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Quote:But September is later than August?

It is.....but given CORn have moved the goalposts from stock arriving 1 wk.... to arriving July 4th..... to arriving August 5th..... methinks that will continue.....

RS have a bigger organisation and connected-ness to the RPI Foundation and have given realistic time-frame....

CORn stock will probably arrive at the same time (or later )....They've over-promised and under-delivered 3 times already so I've no confidence in their advice..... the cynic in me says that the initial time-frames were orchestrated to gain orders but, hey what do I know....

How hard was it for them to  email  the RPI guys for delivery date ? .......so moving it 1mth then 2 mths....someones out of the loop there and it's not like the units are coming by sea !!  Airfreight does not take a month... or 2 months....

Then add that we didn't get email advice of the new delivery date... we had to log in to find out the bad news!!!.. hows that for sh*tty customer treatment...

Now they say I need to respond to an email they sent about power supply options....only they never sent any email....Ha! great way to duck an order by saying 'you didn't reply in timely fashion' when you couldn't 'cause you never got sent an advisory !!! 
I agree with your earlier emoji... only upgrade to +7  Lol       ie '7 kinds of...'

(04-Jul-2019, 02:46 PM)Bromf Wrote: [ -> ]It is.....but given CORn have moved the goalposts from stock arriving 1 wk.... to arriving July 4th..... to arriving August 5th..... methinks that will continue.....

RS have a bigger organisation and connected-ness to the RPI Foundation and have given realistic time-frame....

CORn stock will probably arrive at the same time (or later )....They've over-promised and under-delivered 3 times already so I've no confidence in their advice..... the cynic in me says that the initial time-frames were orchestrated to gain orders but, hey what do I know....

How hard was it for them to  email  the RPI guys for delivery date ? .......so moving it 1mth then 2 mths....someones out of the loop there and it's not like the units are coming by sea !!  Airfreight does not take a month... or 2 months....

Yeah.. Agreed - baited me and I took it hook line, sinker.

(04-Jul-2019, 02:46 PM)Bromf Wrote: [ -> ]Then add that we didn't get email advice of the new delivery date... we had to log in to find out the bad news!!!.. hows that for sh*tty customer treatment...

Now they say I need to respond to an email they sent about power supply options....only they never sent any email....Ha! great way to duck an order by saying 'you didn't reply in timely fashion' when you couldn't 'cause you never got sent an advisory !!! 
I agree with your earlier emoji... only upgrade to +7  Lol       ie '7 kinds of...'

I'll order the next one from RS then. thanks for the tip. Come to think of it, I usually order from them anyway.

Just got an email two hours ago that the order has been shipped. Yay!

I to and fo-ed several increasingly heated emails to them yesterday and lo-n-behold mine is confirmed shipped today too.... that's put them back in my good books.

Thanks for the heads-up about the firmware
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt...5#p1490467

(05-Jul-2019, 12:34 PM)Bromf Wrote: [ -> ]I to and fo-ed several increasingly heated emails to them yesterday and lo-n-behold mine is confirmed shipped today too.... that's put them back in my good books.

Thanks for the heads-up about the firmware
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt...5#p1490467

Yup. that's the one. Of all the boards I have tried so far, this shows the most promise. This might mean I am going to either deprecate the current existing Pi edition, or release a new one for Pi 4B.

Can't decide what to do yet, but for what's its worth, I am going to focus more on this Pi 4 and see what it's capable of.. More R&D in the months ahead.

The Pi4/4 has enough spare memory that one could hive off 3GB to a ramdisk and have a play-from-ram option...we know that 1GB runs the o/s just fine.
I"ve been trialing it on a Pi2b (using another Pi o/s ). Once the Pi4/4 gets here I will do some serious investigating....

"Most recent updateReceived by Australia Post"
In the system bro...

(05-Jul-2019, 05:50 PM)Bromf Wrote: [ -> ]"Most recent updateReceived by Australia Post"
In the system bro...

Yup. Will get mine next week!

My Pi4/4 arrived a couple of hours ago...... currently playing web-radio to usb dac and watching temperatures.... seems to be hovering around 54'C.
Still tossing up whether to do the firmware upgrade... there are a few posts about usb troubles after..... might use a fan until everything is sorted.

Powering with an official Pi3 supply via the micro-usb to usb-C adapter that came with it. That is supposed to be good unless total load on usb out is over 500mA.... then I'll just add a hub..

(10-Jul-2019, 08:29 AM)Bromf Wrote: [ -> ]My Pi4/4 arrived a couple of hours ago......

Mine will be a while.... Next monday.

 

(10-Jul-2019, 08:29 AM)Bromf Wrote: [ -> ]currently playing web-radio to usb dac and watching temperatures.... seems to be hovering around 54'C.
Still tossing up whether to do the firmware upgrade... there are a few posts about usb troubles after..... might use a fan until everything is sorted.

You can revert to the older running firmware allegedly.. So should be safe ?

 

(10-Jul-2019, 08:29 AM)Bromf Wrote: [ -> ]Powering with an official Pi3 supply via the micro-usb to usb-C adapter that came with it. That is supposed to be good unless total load on usb out is over 500mA.... then I'll just add a hub..

Side note, if you or another experienced problems with powering, it's because you're using a USB-C laptop adaptor (or similiar). Use a normal 5V 3A charger and things will be fine. For more info, read here.