Hi Frank,
I hope you're still checking this topic
I'm still happily using 0.3 on my Pi 3B v1.20 with iqaudio-dacplus but recently checked out this forum again. "Lockdown" and all that... I see some very new stuff but this 0.4 image would seem to be the best software upgrade for me - I have the 7" touchscreen that "just worked" and looked good with 0.3 but maybe 0.4 would make it look even more lovely
I do love this Rune interface on my DAC.
Question 1: is the link at the head of this topic for the image correct for the latest work on 0.4? I know that there is also a 0.5 and others but I'm interested in this particular one as it's an incremental change from what I've got right now. I like the changes you've made and especially the screensaver function looks good but the HiFi audio is the whole point of the thing for me and I have no need to change my "old" version on that score, so far as I can tell. MPD etc all works fine for me just as it is. I have an ethernet connection to the internet and my NAS so WiFi is not required.
Question 2: does this 0.4 image improve / update the Midori version from the one in 0.3? I ask because I have found that Midori romps away with CPU and heats it up unnecessarily - strangely this behaviour seems to manifest itself especially when webradio streams are in use. Midori seems to suffer from this kind of thing sometimes, e.g:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/midori/+bug/1103102I resorted to this (example below) - it's actually not too bad here at 15% but I have seen the CPU at >65% for Midori at another time and load average up to 0.97 over 15 minutes - which raised CPU +10 deg C, to 60 deg C in 20 deg room ambient
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[root@runeaudio ~]# ps -eo pid,ppid,cmd,%mem,%cpu --sort=-%mem | head
PID PPID CMD %MEM %CPU
630 623 midori -p -e Fullscreen htt 11.3 14.7
609 592 /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg : 3.1 1.6
519 1 /usr/bin/mpd --no-daemon 2.6 0.3
560 558 php-fpm: pool display 1.4 0.0
368 1 /usr/bin/php /var/www/comma 1.3 0.0
566 1 /usr/bin/php /var/www/comma 1.3 0.0
...
[root@runeaudio ~]# kill -TERM 630
This works if I want to leave the radio playing all day after I have booted normally (browser enabled) then ssh to the Pi to kill Midori - I could try to write a script to do it with one command but the better solution would be to get Midori fixed... What do you think?
Hope you're well anyway? Thanks for all the work - I'm still enjoying the results.
Tim