Special QQ Edition Kodi Media Player: (Round 1 now closed)

[Marplot]

Can you toss the power supply info in the first post so it is easier to locate as needed? Thanks.

 

[HomerJAU]

Can you toss the power supply info in the first post so it is easier to locate as needed? Thanks.

Done. But don't buy Power Supplies now. We don't yet have final NUC pricing from sellers. Wait until we give the go ahead.

 

[Nick Trewhella]

You’re on the list. Where are you located!

Melbourne, Essendon to be precise..

 

[HomerJAU]

Excellent, close by. I'm in Elsternwick.

 

[jamesc]

Totally missed this thread until today. Very generous of you Garry! I love my LibreElec/NUC setup that I built after reading some of your threads. The new interface looks fantastic in the pics.

I'm happy to help configure some in the US if you need help in future waves.

 

[HomerJAU]

I'm happy to help configure some in the US if you need help in future waves.

Thanks for the offer, good to know we have an experienced LibreElec/NUC builder as a fallback if Paul wants a break).

 

[beerking]

Bit late to the party, only just seen this thread.
This is a fantastic offer Garry.
Count me in for Round 2

I wonder if other UK based folk have missed this thread?

 

[HomerJAU]

There’s at least one more member in UK for round two, one in EU.

 

[Scott65]

Please count me in for Round 2.

 

[HomerJAU]

Please count me in for Round 2.

Rounds are US resident builds.

Here in AU, I have NUCs arriving soon and uncommitted NUCs to ship in next couple of weeks. Your name is now one of those! They are all BEH style.

 

[Scott65]

Rounds are US resident builds.

Here in AU, I have NUCs arriving soon and uncommitted NUCs to ship in next couple of weeks. Your name is now one of those! They are all BEH style.

Thanks Garry.

 

[roundhousequad]

I know nothing about this. wanted to run kodi on my Mac but I'm interested in this also.

 

[HomerJAU]

I know nothing about this. wanted to run kodi on my Mac but I'm interested in this also.

The NUC has a Linux based operating system, cut back to a minimum to run Kodi (it’s the LibreElec open source project). No knowledge of Linux is required as Kodi is the only user interface. The LibreElec slogan is: Just Enough OS to run Kodi. It’s tiny and use 512MB of the drive,

Users can easily access files on the NUC through a SMB network connection with a simple File Explorer interface and user name /password if required. (and Copy updates, or your own artist images etc to the NUC or the customise the UI if you want to, its just XML files - simple text files you can edit in notepad or other simple text editing app)

User media is normally stored on attached external USB drives, NAS server or even media stored on a PC or Mac via a network connection. (WiFi or Ethernet). Easiest is the external USB drives(s) option.

It can be controlled via a supplied Bluetooth remote, USB keyboard and/or mouse or any Apple iPhone or iPad (free apps) or Android phone or tablet (free apps). When I first started using my iPad screen to browse my music collection and play and queue my music for the evening, I thought “Oh my. If someone had demoed this in a HiFi store a couple years ago I would have paid 2 or 3 thousand bucks for this system in my home” Seriously this is the bees knees. If you already own an iPad, even the cheapest model you have every album, track and music video at your fingertips. Literally! No TV or monitor required to play music!

The big advantage this NUC has over a MAC is this will be a complete setup and customised for our hobby. Surround music!

A tiny media player hiding in your equipment rack or on a cabinet top is silent and starts like a BD player, no login etc like a ‘normal’ computer. Remote controlled. It’s really much more like BD player than a computer, and using a Mac or PC is not a great experience at all IMO.

 

[HomerJAU]

@HomerJAU, I'm in the UK and potentially interested in buying. I could have it shipped to a EU country if it worked easier. I have had a MeLe n5105 (windows) fanless NUC waiting in my drawers for 2 years until I find the time to set it up for streaming Atmos from my NAS. It's still sealed. If copying your drive image onto it was an option, I would be happy to have a go at it or find help locally. Happy to pay you either way.

I think I missed you. Apologies. We have some UK and EU member signed up for Round 2 builds.

If you want to join in, please let me know and we can get estimates on shipping (at your cost) if you want a prebuilt solution.

Let me know.

 

[roundhousequad]

The NUC has a Linux based operating system, cut back to a minimum to run Kodi (it’s the LibreElec open source project). No knowledge of Linux is required as Kodi is the only user interface. The LibreElec slogan is: Just Enough OS to run Kodi. It’s tiny and use 512MB of the drive,

Users can easily access files on the NUC through a SMB network coonection with a simple File Explorer interface and user name /password if required. (Copy updates to the NUC etc or the customise the UI if you want)

User media is normally stored on attached external USB drives, NAS server or even media stored on a PC or Mac via a network connection. (WiFi or Ethernet). Easiest is the external USB drives(s) option.

It can be controlled via a supplied Bluetooth remote, USB keyboard and/or mouse or any Apple iPhone or iPad (free apps) or Android phone or tablet (free apps). When I first started using my iPad screen to browse my music collection and play and queue my music for the evening, I thought “Oh my. If someone had demoed this in a HiFi store a couple years ago I would have paid 2 or 3 thousand bucks for this system in my home” Seriously this is the bees knees. If you already own an iPad, even the cheapest model you have every album, track and music video at your fingertips. Literally! No TV or monitor required to play music!

The big advantage this NUC has over a MAC is this will be a complete setup and customised for our hobby. Surround music!

A tiny media player hiding in your equipment rack in on a cabinet top is silent and starts like a BD player, no login etc like a ‘normal’ computer. Remote controlled. It’s really much more like BD player than a computer, and using a Mac or PC is not a great experience at all IMO.

Ok another idea. using this in a car?

 

[HomerJAU]

Ok another idea. using this in a car?

These NUCs need 19V dc so maybe not an ideal device for a car. A Raspberry Pi 5 or an Android Kodi player would be better suited. Lower power consumption and low voltage too, then something to get HDMI pcm into your amplifier system

 

[Veganfloyd]

I think I missed you. Apologies. We have some UK and EU member signed up for Round 2 builds.

If you want to join in, please let me know and we can get estimates on shipping (at your cost) if you want a prebuilt solution.

Let me know.

Thanks. I thought that round 1 was not available for Europe, so I didn't follow up.

I am wondering if it would be feasible to wipe the drive of my MeLe n5105 clean and clone the image of the drive from your NUC builds (possible to share online?) onto it? I would be happy to pay/donate to the project.

If not, I would like a NUC shipped to UK please. I'm not in a major rush, in case there was any hope for finding a local QQer to help you out with the builds.

 

[HomerJAU]

I am wondering if it would be feasible to wipe the drive of my MeLe n5105 clean and clone the image of the drive from your NUC builds

Looking at those Specs it looks possible.

I'll leave it to you to do a web search to see if anyone has run LibreElec on that box. If nothing can be found, see if you can find Linux users.

https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/25719-performance-on-celeron-n5105-is-quite-poor/

It looks very promising. Worth a try. If it doesn't work you can then get an Intel NUC. But you'd need to be quick to get of from US as NUC8 stocks are depleting.

Check the UK 2nd hand market, ebay etc

 

[reedfoot]

Add me to Round 2, please. It's about time I tried to join the 20th Century, now that we're a quarter way into the 21st.

 

[HomerJAU]

You are on the list.

I’m going to call for deposits soon so we can secure enough NUCs to fulfill requests. The cutoff for Round 2 will be a smidge over 20, NUCs, we may do 25.