[abollaert]

Nice writeup. I've got a similar setup, however, I grew a bit annoyed with Raspbmc, as it's a bit slow as your library gets bigger. So I'd recommend an Atom box to handle this part (I'm using an Ion330 from Asrock, but there's probably better hardware available for this nowadays).

[gmontard]

Well Sam did lot of speed improvements lately, and the Theme I talk about (Amber) is efficient on the Pi. Also keep in mind the Pi is $50 compared to at least $200 for a complete Ion setup, right?

[abollaert]

Yeah but it's not the UI that's laggy. It's mostly the library updates. I've got a Raspberry that takes 15 minutes to do a library scan, while my Ion takes about a minute, maybe 2. It depends on your use case of course, but when you use sickbeard, you end up doing library updates almost daily.

[gmontard]

You don't need to do a full scan each time. If you enable SickeBeard XBMC notification it will only add the new Show without updating the whole library...