Thanks erland. I, too, have returned to find myself somewhat out of touch with what is going on. (Currently living in a flat barely big enough to warrant a single stereo, let alone a multi-room setup!)
I've been looking at various ARM boards and wondering about the possibilities on each. I've currently got the RaspPi and BeagleBoard Black. Kickstarter projects I'm backing are Parallella and Udoo - both chucking out simple ARM board around the $100 mark. Comparison page 'here' (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/435742530/udoo-android-linux-arduino-in-a-tiny-single-board/posts/489219) - yes it's bigging up the Udoo, but it's a useful table. As I've been looking into the various player projects, I've been wondering how generic any of them are. For example, is the Community project fixed on the Wandboard or is there an ability to run on other similar boards? I'm not asking for the projects to change or anything, but a project that is based on ARMv7 instruction set might be able to separate out the core parts of the project from the board-specific parts. Setting the Rasp Pi to one side, the common theme of these boards is ARMv7 instruction set. All the ARM v7 boards are cheap and have more than enough grunt to provide basic playback facilities to Squeezebox Duet levels. I guess I'm just wondering if it's worth looking to widen the hardware scope of the projects to be able to run them on different boards. There's certainly a case for running a powerful board that can both serve LMS, playback streams, digital output, HDMI output, rich control menus, IR control etc. But there's also a case for the most brutally simple board that is only capable of simple audio stream playback. Cheers Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ drunkahol's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17854 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98886 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
