If you are just interested in recommendations for XBMC Remote controls, jump to 'HTPC Remotes' chapter.If you are just interested in tips for better organizing your media library, jump to 'Setting up your XBMC library' chapter.If you already have Windows and XMBC running on your machine and they are setup the way you want, jump to 'Making XBMC library sharable' chapter.

If you won't use OpenELEC or run Windows from USB stick, jump to 'Setting up HTPC, Windows and XBMC' chapter.

If you are not interested in my previous setup, my thoughts on various available devices or how I've ended up with building custom HTPC, jump to 'Running OpenELEC' chapter.

So, if you are looking for specific info, here is the overview of sections: This article is here for you, not the other way around. Navigating articleĪs an avid reader of online articles, the thing I hate most is reading through tons of text just to get to the info I'm looking for (See that? Sentence with 0 useful information? ).

Coding at work during the day, scouring the web during the night. So, you can imagine what happened when I decided that I need to finally setup proper HTPC so that my family can watch content we have on big screen without me requiring to intervine. I'm still cursing Seagate for their marketing gimmicks that made me spend $230 on damn Seagate Central 4TB, instead of just buying normal external HDD for $100 less and plugging it into ASUS RT-N66U router. It's even worse - most of the time you just end up being a bigger sucker ). The more money spent in most cases doesn't equal to getting exactly what you wanted. But, as it turned out - unfortunatelly it doesn't work that way. When I was younger, I thought that once I have more money I'll probably drop the habbit. or even worse - to wait for something to come out. only to finally conclude that I would probably be better off looking into another alternative. go through every supposed doubt someone posted on some obscure forum. dig up trustworthy benchmarks and comparisons. First I would read all the possible reviews. Ever since I was a teenager whenever it was time to purchase a new piece of hardware, it turned into at least week-long ordial. I always end up getting less sleep when I'm buying some tech.

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