simon
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Post by simon on Jan 18, 2017 22:02:51 GMT
Ubiquity do some really great 5gig links. Something like a pair of nano stations would work great if you have Line of sight to the Annex. but you still need to be able to get a network cable to the right location in the main house.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 18, 2017 22:35:32 GMT
That's possible, I could take a network cable from the hub in the kitchen to a nano station by the window. I'll investigate - thanks!
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Post by badsoden on Jan 18, 2017 23:17:33 GMT
How far apart are the buildings?
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Post by Stratmangler on Jan 18, 2017 23:22:49 GMT
Extending ethernet from the main house to annex may not be as simple as a wire in a trench. Bear in mind there will likely be a potential difference between the two buildings. This could result in smoking electronics. No it won't. There's no ground issue with UTP, because there's no ground to consider. It's all floating, and there are no ground planes between devices because it's all isolated by transformers.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 19, 2017 7:54:24 GMT
How far apart are the buildings? Only 30m or so. The Ubiquiti Nano M5 solution looks tempting.
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Post by badsoden on Jan 19, 2017 17:04:36 GMT
Was wondering if a long range external wireless AP would bridge the gap?
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Post by MartinT on Jan 19, 2017 17:27:31 GMT
I've tried a few Wi-Fi extenders with little joy. The 26% signal strength was the best I've obtained from any combination.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 19, 2017 21:00:37 GMT
Good Wi-Fi Dongle for Raspberry PiFor those, like me, who struggled to get the little Wi-Fi dongle with just "802.11n" written on the end to work reliably, I took advice from the Volumio forum and bought one of these: Olimex Ralink RT5370Works far better with Volumio and pulls in a good signal.
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simon
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Post by simon on Jan 19, 2017 22:47:21 GMT
That's possible, I could take a network cable from the hub in the kitchen to a nano station by the window. I'll investigate - thanks! We've used the ubiquity kit for all sorts at work and it's very reliable stuff and cheap considering the bandwidth. Good luck
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Post by MartinT on Jan 20, 2017 6:16:58 GMT
Cheers, Simon!
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Post by Clive on Jan 20, 2017 9:11:47 GMT
Extending ethernet from the main house to annex may not be as simple as a wire in a trench. Bear in mind there will likely be a potential difference between the two buildings. This could result in smoking electronics. No it won't. There's no ground issue with UTP, because there's no ground to consider. It's all floating, and there are no ground planes between devices because it's all isolated by transformers. I confess I was thinking of issues I saw way back in the early days of Ethernet - much cruder.
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Post by badsoden on Jan 20, 2017 18:20:21 GMT
I use Unifi kit at home. It's great stuff. Very reliable and the APs have a good range.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 24, 2017 20:55:21 GMT
Blimey, I tried again with the wi-fi link I have in the music room tonight and I'm streaming Spotify in hi-bitrate without any problems. Either the atmospherics are more favourable or all the tinkering worked. Whatever, I'm well pleased.
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Post by canetoad on Mar 14, 2017 9:04:35 GMT
I'm putting together an RPi3 and HiFiBerry Digi+ Pro board and I have a couple of questions.
What is the best way to reduce the 5 volt input to 3.3 volts, so I can supply the Digi+ board directly?
Does anybody have their RPi set up with an on-off switch? What solution have you used?
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Post by MartinT on Mar 16, 2017 10:24:57 GMT
Having now got my RPi2 with Digi+ running Volumio running nice and reliably, I'd like to pursue every available sound quality enhancement. I already have it running from a battery, which is a big step up. I'm now looking at the HiFiBerry Digi+ Pro and wondering if anyone has tried it yet? As well as enhanced clocks, it looks like you can feed it directly with power, but does it then power the Pi or do you feed that separately? Is there support in Volumio yet? Any experience out there?
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Post by MartinT on Mar 16, 2017 10:27:55 GMT
I'm putting together an RPi3 and HiFiBerry Digi+ Pro board and I have a couple of questions. What is the best way to reduce the 5 volt input to 3.3 volts, so I can supply the Digi+ board directly? For some reason, I didn't notice your posting. Does the Digi+ Pro require 3.3V? If so, that's probably worth a separate battery from the one I use which provides 5V and 12V for the Caiman.
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Post by ChrisB on Mar 16, 2017 11:27:26 GMT
Pretty sure volumio doesn't support it Martin. That's why I haven't bought one yet, at any rate.
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Post by MartinT on Mar 16, 2017 13:10:57 GMT
Yes, I just got a response back from HiFiBerry. That's fine, the Digi+ is doing a great job. They also told me it can take just a 5V external power supply, so that's worth doing at some point.
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Post by canetoad on Mar 17, 2017 6:53:16 GMT
I'm putting together an RPi3 and HiFiBerry Digi+ Pro board and I have a couple of questions. What is the best way to reduce the 5 volt input to 3.3 volts, so I can supply the Digi+ board directly? For some reason, I didn't notice your posting. Does the Digi+ Pro require 3.3V? If so, that's probably worth a separate battery from the one I use which provides 5V and 12V for the Caiman. Hi Martin,
The Digi+ Pro will work fine as is with the power supply coming from the RPi. It needs to be modified to feed both a 5v and 3.3v supply directly to it. It requires the removal of one resister. I think the RPi still needs to be fed 5v as well. I will send you an image.
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Post by MartinT on Mar 17, 2017 7:04:39 GMT
Thanks, Bernie.
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