Star Cloud PCG02U Ubuntu 14.04 TV Stick Review

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Star Cloud PCG02U is the first Ubuntu product from MeLE. You can either related the stick directly into an HDMI port, or using the provided female to female adapter through an HDMI cable. I’ve opted to insert the device straight into the AUX port of my Onkyo A/V receiver itself related to my Flixy TV Stick reviews. Since there’s only one USB host port, USB keyboard and mouse will not be convenient since it would add a USB hub, so I went with Logitech MK270r wireless mouse & keyboard combo instead. You possibly can both used Ethernet or WiFi for Internet connectivity, and that i opted for the latter for many of the review, however WiFi is also working advantageous. The ultimate step is to connect the power supply into the micro USB port, and boot the device which takes round 20 seconds. Power consumption is a low 3.4 watts in idle mode, and 0.4 watts while powered off.



The system automatically login to Unity desktop shell with person "pp" with out password. So you’ll most likely want to go to "User Accounts" to Unlock the settings, and both add a password to pp, or create a brand new user. Time is set to New Year by default, so I modified that to match my native, as effectively because the Clock setting to show the time using a 24-hour clock, as a substitute of the default 12-hour clock. The obtain server for updates is configured to use servers in China by default. It will possible be gradual in most international locations, so you’ll need to pick out a server on your country, or just use the "Select Best Server" feature. I also disabled "Online search" and eliminated "Amazon" icon from the dashboard. It’s not shocking that they went with Linux 3.Sixteen because it was the one choice to get HDMI audio until not too long ago. MeLE did use Linuxium image possibly with some modifications.



MeLE additionally created pp consumer, but I’m undecided they did other enhancements. I nonetheless had 20GB free storage after putting in the newest improve, with LibreOffice and Firefox pre-put in. The system reports 1.9GB memory and a 1.9GB swap partition that’s barely used. You may only see 159 MB free reminiscence, simply due to lot of it is used as buffer/cache, not because Ubuntu is about to run out of memory. I’m only displaying one beneath. Finally, I’ve installed hardinfo mostly to confirm the previous findings. I’ll first use Phoronix to benchmark the TV stick. I additionally installed psensor to monitor the CPU tempetature. Before working the same benchmarks that was run on a number of ARM Linux growth boards. So lastly we've got the results for each lowpower and Flixy TV Stick reviews efficiency governors, and the outcomes usually are not that a lot different. Let’s see a few of the results in comparison with ARM boards. Please word that "MeUbuntu 14.04.3" is actually the take a look at for PCG02U in powersave mode.



First Star Cloud PCG02 is faster than ARM boards in some, however not all of the tests. John the ripper multi-threaded password cracker nonetheless works greatest on Banana Pi M3 octa-core ARM Cortex A7 board. But Himeno benchmark is method a lot faster on Intel than ARM. Himeno web page mentions that version 1.2.0 "use AVX2 by default if available", so whereas the test still used model 1.10, and I didn't find x86 optimization in the supply code, it’s fairly possible the compiler makes use a SIMD instruction on Intel, but not on ARM, or that ARM NEON shouldn't be fairly as good as SSE2, AVX… FLAC audio encoding can be confirming the higher performance of the Intel platform right here, although the gap to ODROID-XU4 just isn't as broad as for Himeno benchmark. Audio encoding would also profit from SIMD instructions so that will explain it. I examined both Ethernet and WiFi with iperf.