Thank you to all for the quality feedback.
Thank you Greg for reminding me that Squeezelite can be disabled. I haven't thought about that. Presumably then the 'player' doesn't exist and doesn't show up in the list of players - which is what I want. About the UPS, some of us might feel we can just go in and fix a problem, if it shows up, but I much prefer no problems at all, hence the UPS. My feel for the USB based power supply to RPis is that they're a bit sensitive to connection failure. The trick is to shut down LMS nicely, but again without experience I am just assuming this is easily implemented with a script - most UPS's communicate over the I2C port. It will require a small (tiny) hack. Technically one wouldn't need a shutdown button, since pulling the plug will trigger the UPS to execute a soft shutdown... but if the UPS comes with a button, I'd accept and drill a hole in the case for it. I agree one could just keep the music collection on a NAS, but I also like the idea that with the server (with storage) and the player, one can bring these two devices to other places (family and friends, vacation homes, Hi-Fi show rooms). Just plug the devices in and connect over a simple network (a switch should do). I like the idea of two USB-pens and one of them as failover ... I guess this is the only part, which isn't straightforward in the current piCorePlayer-based server. Is there any way to manage your music collection on piCore'Server' ... ? ... I'm thinking about something user friendly, maybe GUI based? Best regards, Claus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cfuttrup's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32784 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112214 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
