[ANN] OpenELEC.tv - very small and fast booting Embedded Linux Distribution with XBMC

Jorge18 Wrote:Wow, that's crazy fast compared to mine.

Does your library have posters/fanart locally?

Nope, i did it from scratch to simulate a fresh noob install, i wanted to see the whole process and the difference between dharma , pre-eden and OE. It did take me a couple head scratches and F@$% You's to OE for not seeing my smb share, but it was windows stopping it , and after read on OE forum and actuall the biggest help was a Samba share guide on xmbc forum to get OE to see my smb shares, but after i shared it, i had OE scrape everything from TMDB and the TVBD and everything ( minus about 6 movies which i knew were going to not scrape) worked perfectly fine in less than 2 hours, i say for each movie i saw it query , resolve a name, fetch info and download fanart, poster and info in about 5-6 sec per movie, some even faster. Are you sure its not your internet connection? or read write speed of your usb thumb drive.

Makes me wonder though has anyone found a micro usb drive with fast read/write speeds?
i know this should prob go in the hardware section but, IRT OE i want to be able to boot a diskless pc via USB ( one of the drives i posted below).. any one have thoughts or comments or has found a better micro usb with faster speeds? I know i could just buy a ssd but im interested in doing this via usb for now..

Micro:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...ZE8GBASBNA #3 choice

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...ve%2097463 #2 choice

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...ZX16GBSBNA #1 choice

but alternatively i want these read/write speeds of a regular usb drive

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...PEF16GRUSB

Alright guys, just wanted to give you an update to my situation...

It WAS the usb stick that was slowing down the process. I slapped in a 500gb SATA drive I had and OpenELEC FLIES with it. My whole library took maybe 20 minutes to build. For comparison, on the USB drive, it took about 30 hours. Yes, that wasn't a mistake, it took 30 HOURS!!

OpenELEC is awesome, boots on my PC in less than 30 seconds from being completely off.

sraue Wrote:How this looks?

http://openelec.tv/index.php/gallerie.html

Just FYI - the link above is broken. At least, it does not work for me.

Paraffin Wrote:Just run it on the harddrive, this way it also creates the folders on your HDD for storing local media and XBMC come presetup with these sources..

some of us have it installed with no hdd at all!

No HDD/SDD necessary:
Foxconn NT-A3500 + 4GB RAM stick + 16GB USB2.0 stick + FLIRC = XBMC set-top box for under $200 *all in* (okay, I'm not counting the cost of the remote, since any old remote you have laying around will work with FLIRC).

sion28 Wrote:some of us have it installed with no hdd at all!

No HDD/SDD necessary:
Foxconn NT-A3500 + 4GB RAM stick + 16GB USB2.0 stick + FLIRC = XBMC set-top box for under $200 *all in* (okay, I'm not counting the cost of the remote, since any old remote you have laying around will work with FLIRC).

2 quick questions for you.

I would guess that you program FLIRC on another PC than plug it into your OpenElec box and it just works. No post config required.

What is the boot time? Does OpenElec ever sleep? (would guess it doesn't)

sion28 Wrote:some of us have it installed with no hdd at all!

No HDD/SDD necessary:
Foxconn NT-A3500 + 4GB RAM stick + 16GB USB2.0 stick + FLIRC = XBMC set-top box for under $200 *all in* (okay, I'm not counting the cost of the remote, since any old remote you have laying around will work with FLIRC).

that is almost identical to what i am going to purchase, i just did some research on the foxconn box, think though i might swing for a 32 gb SSD from Patriot dont know how you got in under 200 though since the cheapest foxconn box i see is 175 and i guess you could get some cheap ram and maybe a 4 gb usb for 25?

I have an Asus EB1501P and Acer revo 3700 so i think this foxconn will be a nice addition for my other room

Went to try Openelec for the first time, thought I'd try the eden build and install it on a spare ide hard drive, but, installer says no drives detected.

Spotted that not all driver's are built into OpenElec, so any thought on how I can get this up and running? System I'm testing with doesn't have any sata, and I have plenty of spare 20~40gig ide drives.

Thanks.

vbat99 Wrote:Went to try Openelec for the first time, thought I'd try the eden build and install it on a spare ide hard drive, but, installer says no drives detected.

Have you formatted this drive?
OE will not pick it up if it does not have a partition on it.

SavellM Wrote:Have you formatted this drive?
OE will not pick it up if it does not have a partition on it.

I did read that message, so checked in windows and yes, there was a FAT32 partition. Deleted it anyway and created a new partition, also FAT32. Formatted and tried again. No Joy. This was a spare 20Gb drive.

So I tried to see if it would install on a drive I'm currently booting on, XP installed on it so I know it's good. Also a IDE drive. But same message.

Finally check was my main system with a SATA drive. This time it listed the 500G hard drive as an option to install too.

I noted on one post at openelec.tv forum, wording to the effect that not all drivers are installed for all chipsets, so openelec may not install to a ide drive.

This was my only hint that it wasn't something I was doing. lol