[mythtv-users] Frontend Upgrade

[Paul Bender]

David Frascone wrote:
> 
> Ok -- it's about time for me to upgrade my diskless frontend, so I need 
> some help on some items:
> 
> 1) I run diskless, and prefer as little noise as possible.  I know that 
> AMD makes a low power CPU that can be passivly cooled, but I've had 
> trouble finding one from any of the normal search engines.  (It's hard 
> to put 15watts in the search).  So -- does anyone have a link for a CPU 
> / MB combo that can be passivly cooled?  Built in video would also be 
> nice -- as long as the whole combo can keep up with HD video playback.  
> So -- does anyone have any newegg or other online vendor links?

While not fanless an AMD Athlon 64 Lima with an NVIDIA 6150 based 
motherboard makes very little noise.

> 2) Lirc is a constant cause of issues for me.  It just often fails, and 
> my wife is not technologically savy enough to ssh in and kill 
> mythfrontend.  So -- she usually resorts to pushing reset.  While this 
> is fine on a diskless box -- it is unnecessary downtime.  So -- what I 
> would like is some input on cases that have enough controls to navigate 
> back and kill mythfrontend.  I guess a single "things are messed up" 
> button would be ok -- but ideally it would be a set of arrows and a 
> select.  (And, maybe even an escape).  Does this exist?  (of course, the 
> buttons need to be some kind of HID or something -- an IR transmitter 
> wouldn't do so well, if lircd was hosed.

Why not remap the power button such that it restarts the mythfrontend?