Hi,
They do have that pi desktop that is graphics accelerated in
development. It looked fancy but sadly doesn't seem to be ready for
public use.
Shielding etc is a concern however I've got two Pi's sitting at work
(one as an internal playout for the building and another for a custom
app we run). The custom app must be nearing 2 years up time by now. I
also have a custom rackmount case with fans etc with a pi inside. I
haven't even looked at the device for at least 6 months so reliability
seems fine to me.
Wayne Merricks
The Voice Asia
On 05/02/15 22:52, James L. Stewart wrote:
Yea, I just ordered one of these things, and of course they are back
ordered for weeks.
One thing that still annoys me about the RPI (which applies to the new
one too), is that we STILL don't have accelerated graphics happening
for these things except for a very few specific cases (XBMC,
omxplayer, and Wayland). Even though Rivendell shouldn't need much
acceleration, I worry that any GUI movement at all could overtax the
main processor and make bad things happen. I guess newer version of
QT can work directly with Wayland (I haven't followed up about how
feature-complete or stable it all is yet), but I'm guessing the
version of QT Rivendell uses with won't talk to Wayland.
All that said, when I get mine in, I might try compiling up some
binaries for Raspian and see what happens.
I do agree somewhat with the earlier comment about using such a settup
for anything serious. Historically I haven't found the RPI to be the
most stable thing, but I agree with the RPI community in that at this
point things like the quality of the power supply (like you probably
can't buy an off-the-shelf power supply with a microUSB connector on
it that is robust enough for mountain-top transmitter site use!) makes
a significant difference. Putting on the optional heat sinks really
helps too, especially if you try overclocking them at all. All that
said, they are a lot better now then they were when they first came
out when I was constantly either having them eat their file system, or
even occasionally destroy the whole SD card! I have one of the 1st
10,000 units (later ones I have are better), and once had to use early
firmware loads (later ones are much improved). At least a typical RPI
installation would NOT have any moving parts, but then there is RF
shielding issues (if it does end up in a room with a 25,000 Watt
transmitter), and lightning proximity protection. A hardware
watchdog added to the device might make it all worthwhile however.
(A side note, I once gave someone an old Pentium-III computer for use
as a file server - Linux of course - that all the fans in it had
either failed or were failing, so I under clocked it until it ran
cool, then disconnected all the fans, and I think the silly thing is
still working to this day (many years later!))
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