Re: [Dorset] How can I discover why my RPi freezes after it has frozen?

2017-01-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, One last idea. It used to be you'd build an MP3 player from an MCU and a $7 MP3-decoder chip. The Pi Zero could replace the former and should be up to flinging SPI data to more than one of them. http://www.vlsi.fi/en/products/vs1011.html http://fun4diy.com/CCS_MP3.htm

Re: [Dorset] How can I discover why my RPi freezes after it has frozen?

2017-01-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday, 5 January 2017 12:17:05 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > I ran lsusb on the hub Terry tried and it does show up as single-TT, > > although it does show up as 4 hubs. > > I filtered out some of its more interesting lines to try and lessen the > noise, giving http://pastebin.com/GSu1Cb8A

Re: [Dorset] How can I discover why my RPi freezes after it has frozen?

2017-01-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > I'm leaning towards the multi-core effect as being the reason that the > bigger Pis work. Quite possibly. Andrew's good idea of two Pis with their UARTs connected so you've a serial console might actually give useful information when it freezes rather than all this guesswork. >

Re: [Dorset] How can I discover why my RPi freezes after it has frozen?

2017-01-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday, 5 January 2017 12:17:05 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > I ran lsusb on the hub Terry tried and it does show up as single-TT, > > although it does show up as 4 hubs. > > I filtered out some of its more interesting lines to try and lessen the > noise, giving http://pastebin.com/GSu1Cb8A

Re: [Dorset] How can I discover why my RPi freezes after it has frozen?

2017-01-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > I ran lsusb on the hub Terry tried and it does show up as single-TT, > although it does show up as 4 hubs. I filtered out some of its more interesting lines to try and lessen the noise, giving http://pastebin.com/GSu1Cb8A That says "bDeviceProtocol 2 TT per port" a couple of times so