Best Method for XBMC on a TV?

[b_o_b]

Ports on board of the cubox i4 - I am not talking about the main board - has everything you need for using it as a very capable XBMC player. Users on a technical Dutch forum were unanimously enthusiastic about the cubox.  

RPI has the largest community and is the ultimate tool for tweaking/building projects, but if you just want a more powerful XBMC player the c-i4 is definitely superior. I am thinking of buying one. 

 

[Garrett]

I'd never heard of the cubox but it has certainly piqued my interest, it does look like it's not quite as plug n' play as the Amazon Fire TV though.. is there an ETA on it's UK availability?

 

[b_o_b]

https://www.newit.co.uk/shop/SolidRun/CuBox-i4Pro

There are a couple of images available for the cubox. From what I have understood they all work quite nice, not very hard to install but the advise is to stay away from Android. 

http://www.solid-run.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=815

Community is pretty active btw http://www.solid-run.com/community/ lot of posts from today. Seems like a nice and helpful community. 

 

[Null]

is there an ETA on it's UK availability?

23rd Oct for the Fire TV. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00KQEJBSW/

 

[Garrett]

is there an ETA on it's UK availability?

23rd Oct for the Fire TV. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00KQEJBSW/

Thanks, but I meant on the cubox

 

[Null]

^ I know, I just thought I'd add that particular nugget of info because someone else may have found it handy.

 

[Night]

@b_o_b: Do you know if OpenElec works alright with the CuBox? From what i've seen there's a port but still in Alpha.

 

[b_o_b]

@b_o_b: Do you know if OpenElec works alright with the CuBox? From what i've seen there's a port but still in Alpha.

Not sure, but it seems already quite good (based on comments I would say beta and very useable - but nightly builds can break stuff). OpenElec and Geekbox have the most active threads.

OpenElec

http://www.solid-run.com/community/topic1498.html

From what I have read from another - Dutch - source geekbox was advised

Geekbox

http://www.solid-run.com/community/topic641.htm