Hey Imran where is a good place to pick one up? For a good price
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From: Imran Chaudhry<
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Sent: 12/05/2014 06:14 PM
To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List<
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] What XBMC Hardware?
Hi Stuart,
I think Michael Pavling has the Revo 3600 which does not have the
optical out - there is an config change needed to get menu sounds I
think.
I ended up getting a Revo 3610 - which sounds like what you have. This
does have optical out. It was really easy to set-up with OpenElec.
Everything "just worked" - even my RC6 Microsoft Media Center remote
all works. Wireless Logitech keyboard just works. Standby/resume just
works.
The hardest bit was replacing the HDD, Acer really don't want you to
open these things. I had to pry it open with a screwdriver and the
help of some YouTube videos. It's quick even with a spinning rust HDD
so I don't think an SSD will gain me much.
Anyway, it's early days with it but just wanted to report that all is
well so far. The Acer Revo 36x0 seems like an ideal, HD-capable and
relatively cheap XBMC appliance like the old XBox was.
By the way, did you choose NFS because it gives better streaming
performance than Samba?
On 28 April 2014 08:14, Stuart Sears <stuart@???> wrote:
> On 27/04/14 10:25, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Replies inline:
> [snip]
>>> At home I've got a couple of XBMC machines set up, both Atom boards. One's
>>> an Acer Aspire Revo - it's okay, but was a little fiddly to get all the
>>> audio configured. The other was a Zotac Zbox (can't remember exactly which
>>> model though) and it was a breeze to set up (I went with XBMCbuntu rather
>>> than OpenElec), and it runs the TV in the living room. Pretty much on all
>>> the time; we never watch broadcast telly.
>>
>> Good to hear another point that the Acer Revo works fine. I did the
>> research so I know about the sound fiddles but it has been solved.
>> I've bookmarked some blogs/forum posts where they list the config file
>> changes needed.
>
> FWIW I have one of these as my XBMC machine, plugged in over HDMI and
> also using the optical out to my AV amplifier.
>
> Audio out on either/both of these "just work" using the newest openelec
> build or generic xbmc on top of another distro (although I've stuck with
> openelec now, it's a single-purpose box)
>
> what are these supposed audio problems? I've never had any.
>
> [snip]
>>> At home I do run a separate file-server for the media (the XBMC boxes has
>>> little SSDs to keep them quiet), and a shared SQL server for the app
>>> database,
>
> ditto, MySQL and NFS on an HP microserver for me, streamed over 300M
> powerline adapters. Getting the external DB up and running in openelec
> requires a bit of cmdline-fu but that's not particularly difficult and
> there are entries on the XBMC wiki on how to achieve it.
>
> Works
>
> Stuart
>
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