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PostPosted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:51 am 
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Finally.... a MBE I wouldn't mind leaving on 24/7.

http://www.marvell.com/products/embedde ... mputer.jsp

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:02 am 
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I saw this. I started to dream up uses for it- its got a usb host so you could connect an external HD or a USB cam, and its got an ethernet port so you could connect it to a wireless access point.

So its kind of a modular version of stuff you can already get. Don't get me wrong- its neat and I'd still like one to play with, but I wonder if its not a solution looking for a problem.


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:34 am 
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Actually, what I was thinking of was adding a NAS and a USB tuner and then you have a fully functional BE server for $99 plus the cost of the NAS and tuner:

http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/ ... v-kit.aspx

The FE could be a diskless slim box.

Alternatively, I could change my MBE/FE box running mythwelcome into a SBE/FE using WOL. I could then access mythweb remotely because the MBE would be running 24/7.

Admittedly, I probably won't do this right away. But I would like to go smaller/quieter at some point.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:54 am 
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Actually, what I was thinking of was adding a NAS and a USB tuner and then you have a fully functional BE server for $99 plus the cost of the NAS and tuner:


Wow that WOULD be neat, but there's a good deal of sweat equity there too- including the challenge of compiling Mythbackend for ARM. I've done a bit of openembedded linux for Marvel ARM cores (specifically gumstix stuff), but I'm short on free time since the new baby came (well, 8 months ago anyway).

If you ever pull the trigger on this project, I'd love to know about it- I haven't done any research yet, so I wonder what it would take to make it play with an HD-PVR. Since its BE only it works in theory!


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:58 am 
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It supports Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/etc. There setup instructions describe using ubuntu jaunty to install samba. I just checked and Myth appears to be in the arm port of ubuntu jaunty. Not sure about debian.

The chip itself has pins for SPDIF, mpeg2-TS, PCI-e and SATA that are unused in the development kit. I think I might wait a bit and see what they do with them in future form factors.

The chip itself uses 2W MAX (DC). Pretty impressive for 1.2GHz.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:49 am 
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Of course the Atom doesn't use much more than that at 1.6 GHz and is x86. They just need to get the power down on the rest of the system.

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I've looked at the atom and, as you said, the problem is the rest of the system. It's more of a PC than an appliance. IMHO, 35W is too much for an always-on appliance.

This is definitely an appliance. It will be interesting to see where it goes. Some of there future designs include HDMI and S/PDIF which seems to imply that one of the things they are looking at a multi-media appliance.

It will be interesting to see where they meet. The Marvell is half my dream system--extremely low power always on BE. Now I just need a zero noise on in <10s FE. I think I might need to wait a couple of years....

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:18 am 
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pilesofspam wrote:
Wow that WOULD be neat, but there's a good deal of sweat equity
there too- including the challenge of compiling Mythbackend for
ARM.
Which would be a hell of a lot simpler if one didn't have to
build X11 and Qt for a headless backend database and file
server server box.

[I _so_ don't understand that decision...]

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