Release schedule?

[aj78]

Hi,

Great to see the release of v1.3-beta. I've been following both this project and Volumio since the divorce; I have a Raspberry Pi and an original Cubox (not the newer Cubox-i). Features-wise there isn't much to choose between the two projects at the moment (for me, anyway - I have well supported DACs and I'm not really interested in the streaming services). I'd prefer to run the same software on both my RPi and my Cubox.

I noted that the v1.3-beta release is "RPi only at the moment", but does that mean a release for the other platforms is a week away? A month? Six? I'm not after exact dates, you understand, but an indication of when a Cubox v1.3beta will be available would be really helpful. (Or even if it will be available at all; the current Cubox release is not up to the same version as the releases for other platforms.)

Thanks, and good luck.

Adrian.

[ACX]

Hi aj78,
the porting of the 0.3-beta on all the remaing platforms is the next step in our schedule. CuBox and CuBox-i are among them of course.
I can't tell you an exact schedule yet, because our daytime jobs don't let us do accurate plans... just let us have a rest after this huge release and then we'll come back to work for you

[aj78]

I've managed to get v1.3beta up and running on my first generation Cubox!

I used the Arch Linux Cubox image, the cookbook (partly), the Cubox-i packages from github (these work for the original Cubox too as it's all same-generation ARM code), the database file from the Raspberry Pi v1.3beta image and a lot of patience and trial and error. There are still some systemd glitches but I'm really happy with it, it performs well and stably using the built-in Kirkwood SPDIF and is nice and responsive - considerably more so than my Raspberry Pi running the same software (but that's as expected as it's an ARMv7 running at 1GHz with twice the RAM). I'm really chuffed; I will try to post a cookbook update for this platform for any other adventurous types in advance of the official image being released. Just as soon as I've got the systemd glitches sorted out.... So might not be for a while....

[ACX]

[aj78]

Yes, the optical SPDIF actually worked right from the start: Arch / ALSA recognise it correctly and it's picked up by RuneUI and listed correctly in the settings screen. The issues I still need to sort out are (I think) systemd related: Runeaudio is the first thing I've had based on systemd, and there are a few things that aren't as they should be (e.g. the rune helpers refuse to start from systemd at boot but starts fine manually with systemctl start; eth0 complains that it hasn't started successfully when it actually has). But as soon as I've sorted these out I'll write up the cookbook. I'm glad if it'll be of help

[ACX]

Great, we'll try to assist you if you get stucked with those problems anyway. Thank you very much for your contribution

[aj78]

[ACX]

Thank you Adrian, we will review your cookbook as soon as we focus ourselves on the porting on the CuBox. In the meanwhile, if somebody attempts an installation following it, please give feedback about it.

[mars68]

I was about to try to install on a Cubox-i and was wondering if anyone here had gone through the process of installing from scratch based on the guidelines yet ?

-- mars68

[aj78]

Not on a Cubox-i, but on an original Cubox. If you search the forum you'll find an updated "cookbook" I put together detailing my experiences. Note, since then the packages have been updated. When I updated I had a bit of a problem - eventually discovered that after installing the php-rune package you need to rebuild the phpredis-rune package to match. It can be done without too much bother but it will help if you've done stuff like building from source code, configuring systems before because the cookbook is pretty basic and might be out of date as the codebase gets updated.

But when you get it working I reckon you'll be delighted, the Cubox makes a very good platform for runeaudio. Will you be connecting your DAC via USB or the optical SPDIF? I'm doing the latter and it works excellently.