schup011 wrote: > I think it is great extending the LMS ecosystem. > > One question I was asking myself with your approach was the benefit > compared to existing solutions. If you are using RasPi's, I think there > already is a great solution that covers quite a lot, maybe everything > that is possible with LMS, squeezelite and RasPi's. > > So your solution would cover also x86 hardware. Is that the reason why > you are working on it? Or is there something else?
Hi schup011, thanks for the comments. The main reason I'm working on it is just for fun! But beyond that, I do agree that PiCorePlayer (I assume that's what you are referring to) is a full featured solution with a great bunch of guys developing and supporting it, but I really like Alpine and I'm running it on most everything I own, from my home router, thin clients and Rpi's, to the laptop I'm typing this on. It's a really versatile distro. I also thought managing players through an LMS plugin would make it feel like an integrated solution, give you a single point of management, and also save me from having to develop an interface that ran client side. I'm also trying to have the player update itself at boot so to get the latest packages you just reboot the player. Not sure if that will go for the base OS or just the add on packages, haven't got that far yet. Got Jivelite and related support packages build for x86_64 a couple nights ago. Got an Rpi4 setup for building aarch64 and an Rpi A+ for armhf. I think those are the only 3 architectures I'm going to host packages for at this time, all of which are supported by Alpine, at least for now. There's been talk about eliminating armhf or turning it over to the community to support. We'll see what happens. There's still not much out there that competes with the Pi Zero W as far as size/value/features IMO, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112899 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
