MW? Are you sure of your units?

Oops, thanks for spotting that. What I read doesn’t always store in RAM without corruption so fixed it! 😳

For anyone interested in UK generation: https://grid.iamkate.com/

The UK is currently producing around 40GW (* fixed) and apparently there’s 70GW (* fixed) in data connection load pending approval. Yet we can’t even meet the 40GW (* fixed) load the UK already has.

So we really need to focus on putting solar and batteries in every house before we throw money at more wind/solar farms. That’ll free up a bunch of power, but more importantly, most homes will be shielded from the cost because they’ll produce there own.

Until it doesn’t… the government seems to be putting in regulations where the grid control your battery allowing them to dump your battery to the grid anytime they need it and charge you for recharging it later. 🤦‍♂️

You couldn’t make it up!

• Damn fixed MW to GW… memory of a sieve!

Shouldn’t be that difficult I’ve yet to hear any politician giving real answers to questions. All you get is misdirection or nonanswers. Come up with real solutions to real problems… except they wont because they most involve taxing the thieves!

And then they wonder why Farage gets so much attention, he does usually answer questions and regardless of it being the truth or not, I’d guess most people are tired of listening to nonanswers!

Well, in case anyone thinks of torturing yourself building doing, don’t use SD cards!

Set everything up but there was a little stuttering and no amount of offloading to ram eliminated it so now testing an NVME drive thru USB. Again, not ideal but I’m not in a rush to pay inflated PI prices so while I have a 2TB NVME hat, I don’t have a PI 5 so… make do where you can! lol

My plan was to get a 2-3TB but thought it’d be too much so tried shoehorning it before remembering I already had the drive! 🤦‍♂️ 🤨

I run my own unifi setup so network stuff spread over a number of devices so don’t really have much of an issue. The zero’s only do audio streaming though on minimal os that can’t phone home or update and they seem ok so far but atm i’m still breaking stuff while i tweak stuff, lol

But when i leave them alone to play they seem to do fine. I mean they should all cache a few seconds of audio so drop outs aren’t an issue, the problem with most wifi is likely too many devices on 1 AP or poor reconnect coding which unifi seem pretty good with. 😎

I’m in the process of building a multi-room audio system atm.

Snapserver/snapclients for the streaming audio, 1 audio stream with mpd to be set as 24/7 music, 1 for podcasts, 1 for alerts.

Alerts interrupt both streams to play the alerts. PI 4 for the main audio stack, first speaker, 2nd PI zero w/pirate radio hat/2 5w speakers for the portable speaker that should run most of the day on battery.

PodFetch gets the podcasts, script creates a playlist each day to play the oldest podcasts first. Although kinda surprised PodFetch doesn’t seem to let me do this.

Once it all runs smoothly i’ll put PI Zero W’s/Speakers in the other room and then going to build a 7” esp32 display to allow selecting which speaker plays which stream. Maybe later do something where each stream plays a different genre.