2014-01-06, 06:53
Okay, so I've got my i5 Haswell NUC officially in production and thought I would share my details:
I realize the NUC hardware is slightly overkill for Openlec, but I figured I may want to dual boot some day. Here's the status:
The good:
The okay:
The bad:
Also worth noting that I did not muck with any rendering settings -- basically the default took it. Colors, including black levels look good and there seem to be no skipped frames. Actually not to sure what decoder is being used.
- i5 NUC
- 2x4gb Crucial
- 60gb Intel MSATA
- Openelec Nightly 16808
- Onkyo HT-RC160
- Sony KDL-52XBR9
- Harmony 890 w/ RF
I realize the NUC hardware is slightly overkill for Openlec, but I figured I may want to dual boot some day. Here's the status:
The good:
- Overall, production (wife) ready
- Starts up with remote just fine <6-7sec
- Plays Blu-ray vc-1 remuxes, 1080p h.264s, and all other modern content just fine
- Passthru for all audio codecs working well.
- Very responsive to the remote, even over the RF bridge. No unnecessary repeats
- Shutdown from the remote DOES work natively. This is the Harmony "Power Toggle" associated with a generic Windows Media Center PC. Seems to do exactly as the button on the top does; gracefully shuts down openelec and powers off. I used no fixes to support this beyond the autostart remote fix.
The okay:
- Did the autostart remote fix on the post 1, worked well
- 1080i TS mpeg2 content is a bit blocky
- Needed to add a 4sec delay between AV receiver start up and NUC start up with the Harmony remote in order for Openelec/NUC to detect the display and chose the right resolution.
The bad:
- Shutdown from the GUI does not work
Also worth noting that I did not muck with any rendering settings -- basically the default took it. Colors, including black levels look good and there seem to be no skipped frames. Actually not to sure what decoder is being used.