24-04-2016, 22:34
(24-04-2016, 12:07)Wizza Wrote: Has anyone here tried Pi3..?
I've had Cumulus MX running on an RPi 3 since a week after the RPi 3 was released. It works very well. I'm currently using the built in WiFi, so it's nice to not have USB dongles hanging off it.
The genuine Rasberry Pi power supplies are really good - they output 5.1v, so I've never seen the dreaded "overlay" when running from one. Bought mine from RS-Online, so I didn't have to pay for shipping.
You may want to contrive some form of 5v "UPS" to keep things running when the power fails. The Raspberry Pis have a nasty habit of killing their SD cards - often when the power fails while the card is being written to. For this reason, mine writes to a MySQL database hosted externally and does a daily backup of the Cumulus MX data directory to the same external server.

