25 January 2010

MythDroid - an app for Android owners

All owners of Android and MyhtTV box should know about this fine project that let's you remote control your MythTV through WiFi. It supports music playback, browsing the TV guide and the starting/controlling playback of recorded stuff. With lcdd it can even send some feedback to you Android device so mythdroid can display playback time/music title.

How much power?

I recently got the possibility to check the power consumption of my HTPC (things haven't changed much since the setting up, installation of the hardware). So the machine's idle power consumption is around 45w. It goes up to around 80-90W when there's a havier use of the system. It's around the consumption of an older laptop. Not bad from a PC with good computing and video capacity! :)