I have been jumping all over the place trying to find a solid solution. I
haven't had a decent opportunity to do a deep dive so basically like
spaghetti, just throwing it to the wall until it sticks.
1. Ubuntu VM on Windows Host. I7 worked nice for learning and watching
graphs, but did not want to tie up main machine to broadcast.
2. PI3, before I knew about Max and Botboad branches. Just can't tune
quick enough. Misses short transmissions.
3. Dedicated 5th Gen I5 Desktop with Ubuntu host install, no VM. Tunes much
faster, rarely misses. Audio always ends up crashing at seem point each day..
4. Pi3 with John's image. Much improved. Idiot proof. But still late
entry into many conversations. Tried cheap RTL and NoElec.
5. Just arrived, got the PI 3B+. Slightly faster CPU, better heat-sink.
Going to try and overclock this evening.
I'll probably circle back to number 3 and turn on verbose and start
digging. Eventually want two feeds which desktop can handle.
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 5:54 PM, 'William Becks' wa8wg(a)centurytel.net
[op25-dev] <op25-dev(a)yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Graham and all.
For what is worth, I have been having very good luck using the Pine Rock64
SBC as a replacement for the Raspberry Pi-3B. I can tell you that it runs
circles around the Pi and moreover it can be outfitted very inexpensively
with eMMC very inexpensively that make the Rock64 run even faster. I can’t
testify as to how well it will simultaneously support streaming as I have
yet to configure it to do so.
The Ayufan OS’s have been improving in reliability but at present I have
been having very good stability with the DietPi Linux image running OP25
with not freeze ups at all running the http console and switching among
plots.
Bill, WA8WG
*From:* op25-dev(a)yahoogroups.com [mailto:op25-dev@yahoogroups.com]
*Sent:* Wednesday, March 21, 2018 2:57 PM
*To:* op25-dev(a)yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [op25-dev] Streaming audio from OP25/Raspberry Pi
Occasional stalling seems to have been an ongoing problem for me with the
RPI3. Most of the time it'll run for day or weeks, then out of the blue
the audio ceases to be sent to broadcastify. If I pull up the terminal
screen the tsbk counter is running and the darkice process is present, but
silence... Curiously the same symptoms have never manifested themselves on
my other (main) stream hosted on an intel powered laptop.
Very soon I'm going to be moving away from using the PI3 as a host so
hopefully reliability will improve. I obtained an Intel NUC7I5 that is
going to run both feeds in parallel with the new web-based terminal as the
front end. It cost 20x more than the PI3, but if it increases reliability
and doesn't need so much babysitting it'll have been worth it.
Graham