Any PlayOn Home users here? Among the system requirements, they say a "CPU with a passmark score of 500 or higher." In my brief look at cheap machines, sellers don't list passmark scores (although I've been out of the PC world for 15 years).
Is this something that would run on a super-cheap machine? (Yes, I know of PlayOn Cloud. I have a question on that I started in another thread)
Don't even bother with Home. I've had a hell of issues to deal with Home. Recordings randomly stopped, scheduled recordings randomly fail, lack of cross-platform options (Home is Windows only), etc, etc.
If you want to try Home, you can get a system but you need A LOT of memory so that Home can work
PlayOn Home works for me. It uses a lot of CPU, so doing something else on the same machine that also uses a lot of CPU will likely cause problems. I'm running Windows 10 with:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.40 GHz
However, I now know not to run my backup program while PlayOn is running.
You might find this helpful - https://support.playon.tv/hc/en-us/community/posts/20739874737815-PlayOn-Hardware-Recording-Guide
PlayOn Home also works well for me. I have found that since PlayOn moved some of the recording off Chrome and onto Edge, that I needed a beefier CPU than I used to need. I was running PlayOn on a 4160T Celeron based mini PC but recordings failed constantly trying to record HD. I moved to an AMD 5560U based mini PC with 32GB RAM and run Channels, Docker, Plex, and PlayOn concurrenlty without issue. The AMD 5560U is EOL now but 5825U or 5850U based are readily available at more cost than the cheaper N100 based systems.
Thanks for the info. That link is very helpful. I guess if I decide to buy something, I’ll still be holding my breath the first time I try it with PlayOn.