malaugh;339998 Wrote: > They may even be able to re-use the Duet Receier. As far I as I know > that is just a small Linux computer anyway.
fattybacon;348262 Wrote: > As for people saying that what you are asking for is a computer so use a > computer, I think they are missing the point that the duet receiver is > also a computer. So why not use it? No, the SBR doesn't run Linux. And it's only a computer in that it has a CPU and RAM. But it's not even close to something you could get Linux to run on - it has a Ubicom network processor that's definitely not your conventional x86 architecture and it uses firmware developed in expensive proprietary software. You'd have to build a whole new product. You can't simply drop SC into the SBR and expect it to run. > As for the Yamaha and Olive offerings, have you seen the price of them? > The market wants Duet prices not megabucks. But that's what a server-and-networked-media-player costs. There are reasons why they cost so much. Sure, those are overpriced, especially the Olive, but they will be a lot more than $100. I don't really understand why people can't follow the suggestions in this thread and get a low-powered computer, install SC on it and be done with it? I keep seeing this request pop-up though, perhaps there is a market for just that - a low-powered PC with SC preinstalled, marketed as a "SqueezeCenter server". I keep thinking I would like to do this but then I picture the support nightmare, I wouldn't want to touch that with a 10-foot pole... -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta) Stored: Boom (PQP1 - early beta), SBC (beta - no battery) Sold: SB3, Duet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52559 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
