Hi guys, thank you very much for yor feedback. Lots of details to research there :)
I´m amazed at the amount of work you put into this.
Altough I see I am somewhat on track on what my options might be, and I will also go through those links and threads, let me put the question this way:
S905x3 was sort of my first choice, just because I heard some good comments about it and also have a couple of Odroids, so they are somewhat familiar to me.... But I just read @balbes150 seems to be favoring RKs over AML S905x3, is that just a personal choice or has RK a clear edge on Linux on an equivalent SOC? (I know RK3399 is on a higher level, closer to an S922 I guess)
And, AW´s .... are those any good at all for my "project"?
@mradalbert
That one looks very interesting... Yeah, I wanna go rather cheap because A) for more expensive devices I have my Odroids, and B) part of the "experiment" is about how far can I go with inexpensive yet easily avaiable devices. And C) I know I might get ripped off in this purchase, heh.
That is also why getting close to the cost of, say, a RPi3 or RPi4 doesn´t fully makes sense in this project as, for the same money, I´d expect a SBC to be more reliable than a TV Box when running Linux .
Granted, perhaps the more expensive the TV Boxes *are* as reliable as an SBC, but software wise I think they will require much more work (or learning) from my part. ( @balbes150 the guru probably knows a ton about that :) )
Thanks in advance!
MadOp.