Acer Aspire Revo R3600, £159.95 delivered to Ireland from Ebuyer

event

event wrote: »

i tell a lie, havent figured it out at all.

now when i go into the library section there is nothing there.
the files are on the scer though, i can access them through the file manager, they play through that way but thats not the way to use it at all.

jesus i thought it would just pick up everything easily, maybe im doing it wrong though

They're on the Acer but not showing up in the Library? Did you scan them to the library in the first place? If No then scan them if Yes now that you've moved them you may need to delete then rescan them because they have new locations!

event

it looks like the library mode i cant set up.
can see them in file modem fine. tried to scan them there and it looks like it cant connect to the internet.
i connect over wireless, any ideas on how to set that up? the acer has wifi built in

event

event wrote: »

it looks like the library mode i cant set up.
can see them in file modem fine. tried to scan them there and it looks like it cant connect to the internet.
i connect over wireless, any ideas on how to set that up? the acer has wifi built in

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=81858

mabozarichie

I thought this thread was about the Acer Revo bargain, not XBMC help desk.

This thread needs to close....:mad:

mabozarichie

mabozarichie wrote: »

I thought this thread was about the Acer Revo bargain, not XBMC help desk.

This thread needs to close....:mad:

You could always just unsubscribe y'know!

event

Deleted User wrote: »

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=81858

ill try that later, cant get it working either, the first bit where it asks me to type

dmesg | tail

i cant get the | to come up on the command line

mabozarichie wrote: »

I thought this thread was about the Acer Revo bargain, not XBMC help desk.

This thread needs to close....:mad:

i dont see what the problem is?

event

event wrote: »

ill try that later, cant get it working either, the first bit where it asks me to type

dmesg | tail

i cant get the | to come up on the command line

That reminds me!! Yes I had the same trouble. I was up around 3am trying to get everything set up and couldn't get past typing an "|"!!!

I gave up and just typed the "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt" as in the example and that worked for me. I didn't have an hard disk attached as well though so that might wreck it for you....maybe try sdb2? I can't help as I'm no Linux expert!

Maybe somebody else might know how to get the "|" on the Acer keyboard?

Goolay

So now that I've finally decided to get one of these bad boys (to run XBMC live) I see eBuyer have stopped delivery to Ireland. Bah.

Where's the next best/cheapest place to pick one up?

cheers

vibe666

i got an extra 2gb stick of ram for my R3610 (thinking there was 1x2gb already in it) and it turns out mine had 2x1gb sticks so i have 3gb instead of the 4gb i was after. still, with the revo only able to handle 3.25gb at the hardware level, i've only really lost a tiny bit anyway.

the difference in performance in Win7 is significant though, if anyone wants to use win7 on their R3610 i'd highly recommend the extra RAM, it's well worth it.

ALL my 720p video plays nice and smoothly now in WMP, VLC & XBMC within windows (had problems with *some* videos before being jerky) and the whole thing is generally more snappy.

1080p video is still a little jerky in windows, but i imagine that XBMC Live would handle it fine if i dropped windows (as XBMC Live does 720p fine with 2gb RAM). since i don't have a 1080p TV though and windows has become invaluable to me, i'll be sticking with what i have for now.

it's all good though, i just thought people would like to know what a difference it makes.

mabozarichie wrote: »

I thought this thread was about the Acer Revo bargain, not XBMC help desk.

This thread needs to close....:mad:

26 posts and you're already running the place. :rolleyes:

vibe666

Dublin579 wrote: »

So now that I've finally decided to get one of these bad boys (to run XBMC live) I see eBuyer have stopped delivery to Ireland. Bah.

Where's the next best/cheapest place to pick one up?

cheers

probably ebay at this stage if you want an R3610, since a lot of places haves stopped selling them. pretty sure since the r3700 has come out the r3600 series has stopped being made.

Goolay

Thanks vibe666,

Doesn't have to be the r3600 if r3700 is better?

Budget is about €250, thinking of possibly building a basic htpc myself also

cheers

vibe666

there's nothing wrong with the r3700, if you can find it cheap enough.

there's a good review of it here: http://www.mediaplayerworld.com/index.php?topic=3532.0

it also mentions xbmc as well.

Goolay

Thanks again.

Would this be a decent price? (including shipping)

http://cgi.ebay.ie/ACER-Aspire-Revo-R3700-320G-2G-RAM-Mini-PC-Free-Dos-/270669484829?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f0528931d

cheers

vibe666

Looks decent to me, if there's no special offers anywhere.

Might be worth seeing if you could get it cheaper delivered from ebuyer to a friends in the north or UK and either collect it from there or get it delivered.

Johnny Storm

mabozarichie wrote: »

I thought this thread was about the Acer Revo bargain, not XBMC help desk.

This thread needs to close....:mad:

Well, you thought wrong....
This is one of the best threads EVER :mad:

Amalgam

Dublin579 wrote: »

Thanks vibe666,

Doesn't have to be the r3600 if r3700 is better?

