(08-19-2021, 01:48 PM)Miss Sissy Princess Wrote:(08-19-2021, 10:37 AM)Sehnsucht Wrote: I'm too cheap/lazy to want to do that, plus the wifi in the Raspberry Pi is pretty piss poor - to say nothing of the problem of connecting an ethernet cable to a Pi Zero W. My solution was to use ethernet-over-lan from the router elsewhere in the house to a mains socket in the same room as the Pi, and connect that to an unused old modem/router from a previous broadband contract.
It's great that a Pi Zero W can run moOde, but the modest $25 delta between a Pi Zero W and a Pi 4B makes the Pi 4B the only choice for me (I don't want to nickel and dime this to death; so let's skip the 'I can power the Zero W with my old phone charger' type of stuff).
For that $25, I get gigabit Ethernet and an order of magnitude higher computing performance, and that makes a huge, real-world difference in everything from moOde GUI responsiveness to music library updates.
I can afford a Pi 4; that's what my home system uses. The $25 delta is pretty much what paid for the DAC, SD card etc in this system:
http://moodeaudio.org/forum/showthread.p...6#pid35606
I use an external Android mdp client to control it, as the moOde GUI isn't very good on a small screen, and there is absolutely no difference to moOde's responsiveness between the Pi 4 and Pi Zero when controlling it this way. Using the larger Pi (an earlier version of this portable used a Pi 3 I had lying around) is just a lot less portable, and simply requires too much lego.
And I can power the Pi Zero W with my old phone charger.
