After having a lot of stability issues with Volumio I had dropped it six months ago. Yesterday again I gave a try on RPi based streaming solution, this time with piCorePlayer. It looks like a large framework than Volumio. I am trying following setup with all spare gears lying around including RPi3 - to reduce the load I setup LMS in a dedicated RPi3.
RPi3 + 128GB SSD -> piCorePlayer -> LMS
RPi3 + Fiio E10K DAC -> piCorePlayer -> Squeezelite -> GUI client is Squeeze (Android App)
Initially tried with jivelite GUI interface which crashed often within less than 24 hours of setup. Instead of this Android app looks good and convenient.
This is just to feel the stability of the setup, if satisfied I may go for proper RPi4, HAT DAC (or USB DAC) and others. My major problem with these solutions are stability which is partly due to unofficial hacked plugins and many third party layer integration.
Before investing on HAT DAC or USB DAC, I would like to know your experience in using this chain as primary streaming device or only streaming device. Please share your experience how reliable is this solution?
RPi3 + 128GB SSD -> piCorePlayer -> LMS
RPi3 + Fiio E10K DAC -> piCorePlayer -> Squeezelite -> GUI client is Squeeze (Android App)
Initially tried with jivelite GUI interface which crashed often within less than 24 hours of setup. Instead of this Android app looks good and convenient.
This is just to feel the stability of the setup, if satisfied I may go for proper RPi4, HAT DAC (or USB DAC) and others. My major problem with these solutions are stability which is partly due to unofficial hacked plugins and many third party layer integration.
Before investing on HAT DAC or USB DAC, I would like to know your experience in using this chain as primary streaming device or only streaming device. Please share your experience how reliable is this solution?