RNBO, other distrib linux plans ?
Hi there,
there are some people (some students here in the studio too) interested to try to install/run the RNBO Runner on Ubuntu for instance (for interfacing Jetson Nano).
Would it be a plan at some point to go to ubuntu ? or other distrib?
I'm not sure if we're willing to manage distribution for other linux distros but you can already build for them yourself, and for .deb based distros like ubuntu you can build a .deb package.
I've updated the instructions for that here: https://github.com/Cycling74/rnbo.oscquery.runner/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#build-requirements
Thanks Alex.
Yes. I wouldn't have time to "manage" many distros myself too.
I'll give a try especially to test with rpi5.
Thanks for the reminder for the building process.
FYI, RPI 5 will be supported with RNBO 1.3 which will be available very soon.
This is very good.
I know there is no audio port on the rp5
(BTW I didn't investigate how/why we can't use the native one with rnbo. I know it is about jack)
But I played with processing in rpi as an alternative to computer for "small" AV installation. It works fine. For automating everything and starting everything at boot time with service etc.
Next play too : drive some audio analysis using rnbo of our immediate street environment, and log the result in txt file on the rasp using python interface between rnbo and the file system. And play with the analysis data for... Generating visuals and sound too.
Could use it for a commissioned workshop incoming...
Never finished and infinite explorations...
BTW, I'm actually able to get the runner to use the headphone output on a PI 4, but I have to setup jack manually as the runner doesn't (yet) have the configuration options I need.
jackd -d alsa -d hw:Headphones -r 44100 -i 0 -o 2
I have a ticket in to allow for passing more options to jack when creating a server from the pi.
We had success with this. Even if we started to have some habits with a couple of interfaces like a small audio-technica with plug-in power, or Audio Shim DAC (thanks to Tom for having posting it), or pisound.
And I agree about the use of the "name" itself instead of the number. We got some bad surprises while texting our darkice stream cast and not naming them, but using their ID. Usb enumeration order is often funky!