Does anyone have a full working Zotac Zbox with XBMC?

Hi!

Will a SD with 15MB/s be enouth or it will be a big diffrence to run with 20MB/s or 30MB/s?

Harmony Remote arrived yesterday and Flirc came today, all set up already, such a simple process! Going to follow those tips now on shutdown/suspend, thanks.

Edit:

Hmm, all working great now but the Harmony sure does have some bad input lag.. didn't expect this from an expensive remote! Turned down the latency in the Harmony settings but it's no better..

I'll give this a try. Any other tips?

Edit 2:

Managed to improve it a bit with these tips and this blog article, still seems around 300ms off during quick presses though.. Mabye it's an Flirc problem.

I have been trying to figure out the suspend behavior and it seems flaky. Sometimes I am able to wake the Zbox after a long suspend with the HP MCE remote+usb receiver, sometimes not and I have to press the power button on the device. Then sometimes after a long suspension and subsequent wake, the device can't see my shares. It has no problem getting an IP address, I have even set a static one, but it somehow cannot find my network ever after several reboots. I had to completely shut down the device to get it working again. I don't know, maybe this version of Openelec (1.0.2) is still buggy or there is a BIOS trick I am missing but I will keep at it before the return policy expires. As it is now, I don't think the device will make it to my living room this Christmas.

Suspend seems fine here, could try start over with the latest generic Eden nightly of OpenELEC.

My Zotac Zbox ND22 should arrive today. Is it true that I should use Openelec generic? Why not ION Builds or Intel Builds?

snowjim Wrote:My Zotac Zbox ND22 should arrive today. Is it true that I should use Openelec generic? Why not ION Builds or Intel Builds?

Straight from the horses mouth, so to speak

toineb Wrote:You will need the generic and not the ion build

http://www.openelec.tv/find-help/documen...zbox-nd-22

You should also read this

http://www.openelec.tv/forum/27-hardware...dware-page

toineb Wrote:Straight from the horses mouth, so to speak

Thanks!

I have now done the following :

1. Installed one Corsair 4GB DDR3 PC3-10600 1333MHz SO-DIMM
2. Installed the generic OpenElec on to a Sandisc 16GB USB stick
3. Installed SanDisk Secure Digital Extreme Pro 8GB (SDHC) (Class 10) (45MB/S) SD card
4. Start Zotac ZBox HD-ND22
   

The splashscreen for Zotac is shown then it begins to read from the USB stick(it is bliking) but then the screen goas black and only a carrot is at the top left, it seemse like it is not reading anymore form the USB stick?

I have been in the BIOS and saw that the boot order was correct(first USB then SD) :

1 Boot [USB]
2 Boot [SD card]

So what might be the problem? I Supose that the installation of the penElec will format the USB stick coreccly? I do see that it have placed a couple of files on it.

Pleas help!

I selected the USB device manually by pressing F8 or F11 at boot, I can never remember which key it is for the boot device menu! If this doesn't work for you I would try follow the OpenELEC guide for setting up your USB stick again.

DuMbGuM Wrote:I selected the USB device manually by pressing F8 or F11 at boot, I can never remember which key it is for the boot device menu! If this doesn't work for you I would try follow the OpenELEC guide for setting up your USB stick again.

Thanks! The front USB do not work for installation, when switching to one of the USB ports on the back the installation started.

But it was not over there, when looking for drivers to install the software on it took ages, some times I got a timout on the USB container event. But after a couple of tries it started to install on the SD card, it went to 75% then it did nothing more and this took about 20 min.

I tried to setup the USB stick again with the guide but it resulted in the same problem. I switched to a smaller 8 GB USB stick and this went however fine.

The xbmc is running really well so far on this product but it have a bit to high fan sound.

I will try some more tomorrow

snowjim Wrote:The xbmc is running really well so far on this product but it have a bit to high fan sound.

I will try some more tomorrow

This can be adjusted in the bios