P Nelson wrote: 
> Interesting observation that the Pi may not be the most energy efficient
> solution.  I have wondered the same thing because even when the Pcp/LMS
> is not playing any music the cpu temp for my 3B+ always is about 58C.  I
> saw in the tweaks there is a cpu governor option of power save.  I tried
> power save and looked at the cpu temp chart, and the temperature did not
> change much, maybe 1C.  I have noticed 1C fluctuations seem normal.  My
> understanding running LMS does not require much cpu power, so i might
> just leave it in power save.  
> 
> While maybe not the most energy efficient, I do like the small size of
> the Pi and it doesn’t take up much space my media equipment area.

The comparison was between a laptop in sleep state and a running Pi, so
not really a like for like comparison and without WOL working, a sleep
state laptop isn't going to be a user friendly solution and, speaking
from experience with a Linux server, even with WOL working, it is still
clunky.


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