Thanks and Hi Ronnie and @jeroen2;
I appreciate your comments...good thought on using 8.1.1 I have his pCP setup here at home and am testing it on a spare radio. I setup the LMS data on a third partition on the SD, which I have adopted this solution as well. My friend lives near us at our cabin and there are allot of power failures (tall trees and wind), so he experiences what I do. LMS data on the SD allows me to recover with a pCP reboot only. When I had it on an attached HDD, the power cut cause the mount to get lost. I plan on sending a spare SD, and keeping an image myself, good suggestion. That way, if he bricks it somehow I can roll my eyes, and tell him to swap the card. I also think that providing a stable version of LMS (and not expecting him to update) is the best idea. If an update is needed because of a bug, I can just talk him through the pCP UI update process. In my heart I think that a static IP is the way. There is a chance that something will happen (say router replacement) and the ip will be reassigned, then he'll be stuck, and none of the UI bookmarks will work. I have never used auto rescan or powersave before, but I tested them here and they both seem to work well. He is a basic user with his touch running tinyLMS, really only adding his music and an internet radio favorite here and there. I am going to start using powersave myself. I don't know the best way to work around his thumb drive of music. I would prepare a stick here, but I don't have his music. I think I will have to talk him through creating the /mnt/ folder (if it isn't there for tinyLMS) and moving his music. I have asked him to open his thumb drive in windows file explorer and send me a photo :) so I can setup the LMS/pCP and give him instructions on. @D6jg also suggested remote assist, which I plan on doing a dry run before I send it out. All of this seems like alot of effort, I could just wait to april/may, but why wait when he can listen now? TinyLMS served him well, but there is allot of things it can't do, and now with allot of radio stations moving to https it's time. It's funny, he listens to radio paradise 320k stream and says (his words) "allot of great music and allot of cr@p!" so now he'll be able to listen to FLAC interactive and skip over the cr@p. :p Thanks again, and other thoughts, essential, plugins, etc are appreciated! Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Redrum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113774 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
