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Ok, so back from Mexico and got to play with the NUC today.

Bought the Celeron model.

I think I've misinterpreted the blurb on ebuyer - CLICKY

I read that as having an internal USB header. I see where could of been!





Also noticed the casing is metal. That's gonna be a beatch to make a window in! Think I might have to drill it.

But I want my RC6 receiver fitted internally with the Simerec!

What's the easiest way to get internal usb pins??

I think some builds do have internal USB. Newer models I think. Check the intel forums about it. Someone from intel chimed in and said something about it but I'm currently on my iPhone.

You might can send the board to them and have it replaced with one with USB internal due to it not meeting advertised specs.

(2013-05-25, 21:14)cbiggers Wrote: [ -> ]I think some builds do have internal USB. Newer models I think. Check the intel forums about it. Someone from intel chimed in and said something about it but I'm currently on my iPhone.

You might can send the board to them and have it replaced with one with USB internal due to it not meeting advertised specs.

Awesome! I'll have a nose!

Edit - https://intel-communities.jive-mobile.co...s%2F193946

huh!?!

(2013-05-25, 21:30)jammyb Wrote: [ -> ]

(2013-05-25, 21:14)cbiggers Wrote: [ -> ]I think some builds do have internal USB. Newer models I think. Check the intel forums about it. Someone from intel chimed in and said something about it but I'm currently on my iPhone.

You might can send the board to them and have it replaced with one with USB internal due to it not meeting advertised specs.

Awesome! I'll have a nose!

Edit - https://intel-communities.jive-mobile.co...s%2F193946

huh!?!

http://communities.intel.com/community/tech/nuc

try that. somewhere in there is where i read it

Cheers.

Have made a post https://intel-communities.jive-mobile.co...ect%3Dtrue

and contacted NUC support.


Still can't believe how small it is! Very impressed!

Hmmmmm.

They've emailed back asking for date of purchase and where from. And a pic of where the missing USB header is.

Definitely next to the internal power pins in my pics above, right? Lol.

(2013-05-29, 15:19)jammyb Wrote: [ -> ]Hmmmmm.

They've emailed back asking for date of purchase and where from. And a pic of where the missing USB header is.

Definitely next to the internal power pins in my pics above, right? Lol.

Yes, that's what I've done.

They've responded saying send it back to ebuyer.

I've responded asking How can ebuyer guarantee that the replacement has an internal USB header?

Gonna send it back and get something else. I'm out! Intel are crap!


Hmmm, balls in intels court now. Ebuyer won't accept the return of the item. HA!

(2013-05-23, 10:57)Crssi Wrote: [ -> ]Some resources about brightness,contrast,gamma etc.:
http://www.poynton.com/notes/brightness_and_contrast/
http://www.poynton.com/notes/colour_and_...mmaFAQ.htm
http://www.audioholics.com/tweaks/calibr...-xvycc-rgb
http://lareservediscomobile.free.fr/doc/...er-07.html

Well this is strange. Per crssi's links above I ran the xrandr --verbose command through SSH and it's reading my gamma settings as 0.84:0.84:0.84 despite the command in the autostart.sh setting to 1.20:1.20:1.20, plus I don't see any brightness setting at all. Still not sure what that gamma setting actually controls but looks like I'll have to do more testing to figure out what's going on w/this. PQ is still passable to me in the meantime but it would be nice to be able to do some fine tuning, and to know that whatever changes I'm making to these settings in the autostart.sh are actually sticking and that it's not just my imagination if I see a difference in PQ one way or another.

If you used PayPal or eBay and the item is not as described, open a case with PayPal.

Used credit card bud.

UPDATE

Intel are going to send me a new NUC with the header. RESULT!

(2013-05-29, 23:26)ElJimador Wrote: [ -> ]Well this is strange. Per crssi's links above I ran the xrandr --verbose command through SSH and it's reading my gamma settings as 0.84:0.84:0.84 despite the command in the autostart.sh setting to 1.20:1.20:1.20, plus I don't see any brightness setting at all. Still not sure what that gamma setting actually controls but looks like I'll have to do more testing to figure out what's going on w/this. PQ is still passable to me in the meantime but it would be nice to be able to do some fine tuning, and to know that whatever changes I'm making to these settings in the autostart.sh are actually sticking and that it's not just my imagination if I see a difference in PQ one way or another.

Make sure your autostart.sh is executable:
chmod +x /storage/.config/autostart.sh

Hello people,

I signed up specifically to thank everyone that has contributed to this thread, it has helped me enormously over the past few weeks as I set up my NUC.

My road to watching movies on my TV has been a bumpy one.

For a majority of movies, I used my PS3, but Cinavia reared its ugly head, it also would not play all the formats I threw at it.

So then I bought an Xbox 360, which has no Cinavia, but again had trouble playing certain formats, and I had audio problems too.

Next up was a new 5.1 surround sound system, which I needed anyway. For the longest time this played everything I threw at it, with no issues, and I was a happy man! Until Cinavia again popped up on my TV, blocking the sound.

By this point I was gutted and decided the best course of action was a dedicated home threatre PC.

Saw the NUC and loved the size, swiftly ordered the DC3217iye, along with 1 x 8GB stick of Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz RAM, an Intel 525 90GB SSD and a WiFi/Bluetooth Card.

Originally was going to boot with Windows, however I decided that before I ordered the software, I'd try Linux.

Loaded Ubuntu and played my files through VLC - alittle bit of lag here and there

Next up was XBMCbuntu, which has currently played absolutely everything I've chucked at it with no issues what-so-ever!

I then bought a 3TB NAS to stream my content, and had buffer issues over WiFi, again this thread saved me with the suggestion of Homeplugs.

Streamed a 35Gb 1080p rip over the network to the NUC and I was 100% happy with the performance.

So thank you to everyone ITT

Hi,

Been running my Celeron NUC with OpenELEC 3.0.2 (booting from a USB drive) for a few weeks now. Have both internal Intel WiFi module, and Asus N53 dongle -- Asus seems to be performing *much* better. Cheap Chinese IR receiver seems to work well with Harmony remote. All in all, BD rip plays well streaming from NAS over Wifi, with only an occasional stutter during higher bitrate sequences -- hoping that this PR (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/2607) will eventually make it into mainline, fixing that.

That being said, just got a Plextor mSATA drive -- so now the question becomes, do I go with Win7 or Win8, or stay with OpenELEC, or something else? Assuming I'd want to go to get Netflix/Hulu/Amazon in addition to NAS streaming ...

Thanks in advance, folks!

(2013-06-01, 19:30)alex_a Wrote: [ -> ]Hi,

Been running my Celeron NUC with OpenELEC 3.0.2 (booting from a USB drive) for a few weeks now. Have both internal Intel WiFi module, and Asus N53 dongle -- Asus seems to be performing *much* better. Cheap Chinese IR receiver seems to work well with Harmony remote. All in all, BD rip plays well streaming from NAS over Wifi, with only an occasional stutter during higher bitrate sequences -- hoping that this PR (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/2607) will eventually make it into mainline, fixing that.

That being said, just got a Plextor mSATA drive -- so now the question becomes, do I go with Win7 or Win8, or stay with OpenELEC, or something else? Assuming I'd want to go to get Netflix/Hulu/Amazon in addition to NAS streaming ...

Thanks in advance, folks!

Cool' can you tell us what the power usage is idle land on load?