2015-12-18, 16:41
Thanks for the replies! You are correct - I have found the Minix on eBay - a little bit cheaper than the Shield as well. Apparently it also works with the Harmony, however there doesn't seem to be a complete profile available for it yet.
Somehow I still don't trust those Android Boxes compared a HTPC running Openelec. I bought my father a Amazon Fire Tv since he needs Kodi and also streams TV but we weren't satisfied with Kodis performance on it. It didn't play all the videos from various Camcorders so we ended up buying a Braswell Box just for Openelec.
My use case is also a bit complicated as I have a NAS that goes into standby when Kodi IP adress is no longer reachable on the network. When Kodi starts up it will send a Magic Packet (Wake-on-LAN) to the NAS and all the SMB / NFS shares are instantly available. This wouldn't work with the Fire TV since there is no shutdown option - it's always online. How about the Shield and the Minix? I kinda expect their behaviour to be the same - then again the Minix Original Remote has something that looks like a power button. Can anyone please clarify this for me?
Somehow I still don't trust those Android Boxes compared a HTPC running Openelec. I bought my father a Amazon Fire Tv since he needs Kodi and also streams TV but we weren't satisfied with Kodis performance on it. It didn't play all the videos from various Camcorders so we ended up buying a Braswell Box just for Openelec.
My use case is also a bit complicated as I have a NAS that goes into standby when Kodi IP adress is no longer reachable on the network. When Kodi starts up it will send a Magic Packet (Wake-on-LAN) to the NAS and all the SMB / NFS shares are instantly available. This wouldn't work with the Fire TV since there is no shutdown option - it's always online. How about the Shield and the Minix? I kinda expect their behaviour to be the same - then again the Minix Original Remote has something that looks like a power button. Can anyone please clarify this for me?