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Site to locate raspberry pis, and quick dev update
🕑 Added 2022-03-26 00:36:05 +0000 UTCHello again! I am always trying to help others find raspberry pis, and have a new site that may be helpful that I learned about today. The site is: https://rpilocator.com/. They have a stock alert RSS feed. The bad news is that I don't see ANY Raspberry pi 4 2gig on there, but I'll keep updating you as I do.
Development is continuing and I'm deep in a major update that I'm trying to get out by the end of this month, but it may be early next month at this point. I am excited to be done with it and it'll have some fun features that many of you have asked for. I've put about 26 hours into it so far this month alone, and I expect it'll take another 8-10 hours to get into a beta state. You can imagine how many cool things are coming there.
One other note, I've got another developer on board, and a volunteer that is doing social media work to help get things like discord and a forum setup. That should be soon.
In other news, I'm testing some prototype hardware for a 'high end' version to see if we can support things like full 4k, and overlays on video. After a TON of work on the pi4, I've determined, at this time, that there is not a way for me to keep performance acceptable and do an overlay. This means that the infobar and video playback will continue to not work together on a pi4. I fought hard to figure that out, and have numerous mails and forum posts asking for assistance, but at this time the ONLY thing I've found that can do it is the libelec branch, and that's not something that I can distribute commerciallly (also it brings in other issues).
That being said, I have confirmed I can do it with a better GPU and less constrained drivers, so I'm seeing if I can find some hardware to enable that...and some other goodies.
That's all for now. Back to the code so we can get to the next big release!
Comments
Do you expect that the upgraded performance with better CPU (Windows?) will be compatible with existing work?
Joe Farro
I could, and currently that’s the behavior as it’s seen. It bar should be working when images are displayed and videos show over them. We have a possible fix but for now I am focused on shipping the features that are in the next build that we have done
