On 10 January 2016 at 15:11, Dirk <lowph@lotje.com> wrote:
Be carefull, not all Intel Atom chips are supported by the open source drivers, some use a PowerVR graphics engine.
I have an Intel NUC running Arch & Kodi. Very compact and still powerfull. Mine even has an IR port which I can use to power it on with a Logitech remote.
regards, Dirk
Something I really like about (amongst others) the Raspberry Pi is that it supports HDMI-CEC, so you can use the TV remote without any additional hardware and without switching the remote to a different mode. Sadly and quite unforgivably normal graphics cards don't support HDMI-CEC (afaik this goes for Intel integrated graphics too). For me that is enough reason to stick with a Raspberry Pi for my TV. There are USB HDMI-CEC adapters though that should work with linux. There's even an adapter for the Intel NUC specifically [1]. So, if you want CEC support, make sure that it's possible with the hardware you're buying. I would expect a USB CEC adapter to work with all hardware, but I never used it, and there could always be driver issues. -- Maarten [1] https://www.pulse-eight.com/p/154/intel-nuc-hdmi-cec-adapter