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Headless setup (possibly) for 200w, controlled via computer/app with reduced power
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<blockquote data-quote="oysterman" data-source="post: 8607128" data-attributes="member: 673991"><p>Load time isn't so much the issue, but the computer is tucked away in a cupboard. OK, so it takes me an extra 10 seconds to boot it up but I'm looking for convenience. I'm often in the cockpit and think "let's have some music", so then I have to go down to boot the computer up, turn the stereo on, connect the phone to the hotspot and so on. Sometimes there might be an issue where the computer didn't boot up properly so then I have to plug the big screen into an inverter, turn on all that, and so it goes on. I'm being lazy, but these issues sometimes prevent me from bothering, so a solution where I turn on one thing (and maybe connect the phone to the hotspot) and I'm done would be the ideal solution.</p><p></p><p>At the moment I'm running a hotspot via an old Android phone which both the computer and the phone I use to access the Foobar app then connect to. I tried running a hotspot from the computer directly for the foobar phone to connect to but it didn't like it (even when using a hotspot sharing app on the PC), so the best solution was to have a dedicated device to just run the hotspot. That got me thinking about a Pi. If a Pi could run the music library connected to the head unit and always be on, then I only have to turn the head unit on. I'm not sure I could run a hotspot via the Pi - I might run into the same problems I've had with the PC - and I'd have to find an alternative to Foobar, since that's Windows specific...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oysterman, post: 8607128, member: 673991"] Load time isn't so much the issue, but the computer is tucked away in a cupboard. OK, so it takes me an extra 10 seconds to boot it up but I'm looking for convenience. I'm often in the cockpit and think "let's have some music", so then I have to go down to boot the computer up, turn the stereo on, connect the phone to the hotspot and so on. Sometimes there might be an issue where the computer didn't boot up properly so then I have to plug the big screen into an inverter, turn on all that, and so it goes on. I'm being lazy, but these issues sometimes prevent me from bothering, so a solution where I turn on one thing (and maybe connect the phone to the hotspot) and I'm done would be the ideal solution. At the moment I'm running a hotspot via an old Android phone which both the computer and the phone I use to access the Foobar app then connect to. I tried running a hotspot from the computer directly for the foobar phone to connect to but it didn't like it (even when using a hotspot sharing app on the PC), so the best solution was to have a dedicated device to just run the hotspot. That got me thinking about a Pi. If a Pi could run the music library connected to the head unit and always be on, then I only have to turn the head unit on. I'm not sure I could run a hotspot via the Pi - I might run into the same problems I've had with the PC - and I'd have to find an alternative to Foobar, since that's Windows specific... [/QUOTE]
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