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The USB stick is blocking mainloop, when it loads artwork.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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So I would be better off with SSD?
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Some scene-setting:- I have the NUC 2820. I've been running this problem-free for months, using Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit, viewing/capturing terrestrial live TV via a PCTV usb-stick. The PVR software I use in Windows is DVBViewer, and I control the NUC by means of a Logitech keyboard/touchpad (in lieu of mouse) -combo, model K400r. This communicates via its own proprietary usb receiver for which Windows 8 has a MS driver. It's OK but a remote would be much better, plus it seems stupid to pre-empt one of the NUC's usb connections for this when it already has a receiver built-in.
I decided that on balance Kodi would be a far better choice, so I've made it my aim to migrate to that (in openELEC guise) and dump Windows. To start with I've installed OE ver. 4.0.7 with Tvheadend ver. 3.4.27, not on the NUC's HDD but on a usb-stick. I'm running XBMC vers. 13.2. This config is able to play back live TV over the HDMI connection to my LG TV. So far, all fine and dandy.
But now I come to the bit that isn't. It makes me feel a complete idiot to say it when numerous posters on here repeatedly assert how simple it is, but all my efforts to get either of two remotes I'm using to be "seen" by my NUC's IR-receiver have failed - totally. Either I am an idiot or something less than the whole story is being told. The question is:- Do I or do I not have to take some preparatory steps before the conversation between a remote and the NUC's receiver can begin? All the accounts on here of such-and-such a remote working "out of the box" suggest not. But in that case why won't mine?
The Wiki page "Using an MCE remote in XBMC" says "If you have one of the many cheap MCE remote controllers then just connect it to your PC and there's a fair chance it will just work". I have two such (one unbranded Chinese from E-bay, the other a TechnoTrend one bundled with their TV-card). On a quick test the first one - I haven't tested the TT one - does work if used with the IR receiver that comes with it. But that represents no gain: I need it to talk to the NUC's IR receiver and it's that that I can't get to work.
What do i need to do that I so far haven't done? Do I, for instance have to immerse myself in lircd.config, lircmap.xml, keyboard.xml and similar esoteric wizardry (I'm a Linux ignoramus, and have no plans to run any Linux distro on the NUC)? Do I have to remove the Logitech K400r before the NUC's built-in IR-receiver can kick in (I've already tried pulling out its IR plug-in receiver, and that made no difference at all)? Or what?
Guidance would be more than welcome, the more basic the better. I have of course searched (this forum and elsewhere) but found no cases that I could relate directly to my predicament.
Btw BIOS ver. is 38
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Bad news for ya - OpenElec IS a Linux distro!
If you had windows 8.1 on there already, why not just install XBMC on there? I have 2x 2820 NUCs and 1x 4010 i3 NUC all running windows 8.1 and using Logitech harmony remotes with the built in IR sensor. Install the windows drivers for the CIR and it should recognise any MCE remote.
That said, im sure OpenElec will work too, but if you say you have no plans to poke around or learn how to make it work, why not just stick with windows, which you are familiar with?
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If your remote isn't workout out of the box then it probably isn't an MCE remote. There's even a lot of remotes that say they are MCE remotes, but they're not.
Do you have a picture of the remotes you've tried?
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Well, those remotes do work out of the box, but as noted on the page, they are not "real" MCE remote controls. They're marketed as MCE remote controls, because they will mimic the same functionality when used with the included receiver, but the IR signal is different. It might still be possible to use the NUC's internal IR receiver, but it would require additional setup.
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I was under the assumption you are using OpenELEC. OpenELEC is linux. He made
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=189618 so that you know which steps to use for OE.
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Is changing your remote to an RC6 MCE compatible one an option? Either a One4All that has an RC6 model in its database, or a standard MCE RC6 model?
I run both Windows and Ubuntu/OpenElec, and it has made my life much easier using RC6 remotes either with a NUC's built in IR or a standard USB RC6 IR receiver.