I have been tinkering with a new media centre box for my living room for ages. Now I finally have the hardware to do it. It is a micro case DELL computer, I hoped it would fit under my TV but it is 2mm higher than the space under the TV.
I am now temporarily using a RaspberryPi 4 running RecallBOX. I have it for retro gaming and emulation, but it has an old version of KODI, so I use it for multimedia purposes. However, it has many disadvantages, such as problematic cooling and, above all, the lack of a power button. So to turn it on I have to flip the switch on the power socket, and to turn it off I have to wait for it to shut down, go to the TV and flip the switch on the power socket behind the TV again.
So the plan is to install a Linux distribution (still to be chosen), make KODI autorun and set up a samba server to copy downloaded films to drives.
As a sideline to this piece of hardware, would some custom services, maybe some bots for my projects? I will see...
Jan "Jenkings" Škoda - blog
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