Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi Shortage Update

2022-11-27 Thread mark wollschlager
It seems that the commercial market that builds around the pi is the black hole. I would love to try out the 4 compute module with some of the cool carrier boards. But nope. 2 Duets controllers, 1 X Boom, 1 X Radio 1 X Receiver + Edifier S1000DB 1 X Receiver + Yamaha RX-A2000, Polk M70 1 X

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-01-02 Thread mark wollschlager
Thanks Much. Happy New Year. Did an In-Situ on a pi3b smooth and easy. 2 Duets controllers, 1 X Boom, 1 X Radio 1 X Receiver + Edifier S1000DB 1 X Receiver + Yamaha RX-A2000, Polk M70 1 X Receiver + Boston MicroSystem CD Raspberry Pi 3 B+ HiFi Berry Amp2 7" touchscreen PiCorePlayer 6.0

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] pi4 with 8Gb RAM now available

2020-05-29 Thread mark wollschlager
It requires a new 64 bit OS to get to the 8gb. Time for new versions of everything. Good news for the docker/kubernetes folks. 2 Duets controllers, 1 X Boom, 1 X Radio 1 X Receiver + Edifier S1000DB 1 X Receiver + Yamaha RX-A2000, Polk M70 1 X Receiver + Boston MicroSystem CD Raspberry Pi 3

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-03-14 Thread mark wollschlager
In-situ worked just fine. Thanks so much for such a great product. 2 Duets controllers, 1 X Boom, 1 X Radio 1 X Receiver + Edifier S1000DB 1 X Receiver + Yamaha RX-A2000, Polk M70 1 X Receiver + Boston MicroSystem CD Raspberry Pi 3 B+ HiFi Berry Amp2 7" touchscreen PiCorePlayer 5.0

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-06-09 Thread mark wollschlager
Nice! Thanks for the treat. I just bought a new 7" RPi screen yesterday ( 1st was not working, bad touch calibration ). Setting it up I saw the new version. Tried the in-situ upgrade from 4.0. Wacked my sd ( no boot ), so I got a new image. Works great so far. 2 Duets controllers, 1 X Boom,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-11-22 Thread mark wollschlager
It looks like the Pi 3B+ fixed things. Works very well, thanks to the developers and testers for a dynamite solution. 2 Duets controllers, 1 X Boom, 1 X Radio 1 X Receiver + Edifier S1000DB 1 X Receiver + Yamaha RX-A2000, Polk M70 1 X Receiver + Boston MicroSystem CD Raspberry Pi 3 B+ HiFi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-11-22 Thread mark wollschlager
Wirrunna wrote: > Mark, are you using the RPi internal WiFi or a dongle ? The internal > WiFi is poor in the RPi2B, but for not much more than a good WiFi dongle > you could get an RPi3 B+ or for $10 less, a RPi3A+ - the WiFi in these > is excellent and the 5GHz throughput is supposedly faster

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-11-21 Thread mark wollschlager
Hi, new user of picoreplayer here. Using a Pi 2B 7" screen, Hifi Berry Amp2 , mean well 60w power supply. The interface is nice, and after some poking around got the dac working. When I play streaming radio it works ok. When I tried to play a flac file from the local library it plays a little

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Anyone find a case for the 7" touch screen for the picoreplayer?

2015-12-28 Thread mark wollschlager
So far the max2play 7in case seems to fit the bill, for a price... http://shop.max2play.com/en/zubehor/raspi-case-93.html 2 Duets controllers, 1 X Boom, 1 X Radio 1 X Receiver + Audioengine A5 1 X Receiver + Yamaha RX-A2000, Polk M70 1 X Receiver + Boston MicroSystem CD Nexus 7 w/ Squeeze Ctrl

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Anyone find a case for the 7" touch screen for the picoreplayer?

2015-12-27 Thread mark wollschlager
This one is on backorder, but the only one I can find right now. https://www.adafruit.com/products/2033 2 Duets controllers, 1 X Boom, 1 X Radio 1 X Receiver + Audioengine A5 1 X Receiver + Yamaha RX-A2000, Polk M70 1 X Receiver + Boston MicroSystem CD Nexus 7 w/ Squeeze Ctrl ReadyNAS 516 LMS