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Some thoughts:

Some key factors was that the interface should be quite similar on most access devices, making XBMC the natural choice (Get get some sort of WAF).
 
Secondly, besides Music and Movies, recorded TV should be easy to view, and I am not impressed on the Elgato/iTunes Combo, and the Elgato remote (look like and is a terrible piece of China junk - and why does Front Row always starts with the MENU Button on the Apple Remote?

A main issue I discovered along the way, is that XBMC cant play all EyeTV recordings, and that the EyeTV structure and filenaming sucks seen from a XBMC Point-Of-View, as XBMC sees the native filenames and does not know the EyeTV package structure .....  

So my current setup is:

Tanker

Apple er godt, men en meget lukket platform, på Windows maskiner er der ikke meget andet end iTunes.

Der bør være en høj ensartedhed i styring og brug af interfaces, ikke mindst for de andre familiemedlemmers skyld, derfor er XBMC et naturligt valg

Det skal være nemt at optage og se TV på alle devices i Huset.

Det er et problem at Elgato er delvist Apple og ikke åben standard, XBMC kan ofte ikke afspille formatet, derfor har jeg gang i et lille projekt med at konvertere Elgato optagelser til flad MPEG, se ProjektThe iPhone and iPad is used for scheduling recordings in EyeTV, the EyeTV GUI is never used on the MacMini besides setting up stuff and epg.
Exporting all EyeTV recordings to plain H.264 with Handbrake or VLC  and distribute it to the NAS via rsync (so we dont need to trust or do stupid OS/X mounts). This makes all XBMC clients able to see and play the recordings.
How to setup Export:

The export can be done with several applications, I am using Handbrake with the Command Line Interface (CLI) and VLC (to try and get subtitles out also, as Handbrake cant do this for some channels)

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