’ on amazon UK ? That is how I got mine cheaper.

> Having recently upgraded our TV from 26"/720p to 43"/4K I am now in serious need of some better quality playback! I also discovered by accident yesterday that a 30/master frontend will talk happily with my 29 backend so that's another plus for the upgrade path.
> Incidentally, what are those "2 things that need to be done"?
> 

A txt file for the firmware driver needs to be added for the broadcom wireless to work correctly, and a couple of statements need to be added to audio configuration. I spent a lot more time searching for the fix than I did applying it.

> Thanks for the pointer :-)
> George
> 


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