[jerome_oneil]

Originally Posted by Glennbo

Are you using Windows IoT for these projects, and couldn't the same thing be done with a Linux variant (like Raspbian) to bypass any Microsoft involvement?

We use Raspian for them. We need these things to handle tons of filtering, so Python, awk, etc.. are important to us. We looked at Windows IoT for some of the computational load and GPS work, but it was easier just to move the data in house and do it there.

I have to wonder what additional communication goes on between Windows IoT and Microsoft when you use Windows IoT for your own projects.

None with these no matter what they run. There is no internet access for them. If you aren't in my office, they don't exist.

I use my Pi as a media center streaming 1920x1080 full frame .TS video for one of it's normal tasks. The solid finned aluminum case I put on mine employs thermal paste on each of the main chips, so even though I am hammering it for hours on end streaming recorded movies and such, it never stutters or has any kind of stability issues.

That's not really an industrial application. That is a pretty typical consumer use case and they're fine for that. I do the same thing at my house. I have one running Volumio.

Mine sit in rail yards hooked up to 220MHZ radios that require at least 75vdc to operate, attached to 12' whip antennas that are subject to atmospheric events like getting smoked by lightning. So they get cooked pretty frequently.

You can see the Pi shelf on the bottom of the rack.



This is the back of the rack that contains the locomotive radios.



We are looking at replacing all of that with a single Cisco integrated service router. We can deploy code directly into the router as Docker containers. It makes the package a whole lot smaller, removes a ton of moving parts, and only requires infrastructure to support the radios. And it's a whole lot more reliable because the ISR is designed for industrial tasks.

I hooked my DAW's eight input rack mount audio interface up to my Pi, and it did quite well recording four tracks of drums at once while playing back two guitars and a bass track, all with multiple FX like compressors, EQs, and reverbs. More than using one for multi-tracking like my test, I could see using one as a multi-track field recorder. Especially the new model 4.

That's great, but the only question I have is "why?" I can get four really good tracks out of a handheld field recorder. In fact, my Zoom is frequently used for just that. I use the two external channels and configure a recorderman setup, and then hang the recorder and its coincident pair over the top of the kit.

I can't conceive of what I would get out of doing this on a Pi other than the "Gee that's neat, I did this on a Pi" aspect.