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I am currently running a PI Audio BatteryBuss and I would say 95% of the noise is eliminated. If I stop the music and turn my Dodd Buffer to full volume I can hear the noise, but that is the only way. At listening volume, whether the music is stopped or playing, nothing It is great!Next question, has anyone tried putting the Alix in another case? (either case in a case, or move the board over)I am thinking of making a case for the Alix to match the rest of my 2-channel set-up...
Terry,Hey. That's Jason's Alix you bought, right? Cool.Get WinSCP too. It will allow you to access the file/folder structures from your Windows XP desktop. And yes, putty will allow you to talk to Alix (terminal/console stuff). That's what I do. And yes, you can access the Windows XP folders for your music..but for me that was the trickiest part, to get the network drive mapped, get the permissions right, and know the name to give Alix in the config files.I'm a Linux newbie too, so my direction is 100% from memory, not from any real expertise. PM me your email and I'll send you a a couple Windows screen shots to show you what I have. But Mike (MGalusha), Tom (TomS) and especially Nick (nyc_paramedic) will be your best hope here; at least they were for me. There may be more experience on the forum now, though.
Just as an FYI Voyage was installed at the same time as Ted's card was by mgalusha.
Jim,Yes, there is plenty of help here. As Ted said, you need Putty and WinSCP and you're good to go for configuration since your card is already built for you. The basics are that you'll need to edit "mpd.conf" on Alix with WinSCP to adjust any settings and point the Alix to the source of music files. You'll also need to edit "fstab" to ensure the file connection to your music that "mpd.conf" references is established when Alix boots. The rest depends on the other end where your files are actually stored. If it's Linux then the "exports" file can be used there to expose the correct directory path from the Linux file store to the Alix MPD player.Tom
sorry about that Terry. My apologies.WinSCP is a Windows based tool that lets you view the Voyage Linux files on the Alix in a familiar Windows like tree structure, see properties, etc. The main thing is that you can simply double click on a Linux file such as "mpd.conf" or "fstab", edit it in place, and then write it back to Voyage Linux on the Alix in place. You need Putty to do things at the Linux command line such as add a user (for MPD to run as), change the CF card to mount it as read/write (since default is read only), etc. You can do the same things from a command line with Putty as WinSCP, except WinSCP makes it much quicker. It also allows you to drag and drop files if necessary.In terms of Windows as the music server, I'm using Linux and OSX here, so I'll defer to Mike and Ted on how to get that working. I'd assume you can just mount an SMB share (Windows) and be good to go though.Tom
Absolutely no apologies necessary! Thanks though.I appreciate the information. Things are MUCH clearer now. I'm in the process of booting the Alix and figuring out what its IP address is. Then I want to make it static. As far as my server goes, I'm only running Windows because it was easy. The machine is running very slowly as it's been running for about 2 years with only the occasional reboot after power outages and manual reboots. It could very well be switched over to Linux as part of my learning process. Thanks for the help thus far!
I'd say if the server works reliably don't mess with it. In terms of the IP address sometimes it's easier to just set up the router to pass a specific address to it, based on MAC address of the device. It just depends on what the router lets you do. That way major upgrades on the device that walk on the configuring you've done in a prior version won't affect it. I actually have 3 CF cards, one with my "baseline" Voyage MPD, another with 0.7 and a new one now with 7.5 which I haven't tested. I just plug them in and the router knows to give it the same address.
I will take your advise and leave well enough alone for now regarding the server.I powered up the Alix and I have a heartbeat flashing LED, so I assume it's working properly. I couldn't get Putty to work, so I don't know what I'm doing wrong there, and I have a bunch of router issues as well. I don't seem capable of even doing the things I thought I knew how to do. Not a good day thus far...
That's ok, baby steps will still get it done. With Putty you want to open an SSH session on port 22 with "root" as user and "voyage" as password. That should get you in.Not sure about the router. By default it likely uses DHCP to pass out an available IP address such as 192.168.1.xxx to the Alix. That will work fine, at least until the next time you add/delete devices on the router and reboot Alix for some reason.
