[mythtv-users] MythTV Frontend

[Mike Perkins]

On 03/03/13 10:36, Ian Barton wrote:
> On 28/02/13 20:06, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Brian Frost" <bfrost at brainboy.com>
>>
>>> I know that this has been beat into the ground -- I love the MythTV FE
>>> but I sure wish that there was a cheap way (<$100) to run it for the
>>> occasional TV (guest room, etc).
>>>
>>> Is there any work going toward porting MythFE to non-X86
>>> architectures?
>>
>> There's been some discussion on the list in the last 3 months -- you'll
>> probably find it in the archives -- about running the FE on a Raspberry Pi;
>> even after you get done putting a case and wallwart on it, that's about a
>> $60-75 proposition, so it would be really nice.  I don't know what the
>> current hacking status on that is, though.  I suspect it might end up
>> being limited to SDTV, if you can make it work at all.
>>
>
> I have been playing around with a Pi for a kitchen TV. It's taken a bit of
> experimentation, but I have finally go there. Overall I am very happy. There are
> a couple of small issues like tearing of videos when you fast forward and
> slightly laggy controls, but for 38GBP, including case it's excellent.
>
> I am using xbmc as a front end with the mythtv plugin and an android phone as a
> remote. If you want the least hassle install use raspbmc, which has everything
> built in. I am actually using Arch because I want the box to do some other
> stuff, which wasn't straightforward using rasbmc.
>
If "you want the box to do other stuff", for 38 GBP why not just buy another one?

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Mike Perkins