On RPI reliability, so I do have three RPI's running a continuously looping videos for a customer in a "digital signage" application that have now been running fine for about 10 months without problems, but the previous 3 months were not so good as all three SD cards mysteriously "went bad". Perhaps it was just a problem with defective SD cards, but a year earlier I had my original RPI destroy two other SD cards running RaspBMC, but haven't had a problem since.
On the RPI audio output. I seem to remember someone claiming the audio output of the RPI being inferior in some way such as it only really being about 14-bit resolution. (I think "CD audio" is also only 14-bit with an algorithm that fakes it up to 16 bits). It seems to sound okay to me, but perhaps I am not listening critically enough. The RPI does play (and record) just fine using USB audio devices (as I'm sure the BBB does too), but I am concerned that just about all I/O (like Ethernet) on the RPI is "funneled" into its (eventually single) USB input so I think one needs to be careful not to overload this bus. Finally, later versions of the RPI at least tried to address the mounting issues of previous models in that now they have all the cabling only taking up 2 sides of the device instead of the previous octopus looking mess of wires out all 4 sides. Makes case design much easier too. The RPI evolution is interesting to say the least. From it's humble beginnings of a couple of school teachers throwing something together for their own purposes then hoping to sell the remaining of a minimum order of 1000 units on the internet to the 4 Million units that have been produced today, now with the announcement of the RPI 2 this could explode up to yet a whole new level. Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 11:49:14 -0500 From: Frederick Gleason<fr...@paravelsystems.com> To: User Automation System<rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org> Subject: Re: [RDD] OT (ish) RPi 2 released Message-ID:<65d9801b-0b30-4aa3-aa97-a6a0baea7...@paravelsystems.com> On Feb 5, 2015, at 17:52 56, James L. Stewart<jstew...@paceaudio.com> wrote:
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,
FWIW, I did some testing with the first generation units and found much the same thing. I?ve since moved on to the BeagleBone Black. A few dollars more, but better documented and*much* more stable. And, you can actually physically mount the thing without going through crazy contortions! On the downside, the BBB does lack onboard audio output.
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