Hi ! It depends on how easy and integrated you want your experience to be ;)
The raspberry pi is classic SoC to use for such a purpose, there are a lot of software and guides that you can use and take inspiration from for your project. In particular, the Retro-pi project will let you play classic games on a raspberry pi, and Kodi is a nice integrated media center distribution. Sadly: - the raspberry pi still uses some proprietary components that GNU Guix can not take into account (yet ?) - some features, especially games, are closed-source, so outside of the scope of GNU Guix. My advice would be to look at what people are doing on raspberry pies, and replicate what you need. >From a purely function over form perspective, I think you can replicate 90% of the features of Kodi with VLC. It can do streaming, can read any media format, and is globally awesome. Also take a look at https://gitlab.com/guix-gaming-channels/games for (sadly closed source, but what can you do ?) integrating video games in your Guix setup. Please post somewhere about what you do, this is an itch I intend to scratch someday and I'll be happy to read about your efforts, Happy hacking :) Edouard. Blake Shaw <bl...@nonconstructivism.com> writes: > Hiya Guix! > > I just got a TV and want to put together a little SoC home media server for > it (perhaps with beaglebone black, as that appears to be the recommended > SoC for Guix). Has anyone had any experience with this? Thoughts? > I figure it could be a fun use of `Guix Deploy`, but I've never put > together a SoC media server before, so I'm not sure what packages to > peek at, or what "out of the box" (re: raspbian etc) options are > available. > > Seems like this could be some cool shoes for Guix to fill! > > ez, > blake