Asset UPnP - upgrade Pi to Pi2?

Posted by: Graham Russell on 29 September 2015

This is a bit of a techie question. I currently run Asset UPnP on a Raspberry Pi Model B with a 4GB SD card. I have no problems and system load looks to be very low when transcoding Flac to WAV so the hardware looks to be totally capable.

 

I'm wondering if anyone has upgraded to a new Pi2 and if there are any benefits. I guess perhaps with a faster CPU and more memory that browsing albums etc via a client may be more responsive.

 

I also have Asset UPnP running on a Windows XP PC and it is much more responsive when browsing, but the files are local rather that being across a network mount on the Pi.

 

Thanks for any thoughts

Graham

 

Posted on: 29 September 2015 by Adrian_P

An original Pi is fine for transcoding and streaming as you have found, but a Pi2 will be much faster for browsing, navigation and search, even if the files are on a remote drive mounted with CIFS. Asset builds a local index when it scans your collection. When you are browsing you are navigating this local index, so no network overhead involved. The extra muscle on the Pi2 makes this local navigation much faster.

Posted on: 29 September 2015 by Graham Russell

Thanks Adrian. You have confirmed my suspicions. 

Posted on: 30 September 2015 by Simon-in-Suffolk

Yes, I upgraded to the Pi2.. asset certainly is noticanly quicker. However MinimServer is quicker still.

Both the Pi and Pi2 stream quick enough to fully fill the Naim streamer buffers requiring the Naim streamer to tell the server to back off.

Simon