The best computer-tv setup for your living room<\/p>\n
Here, i am posting this to remind myself of how to setup my media center at home, so it can be a bit messy<\/p>\n
Kodi (XBMC) seems to be the only real competitor to Windows Media center, in my case, i feel it is much better than Windows Media Center.<\/p>\n
Hardware<\/p>\n
The raspberry PI 2 (With 1 GB ram) can function as the hardware with it’s HDMI output<\/p>\n
Or<\/p>\n
An old PC, with cooling switched to passive watter cooling (Cost me around $40 on ebay for the parts) to get rid of the noisy fan, and with the hard drive replaced by a bootable linux flash stick (Also to reduce noise)<\/p>\n
Please note that the analogue (D-SUB \/ VGA) cable is just as good as HDMI, analogue signal over such a short distance is not a problem, so you can connect the D-SUB to your TV or the HDMI cable, you will not notice the difference. But you will need to connect audio to external speakers or something.<\/p>\n
The disadvantage of the old PC method are<\/p>\n
The cooling system costs half as much as a raspberri PI ! alot of money i would say.
\nThe PC is bulky compared to the PI
\nDraws much more power than the PI<\/p>\n
The advantages<\/p>\n
You already have that old PC
\nYou can use Kodi on Windows, then use your IPAD as a keyboard and mouse (No such app exists for linux yet)
\nYou can use it for more general purpose purposes later on
\nIt’s eithernet port is not provided through USB like the PI
\nYou can have much more RAM on it
\nYou can add an input card to it and connect your home receiver to it
\nYou can install hard drives inside (Remember to make them spin down when not in use) and then use it as NAS
\nYou can install an IR receiver on the com port and use LIRC to program any remote you have
\nIt can play DVDs (If it has a DVD player)<\/p>\n
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Plugins that i like for Kodi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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