Sounds cool, keep us posted with your experiences. Nathaniel C. Steele Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM
On 6/28/2012 9:22 AM, Wayne Merricks wrote: > Hi all, > > Not sure if anyone is interested but I received a Raspberry Pi > (http://www.raspberrypi.org/) about a week ago and thought I'd try > shoving Rivendell on it to see what happened. > > The reason for my meddling is that its a $35 board about the size of a > credit card with the height of approx a 2.5" hard drive. It runs off a > 5v micro usb power supply or you can use 4 AA batteries (no idea how > long they last). > > It also has 8 on board GPIO connectors, RS232 pin connectors and can > hook directly up to an LCD screen using the standard ribbon cable (or > HDMI or Component Video). > > Anyway I loaded up the Debian Wheezy BETA image onto a 16GB SD Card and > then followed the instructions for a normal Debian from source install. > > It took 6 and a half hours to compile but it installed without a > problem. It is just about usable however it struggles a lot. > > I'd put it in a slightly worse category than an old P4 for usage. I've > not tried Riv on anything older so can't really get a good comparison. > > Here are the problems: > > ripcd takes up 100% CPU, which makes everything very sluggish > No idea how to get GPIO working > > Playing more than 1 MP2 file caused glitches during the cross fade. I > did mean to try it with plain WAV audio but haven't had the time (I > believe this is due to a lack of CPU power but it could also be an audio > chip issue as I don't have any decent USB sound cards handy). > > I tried offloading the Apache side to a normal PC running Riv but I keep > getting errors generating peaks etc. I've never tried this before so > I've probably just configured something wrong. > > The Wheezy image is BETA at the moment and the Pi folks are tweaking > things to offload more to the graphics chip thats on board (which is > capable of playing Quake 3). If it improves it could be a nice little > play out box with a decent USB sound card. Pair it with a touch screen > and tack the board on the back for a cheap "all in one" Rivendell machine. > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
