Owen Smith wrote: > My desktop linux compilation box at work is barely any different to a > Raspberry Pi in complexity, in fact it runs less software than the > average Pi I have been told since there is no gui on my work compile > box. > > I don't believe it took you minutes (which I read as "less than 10 > minutes") to setup a Pi itself from scratch, LMS, a piCorePlayer and > connect to your music library on a NAS. It takes me longer than that to > get things sorted even when I know what I'm doing. Upgrading LMS on > Windows takes about 5 minutes, because that's how long it takes to fix > the at least one inevitable SNAFU that occurs like having to power cycle > the Receiver when it won't play after the upgrade. > > Now if you'd said less than an hour I would believe you.
Heh, for me minutes = a period of time less than an hour :) The longest single step is probably burning the image to the SD card. Configuring the Pi uses a web interface and really is quick. The first scan of the music files can take a while, depending on the size of your library. But my point is that piCorePlayer is pretty robust and doesn't need much attention once it's running - mine runs 24/7. Upgrading LMS is pretty straightforward using a web interface, and hasn't caused any problems to me so far. Definitely worth looking into piCorePlayer - there's a lengthy thread in the Linux/Unix forum. Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi 3/piCoreplayer/LMS7.9 with files on QNAP TS-239 Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 > Mission 752 (plus Rega Planar 3 and Naim CD3) PiCorePlayer(Pi2) with touchscreen and IQAudIO DAC+>Sennheisers 2 x Squeezebox Radios, 1 X Squeezebox 3 (retired) *Office:* LMS7.9 running on WiFi MyPassport drive > piCorePlayer(PiB)/HiFiBerryDAC > Amptastic Amplifier SqueezePad, iPeng as controllers last.fm/user/GrumpyBob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Grumpy Bob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104672 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
