Preview of Falcon Pi Player User Interface

[Habbosrus]

You can buy a RTC (Real Time Clock) add-on board for the PI. I am currently researching this option.

 

[kane]

I too have ordered a Pi today and this looks so easy to set up. So if I didnt have a wifi connection avialable, does this mean that I cant run the Pi as it wont know the time and hence the scheduler cant run? Or is there some other way of getting around this?

I'm not speaking from experience here, but I can't see why you wouldn't be able to simply put the Pi on your normal home network (wired), and also have e1.31 data going out that same interface.

It's similar to how some people install two network cards in a PC, one exclusively for e1.31 and the other for all traffic - but most people just stick with one card and don't have any issues..

 

[Ozemate]

How critical is it to have a real time module on board as the pi works well via a wifi connection and can keep time via a time server

 

[smeighan]

Got it - Like I said, bad thing!! Was thinking of something else .......


Thanks,

Yeah, David just announced the first release of the pi player.
Thread is on his site. http://falconchristmas.com/forum/index.php?topic=155.0


650mbyte image. I already got my image and have the pi player running my 12K channels.


sean

You can find the first public Alpha Release here. Alpha 0.0.3
http://sourceforge.net/projects/falconpiplayer/files/FalconPiPlayer_Alpha0.0.3.img.zip/download


We are getting the bug tracking system set up. We may end up using Github's ability to track bugs.


Known things to implement/bugs


1) Repeat/no repeat of playlists in immediate player.
2) First/Last option for playlists.
3) Weekday, weekend and other quick scheduling day options.
4) Better music to sequence data syncing.
5) E131 to Pixelnet/DMX bridge. (Half way done)
6) Video playback, wireless slave operation.




Follow the instructions here to get the image burned to your SD card(4gig minimum). You also need to have a USB memory stick formatted to Fat32 installed in PI to hold media.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads under Raw Images. But use our image instead.


This release is to get you familiar with player and possibly to allow a willing user to create a wiki and/or manual.
This is an Alpha release and will be a bit buggy. This is still a work in progress.


Thanks for your patience.






David and MyKroft