Cubox-i for Dummies

PhantomGTR

jaker2d2 發表於 2014-7-15 17:20
Hi C HIng, do you have any update on the step 4 and step 5.

Or any more simple alternatives now av ...

http://www.post76.com/x2/forum.p ... 6&fromuid=80802

jaker2d2

Thanks C Hing !

PhantomGTR

jaker2d2 發表於 2014-7-15 18:12
Thanks C Hing !

mubox produces very very good sound, enjoy!!

hitimfuk

PhantomGTR兄：

我係新手，用Cubox-i4Pro, 剛剛boot up到Mubox. 只是透過Web GUI控制個Device.
請問Web GUI做唔做到 mount NFS 或 eSATA HDD ?

hitimfuk

而家都用到PuTTy控制佢, 不過搞唔掂條vi /etc/fstab.
打完之後出一大串野, 跟住鎖死於此狀態, 出唔番去.

baby-boy

真係好有用收藏左先

PhantomGTR

hitimfuk 發表於 2014-7-15 22:02
而家都用到PuTTy控制佢, 不過搞唔掂條vi /etc/fstab.
打完之後出一大串野, 跟住鎖死於此狀態, 出唔番去.
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1) 大不了重灌張 SD card，不用太擔心；
2) 你係咪係 NAS 到攞歌？set 好 NFS sharing

jaker2d2

PhantomGTR 發表於 2014-7-15 18:17
mubox produces very very good sound, enjoy!!

Thanks for comments but still CDROMing not start yet, aiming at Cubox-i2, is this hardware good enough for CAS ?
Will you suggest an entry level USB DAC to work with ?

PhantomGTR

jaker2d2 發表於 2014-7-16 00:47
Thanks for comments but still CDROMing not start yet, aiming at Cubox-i2, is this hardware good en ...

I suspect this one http://www.post76.com/x2/forum.p ... &extra=page%3D1 can produce better sound than my cubox-i4pro.

And for the DAC, any budget?

jaker2d2

PhantomGTR 發表於 2014-7-16 01:06
I suspect this one http://www.post76.com/x2/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=193811&extra=page%3D1 can ...

The i5 looks fine, I can easily buy from Taobao as I work everyday in China.
Price is a bit more than my budget but may be easier to set up hardware wise.

BTW, mine stereo is low end, thus not need high end DAC, may be several RMB from Taobao ?
Ditton DI-260 AMP, KEF R300 speaker, Original CD player A8.

Since I have a lot of APE, FLAC in my PC in bed room,
would like to have those music in my living room, thus considering
to get the network player for those music.

PhantomGTR

jaker2d2 發表於 2014-7-16 01:27
The i5 looks fine, I can easily buy from Taobao as I work everyday in China.
Price is a bit more  ...

Take it easy, there is no The Best, only The Better One.   So, just stick to you budget :)
And you can search DAC X-10 in this forum or TB.  I've used X-9, very impressive at this price, worth to try. :)

hitimfuk

After studying some info from the web, now I know I was not manipulating the vi command correctly. Will try it again tonight. I also play around with Daphile that can access my NAS smoothly.

BTW I found that the CuBox-i4Pro could not detect the HDD attached to the eSATA port. That HDD is a 5 bay enclosure of total 15T in RAID 5.

Is there any limitations of drive capacity by Voyage ?

PhantomGTR

hitimfuk 發表於 2014-7-16 11:41
After studying some info from the web, now I know I was not manipulating the vi command correctly. W ...

please try "nano" instead "vi" , it's another built-in text editor and much more user-friendly than "vi".  Did you setup NFS sharing in NAS?  If so, then it's very easy to setup in voyage, just don't get any typo.  that's for my synology nas
"192.168.x.xxx:/volume1/music /mnt/public nfs rw, noatime    0    0"
N.B. That "volume1" is must and default by Synology NAS.

BTW I found that the CuBox-i4Pro could not detect the HDD attached to the eSATA port. That HDD is a 5 bay enclosure of total 15T in RAID 5.   Is there any limitations of drive capacity by Voyage ?

No idea

Have Fun!

hitimfuk

Thanks, will try.

obee

hitimfuk 發表於 2014-7-16 11:41
After studying some info from the web, now I know I was not manipulating the vi command correctly. W ...

If you are talking about directing connecting hard disk thru sata port. You need to check with this command first:

1. fdisk -l

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and see if your drive exists.
If yes, then next step is to make a folder for system to mount, e.g.:

1. mkdir /mnt/mydisk

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then try to mount

1. mount /dev/xxx /mnt/mydisk

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(where xxx is checked from the first command)
if success, there should be no error return, try

1. ls /mnt/mydisk

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see if you see something
if it shows the content of your disk, then next step is to add a symbolic link to music root folder of MPD so that MPD sees your music

1. ln -s /var/lib/mpd/music/mydisk /mnt/mydisk

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try command

1. ls /var/lib/mpd/music/mydisk

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to make sure it is correct
last thing to do is add the mounting action to system so that it knows to auto mount for you each time it boots.

1. nano /etc/fstab

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add the a new entry after the last line like:

1. /mnt/mydisk    /dev/xxx     vfat    ro,rsize=10240 1 1

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(google and see if you need some fine tunning, like the read cache size, and the file system, either vfat or ntfs)
save the file and reboot, then after reboot, refresh MPD music DB on ipad and see if the music shows up or not.

hitimfuk

Obee,

You are really very helpful.
I had changed the config to read the music library from a PC that acts as a NAS. After hardworking through the Linux commands tonight I got a successful result.

I will try the eSATA connection in the future to see if the sound is better than LAN connection.

At the moment I will try comparing its sound performance against Daphile running on a Notebook. My prelim impression is they are quite close with a small edge on Mubox side. Now I am using a switching power adaptor, may be a LPS for Mubox will boost up its performance further.

Thanks for your instructions.

obee

hitimfuk 發表於 2014-7-16 23:06
Obee,

You are really very helpful.

Good!
Let's share more your audio experience on the two on R33 as well because Some ching like Welborne not visiting here.

jaker2d2

PhantomGTR 發表於 2014-7-16 01:51
Take it easy, there is no The Best, only The Better One.   So, just stick to you budget :)
And you ...

Thanks a lot for your valuable comments, will study more before getting the gears in hand.

PhantomGTR

hitimfuk 發表於 2014-7-16 23:06
Obee,

You are really very helpful.

LPS helps mubox produces much finer and definite sound.

Gary33

Thanks for good Sharing
我都買咗個Cubox-i4pro學人玩CAS,搞咗幾日都未連到Qnap NAS攞歌........真係要努力學習