Archive for the 'media players' Category

Firmware

One of the tv cards in my mythtv backend requires the driver to load firmware at boot time. The driver for this card was crashing repeatedly so I have been keeping an eye out for updates. The firmware received an upgrade a few months ago but it was still crashing and it was weeks before I realized that the old firmware was still being loaded. It turns out that you have to actually remove the power from the system before it will reload the firmware. A reboot is not sufficient. This really needs to be in BIG letters somewhere on the linuxtv site.

Anyway I now have a whole month of uptime on the backend. This is only the second time I have had the system so stable in the 3-4 years I have been running mythtv.

Revo Pico Wi-Fi

I just got a Revo Pico Wi-Fi.

It is an FM and internet radio and will also play music from a windows file share and a UPnP server. It is portable, has a single built in speaker and rechargeable battery. As an internet radio it is fantastic, with instant access to over 6000 stations it easier to setup and use than my Roku Soundbridge. Unfortunately, it will not talk to my firefly music server but hopefully they are adding UPnP support to firefly soon.