OpenELEC 5.0
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OpenELEC 5.0
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Re: OpenELEC 5.0
#2Very grateful for the OpenELEC distribution. Worked great on my RPi and now seriously considering to replace Fedora on my HTPC NUC with it, as well.
If any of the devs read this, THANKS a bunch and happy new year!
Re: OpenELEC 5.0
#3After my original RaspberryPi which was used for a media centre running OpenELEC died, I've gotten a new Pi and installed Raspbmc on it. Although it did what it said on the box, and I am appreciative for the work done by that team, going back to OpenELEC today was particularly nice. Usually I like to customize my linux machines, but with media centres, I'm more than happy to take something pretty much stock, and just use it.
I downloaded the 5.0 image (which I didn't realise was only just released), dd'ed it to my SD card, booted the pi, and then ran the first run wizard (pretty much clicking next on everything except the dhcp config).
Quick, easy, and enjoyable. Thanks to everyone for all your hard work making this distro.
Re: OpenELEC 5.0
#4I've used it on an Intel Celeron machine and it was absolutely wonderful, apart from the fact that the machine had the Intel 24p bug.
I've recently switched to a Zotac PI320 which is very nice as well, but sadly due to some UEFI nonsense it can't boot OpenElec :( This is a shame as it's easily the simplest way to get a Kodi installation up and running (and automatically updated!).
Re: OpenELEC 5.0
#5I just bought the cubox to try this out on (Before that I was using i3 intel NUCs, so my cost will go from around 400$ per node to 100$ per node). I cannot even begin to evangelize how awesome this project is. You can keep all your source content in a central place with very little system requirements and do all the unpacking on a tiny arm/intel system. Interface is fantastic, and paired with yaste its the best media center experience that exists today.
Re: OpenELEC 5.0
#6I just bought the cubox to try this out on (Before that I was using i3 intel NUCs, so my cost will go from around 400$ per node to 100$ per node). I cannot even begin to evangelize how awesome this project is. You can keep all your source content in a central place with very little system requirements and do all the unpacking on a tiny arm/intel system. Interface is fantastic, and paired with yaste its the best media…
I have this exact setup: a Cubox-i4 Pro in the front room and RPi in a bedroom) connected to my QNAP NAS which runs a shared (MySQL) library; it's fantastic. Can't recommend it highly enough.
Re: OpenELEC 5.0
#7This is a very confusing name. My first thought was that this is a opensource election software.
Re: OpenELEC 5.0
#8I can warmly recommend the Gigabyte Brix GB-BXBT-2807 to anyone looking for a completely fanless, quick, and fully supported device. As of OpenELEC 5.0 wireless and bluetooth has been working out of the box. They're on the expensive side of the spectrum, but very quick and neat little boxes.
Re: OpenELEC 5.0
#9This is a very confusing name. My first thought was that this is a opensource election software.
Agreed. At least XBMC had "media" in there. If they are going to use such meaningless names, they should just always stick "media software" after the name in all posts or something.
Re: OpenELEC 5.0
#10I just bought the cubox to try this out on (Before that I was using i3 intel NUCs, so my cost will go from around 400$ per node to 100$ per node). I cannot even begin to evangelize how awesome this project is. You can keep all your source content in a central place with very little system requirements and do all the unpacking on a tiny arm/intel system. Interface is fantastic, and paired with yaste its the best media…
I have this exact setup: a Cubox-i4 Pro in the front room and RPi in a bedroom) connected to my QNAP NAS which runs a shared (MySQL) library; it's fantastic. Can't recommend it highly enough.
Any suggestions on a good android device (not a phone) for running Yaste? I've been extremely unimpressed with all the home theater remote options on the market now.