[PD] wireless audio from Pd to PA system (katja)

[katja]

Hi Chris, thanks for your advice. You're right, Chinese manufacturers are
generally not supportive to open source, which is a pity as they are
designing and producing most of the hardware today.

Katja


On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:43 AM, chris clepper <cgclepper at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:41 PM, katja <katjavetter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> If further experiments are promising enough, I would try this board for
>> the receiver:
>>
>> https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A13/A13-OLinuXino-WIFI/
>>
>>
> I have been running Pd on this board for a few weeks now.  In general, it
> works OK, but the ADC is not so good and adds a lot of latency.  Just DAC
> output can be 10ms latency with passable sound.  All of the Pd example
> patches run fine with the FFT ones topping out around 50% CPU load.  That's
> with nothing else running.  Any network activity will cause dropouts even
> at large buffer settings though.
>
> The WiFi works with a few tweaks to the settings for your network.
>
> The drawback with the Allwinner based chips is you have to take whatever
> the chip maker gives you for documentation and drivers (slim and none
> basically).  The Chinese SoC makers have zero interest in orders less than
> a half million units and they mainly make those under $100 7" tablets and
> bad set top boxes.  If something doesn't work, then it likely won't ever
> work - don't hold out for improved ALSA drivers for example.
>
> I would see what the new BeagleBone looks like too.  It's supposed to be
> cheaper and improved plus TI does support open source better than most.
>
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