Budget is about €250, thinking of possibly building a basic htpc myself also

cheers

This might be more up to date.. it looks nice, Engadget reported a 'special' price during April, not sure if this is it though..

Xtreamer Ultra

http://shop.xtreamer.net/products/Xtreamer-Ultra.html

lordgoat

Dublin579 wrote: »

So now that I've finally decided to get one of these bad boys (to run XBMC live) I see eBuyer have stopped delivery to Ireland. Bah.

Where's the next best/cheapest place to pick one up?

cheers

http://www.ebuyer.com/help/delivery

Have they? Still listed on their site?

deadduck

sorry if this is a stupid question, i see these have a PCI slot for expansion. Does anyone know if it's possible to fit a satellite card (ie. the blackgold bgt3595) to one of these?

lordgoat

lordgoat wrote: »

http://www.ebuyer.com/help/delivery

Have they? Still listed on their site?

According to the second post here they won't post anymore.

event

i had to get mine delivered to a friend up north

vibe666

deadduck wrote: »

sorry if this is a stupid question, i see these have a PCI slot for expansion. Does anyone know if it's possible to fit a satellite card (ie. the blackgold bgt3595) to one of these?

it's a mini-pci slot and it's already taken up with the wireless card.

afaik, the only way to get a satellite feed directly into the revo would be with a usb based card.

deadduck

vibe666 wrote: »

it's a mini-pci slot and it's already taken up with the wireless card.

afaik, the only way to get a satellite feed directly into the revo would be with a usb based card.

that's a shame, would have made it a near perfect all round system. oh well, thanks for the info.

vibe666

deadduck wrote: »

that's a shame, would have made it a near perfect all round system. oh well, thanks for the info.

that doesn't mean you can't do it, it just means you'll have your dongle hanging out. :pac:

deadduck

vibe666 wrote: »

that doesn't mean you can't do it, it just means you'll have your dongle hanging out. :pac:

From the little bit of reading i've done on USB sat tuners (from watty on another thread), it seems the only option is an externally powered tuner, as USB only delivers 5 volts, whereas satellite needs 13 and 18 volts for correct operation. Don't fancy using anything that requires external power, really looking for an all in one. I'll probably end up building one, which is ok by me

vibe666

just as an FYI for anyone still looking to get a Revo, assuming you can get around the Irish delivery issues just recently ebuyer have the 2gb/250gb R3700 for £185 at the moment which is a pretty good deal imho.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/236579

Tedious Bore

this any good....
http://www.ebuyer.com/344479-acer-aspire-revo-rl70-nettop-dt-sj4ek-001

.....and is xbmc still what people would recommend?

Supercell

Its ideal for XBMC, hard to beat at that price point. I see there is one with 2GB ram and wired keyboard for £178 on ebuyer also. If you are going to be using a remote with XBMC then the wired or not keyboard isnt worth the extra. 2GB of ram should be plenty for Linux based XBMC

Quaderno

Didn't they stop selling stuff to Ireland at some stage? I thought there was a problem with the electrical recycling or taxes or something like that...

Why not just buy an Apple TV?

Tedious Bore

Deleted User wrote: »

Why not just buy an Apple TV?

is that definitely better yeah?
are there not things this nettop box can do that appleTV doesnt do?

am new to this stuff and have just googled boxee box and Roku with mixed reviews. not in any rush to buy really, just looking into it

I don't think it's "better" (the ATV might not support 1080p) but it will run XBMC for you after jailbreaking it. Lots of people on the XBMC forums using them. Might be your only option too as I don't think eBuyer ship here anymore.

Tedious Bore

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't think it's "better" (the ATV might not support 1080p) but it will run XBMC for you after jailbreaking it. Lots of people on the XBMC forums using them. Might be your only option too as I don't think eBuyer ship here anymore.

cool, thanks for the info

Supercell

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't think it's "better" (the ATV might not support 1080p) but it will run XBMC for you after jailbreaking it. Lots of people on the XBMC forums using them. Might be your only option too as I don't think eBuyer ship here anymore.

You could try http://www.deliverme.ie/ and the free shipping option on the ebuyer site to keep costs down as one option I guess.

I have an ATV2 jailbroken with XBMC and while it is OK for most DVD stuff, with many mkv's or high action scenes on DVD format it freezes up. Forget killasampla , its not happening. The ATV just isn't up to it.
Secondly the ATV 2 needs to be rebooted every once in a while to clear out cache or it starts locking up, which is a bit of a pain if you have to use a tethered boot.
That said I got an ATV2 for my Dad and he loves it for the internet streaming etc which is what he wanted. My wife likes our one for streaming Chinese TV shows.

But for the main living room one, I would go with a nettop and the RL70 is a pretty good choice at that price point. Dunno if it would do killasampla though, anyone?, i'd be tempted myself if it does