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very minimalist hardware for TC?
herrMnnn:
Is there a hardware product out there that will run TC (command line only) out of the box, with just Ethernet, USB, and VGA (or HDMI), for less than AU$200? Preferably using <10W?
I just need to run a python script to download data from a modbus device and write it to a usb drive. It's very little work (less than a second every 30 minutes), most of the time the device will be idle. Data access and admin is via SSH. It's running on a PIII/128mb system now but I want to make it more compact and silent.
A Mini-box Atom system booting TC from a CF hard drive looks like my best option at present, but it's way more processing power, memory and I/O than I need.
Any (constructive) suggestions are welcome.
PS I could probably go the Arm route and work up a system on a Beagleboard or similar, but I've got it working in TC now and I like the way TC operates.
beerstein:
did you check out the $ 50.00 PC board from UK I do not remember its name - Rasberry PI or so?
Then there is the Arduino several mini ITX boards from PC Chips in China
A company named Giada also makes mini PCs - just google on these phrases and see what you can find.
curaga:
Yes, you can get many thin clients used for that price (~50$). Eboxes work too, but they are quite pricey for their limited performance new.
The VIA-based thin clients often idle at <10W and max at <30W, so better than recent Atom boards in idle. This of course depends on the model, etc. The ones having Eden (their sub-1W cpu) are of course lowest power.
Rich:
Hi herrMnnn
Maybe something from here?
http://www.norhtec.com/products/index.html
curaga:
http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/index.shtml
This site has good data on which models work well, and usually with TC too.
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