Re: [RDD] OT (ish) RPi 2 released

2015-02-09 Thread Rob Landry
There is an Israeli company, solid-run.com, that makes a board called the Hummingboard that is the same size as the Raspberry Pi but is more powerful. I recently ordered the high-end model, the Hummingboard i2ex, which comes with 1 GB RAM, and have just installed Rivendell on it (under

Re: [RDD] OT (ish) RPi 2 released

2015-02-06 Thread Frederick Gleason
On Feb 6, 2015, at 12:42 38, James L. Stewart jstew...@paceaudio.com wrote: On the RPI audio output. I seem to remember someone claiming the audio output of the RPI being inferior in some way such as it only really being about 14-bit resolution. (I think CD audio is also only 14-bit

[RDD] OT (ish) RPi 2 released

2015-02-06 Thread James L. Stewart
:49:14 -0500 From: Frederick Gleasonfr...@paravelsystems.com To: User Automation Systemrivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org Subject: Re: [RDD] OT (ish) RPi 2 released Message-ID:65d9801b-0b30-4aa3-aa97-a6a0baea7...@paravelsystems.com On Feb 5, 2015, at 17:52 56, James L. Stewartjstew

Re: [RDD] OT (ish) RPi 2 released

2015-02-06 Thread Frederick Gleason
On Feb 5, 2015, at 17:52 56, James L. Stewart jstew...@paceaudio.com wrote: I do agree somewhat with the earlier comment about using such a settup for anything serious. Historically I haven't found the RPI to be the most stable thing, FWIW, I did some testing with the first generation

[RDD] OT (ish) RPi 2 released

2015-02-05 Thread James L. Stewart
Yea, I just ordered one of these things, and of course they are back ordered for weeks. One thing that still annoys me about the RPI (which applies to the new one too), is that we STILL don't have accelerated graphics happening for these things except for a very few specific cases (XBMC,

Re: [RDD] OT (ish) RPi 2 released

2015-02-02 Thread John Anderson
guess I am an old fuddy duddy on this one... I would think that an older rack mounted unit, core two, or even a basic single would playback airplay just fine... at best, you'll likely use this machine for emergency playback, and rdsync..and you would want something somewhat dirt proof, and RF

[RDD] OT (ish) RPi 2 released

2015-02-02 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi all, Slightly off topic but it relates to an offsite transmitter with silence fall back and probably Riv itself. The Raspberry Pi 2 has been released with 1GB RAM and a quad core Arm v7 (as opposed to a single core Arm v6). I played around with Riv on the original Pi, it was almost

Re: [RDD] OT (ish) RPi 2 released

2015-02-02 Thread Morten Krarup Nielsen
A port of the Broadcast Appliance CD would be nice ;-) 2015-02-02 19:20 GMT+01:00 Wayne Merricks waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com: Hi all, Slightly off topic but it relates to an offsite transmitter with silence fall back and probably Riv itself. The Raspberry Pi 2 has been released with 1GB