Thin clients can be a good alternative to the Raspberry Pi. I have Volumio installed on a Dell Wyse 3040 thin client, available used at roughly $50 from Ebay. This particular thin client has a cheap onboard DAC for a headphone jack, 16 GB flash drive, 2 GB RAM, but unfortunately no WiFi.
Adding WiFi was about $20 extra for a USB dongle.
This is not to disparage the Raspberry Pi, or any group buys. The case for the Wyse 3040 has a rough industrial appearance, and a correspondingly low Wife Approval Factor, but itās small enough to be tucked away somewhere out of sight.
Glad to be here. I already use Volumio on a Rock4 in my car. I would like to switch to more robust and easier equipment in the management of the ignition and extinction phases, among other things. there is this at an affordable price which can be managed by Carpc power supplies. This Asrock J4125-ITX has Spidif optics. Do you think that volumio will be able to agree? Thanks in advance Bernard.
Minis Forum N40 - Intel Celeron N4020 - 3 x USB 3.0 - LAN 1 Gbit/s - wifi AC 2.4 / 5 Ghz - 433 Mbit/s with Bluetooth - RAM 4GB - HDMI - VGA
EMMC 64 GB - SD Card Reader - M.2 SATA NGFF disk.
Work ok.
Brand: Intel NUC8i5PNB bare board
Model: i5-8365u
Boot: Local 128GB SSD M.2 or USB (legacy and UEFI Bios)
Version: 3.429 (I might be wrong here, dont remember )
After inserting USB, selected boot priority in Bios. Everything went very smooth and quick (within a minute I had Startup wizard). In System setting you can select copy installation to SSD (awesome feature, lets you modify/edit .css on usb and after you happy with UI, you can copy it).
Kiosk mode looks great on wide screen 14.1" LCD with some issues
Touch works without any plugins (only annoyance is the mouse cursor visible).
Now playing plugin does not work correctly for me, I will post in other thread.
Works with Wolumio 3.611 on HDMI2 but with restrictions. Canāt play 44.1kZ, 88.2kHz, and 176.4kHz files. Workaround by resampling to a supported freq. (ie 48kHz, 96kH and 192kHz)
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