cooppw02 wrote: > Absolutely brilliant stuff going on here. I've just got pCP with LMS > running for the first time on my RPi3. > > I'm hoping to stick a RPi in my car. I want to avoid the added > complexity that a 'normal' car RPi installation has. The majority of the > tutorials I've read say that in order to avoid filesystem corruption, > you need to cleanly shut down the RPi. Cleanly shutting down an RPi in a > car generally leads to some fairly complicated installations. It often > involves wiring stuff into the ignition, or utilizing some kind of > battery power supply, etc... > > I want to avoid all that, and the boot-to-RAM nature of piCorePlayer > appeals to me because it seems to avoid all that. I want the thing to > boot off an ordinary 12V > USB adapter, and I want the thing to not go > to shit when it regularly, abruptly loses power. > > My question is, is there anything in pCP, LMS, or any other of its > 'beta' features that would jeopardize what I am hoping to do? Running > just a client seems be pretty straightforward. Running a server > necessarily seems to involve more filesystem writes. > > Please note that I'm not a noob when it comes to Linux and technical > matters. Linux has been my desktop for over a decade now and I've had > Squeezebox stuff running since 2008.
I have been running LMS on an ARM platform in my car for quite some time now. The first system I had in my car was based on a Wandboard and it had a "save shutdown" system. It used a fix 12 volt wire for the power supply and it used a 12 volts wire that was controlled by the ignition. The system would shutdown after the car was off for 4 hours. This bridged shorter driving distances (say when you're shopping). Although the Wandboard system has never failed, it was a bit large due to additional electronics for the shutdown mechanism. So I replaced it with a BPI system. The BPI system does not run into RAM (appart from the LMS database files for increased performance) and should be shutdown properly. I say should but I never did. It is in use for a year or two and it has never failed on me yet. The only thing I did was to disable any kind of logging I could find to make sure that the writing to the SD card remains to a minimum. I posted a picture yesterday about my current CarSqueeze system: 20767 The system sits in the space under the armrest of my car. I also take it with me when I'm traveling. It has aphost installed so that it acts as an AP so that my phone connects to it - I use iPeng to control it. It also runs Samba to share my music. That is useful for putting more music on it: at home I connect it to the network and use SyncBack on my laptop to copy (backup) my music that resides on my NAS to my CarSqueeze. Works very well and I'm very pleased with it. If you're going to use a RPI with piCorePlayer then you can configure the LMS database onto the external drive. That way you are completely safe not to damaged the SD card when withing off the power without a proper shutdown. The reason why I haven't switched to piCorPlayer for my car system is due to aphost and Samba. It would probably work on piCore but it needs some fidling around. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: 2016-07-16 17.34.16.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=20767| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ 'M-DAC' (http://www.audiolab.co.uk/product-detail.php?pid=13) -> 'Focal MP1200' (http://www.mp1200.co.nf/) -> 'Focal Electra 1028 Be' (http://www.focal.com/en/electra-1000-be-2/209-electra-1028-be-3544053695099.html) 1 x SB3, 1 x SB Boom, 1 x SB Radio and 2 x SB Touch - all wireless 2 x Wandboard Dual, 1 x Wandboard Quad ReadyNAS NVX running LMS 7.9.0. iPeng on iPhone, SqueezePad & iPeng on iPad. http://www.last.fm/user/phibon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pascal Hibon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7969 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105018 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
