ian_heys wrote: > 1. Do all the players have to be the same Pi Version and all be > players? > 2. Is the operating system/squeezelite/LMS upradeable once the OS has > loaded and does the player have to go back to base OS if one of the > players stops? > 3. I suppose if all the players had identical hardware and DAC's etc > then the updated image could be kept on the central server? 1. Yes, netbooting is a Pi 3 specific feature, AFAIK. Something to do with the chipset model used. 2. According to my tests, you can boot, configure pCP and reboot into the new config like if the OS was installed on the SD. 3. The OSes don't need to be the same, they are stored in the server. The Pi 3 client boots the OS it fetches via TFTP under a path that includes its serial number, e.g. "/tftp/123456/". Then in the OS config you specify an NFS export to serve as root directory, e.g. "/export/123456/pCP". So you need a bit of room on the server (but in the case of pCP the OS is so small it just doesn't matter). And you can access a machine's system right away under /tftp or /export. Very easy compared to using an SD.
As I mentioned, boot reliability is not good enough in my case. If there is no solution to this, then I don't think the setup is viable. 3 SB 3 Libratone Loop, Zipp Mini iPeng (iPhone + iPad) LMS 7.9 (linux) with plugins: CD Player, WaveInput, Triode's BBC iPlayer by bpa IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) Server Power Control by Gordon Harris Smart Mix, Music Walk With Me, What Was That Tune? by Michael Herger PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple Song Info, Song Lyrics by Erland Isaksson AirPlay Bridge by philippe_44 WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld Auto Dim Display, SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107233
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