Hi I am not sure is this is the best place to start my topic.
A little history, I am using macOS from a long time (headless Mac mini) as my main music source since at least 12 years, always with I tunes and almost always in conjunction with audirvana, the system work perfectly without big troubles for several years. Around 6-7 years ago I start to experiment with RPI w/Picore and 7 touchscreen, mainly because I have kids and I dont want give them access to mobiles or tablet (only way to put Mac mini to play some music). The same RPI can be used as endpoint of the mini trough AirPlay. The RPI reads the backup of the Mac mini music files in a Synology NAS, which also ran LMS (pinkdot version). With the years I also added some Sonos speaker, and a marantz AV receiver in different rooms. Since then I had been using playing music around the house in three different way according to the circumstances (Sonos app, LMS and RPI, or macOS with airfoil). Finally this year, after read that I can not install newer versions of LMS in my NAS, I decided to buy a new RPI 4 to run LMS exclusively, and I start to looking the way to make everything most compatible. Then I gave a try to airplay bridge...after a couple of days and with some help is this forum (Phillipe mainly....thanks a lot!!) I was able to have everything up and running, finally I can LMS ecosystem in my entire house!!! Since then I add a argon case for the RPI 4 and added 3 new RPI3 with 3.5 touch screeen next to my airplay devices (Sonos an Marantz AV), these 3 devices run picore 7.0 with LMS and Squeezelite and Shairport disable, and are used as touch control of an Airplay devices (standalone or in sync with other player). Finally today I am using mainly LMS ecosystem...Sonos app was forget! macOS is still working and Tims the main source in my main audio equipment (Naim gear w/10 Tannoy speakers). All previous only to says thanks to everyone who makes these possible!!! And also for a new question, regarding power management, in my RPIs that work as player or touch screen control I added a switch to turn on or off as I wish/need....but the RPI4 running LMS is on 24x7...¿is it possible to improve these? Something like sleep the hardware to reduce power consumption, as this is the server and is in a central rack I dont want turn on and off every time someone want to play music...but in these days I think I always good to save some energy, even if is it a little. Any idea, comment or suggestion is welcome! Thanks, Cristóbal Ps: sorry for my English!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tobal2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68995 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114122
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