Feedback on official x86 platforms is welcome

[admin]

Quite a few users already switched to ebox, fit-PC Slim or ALIX. There are about 30 x86 systems out there, by now. I have been engaged on a few setup questions but after that I haven't heard much of these. That might be a good sign ;-)

However, I would very much appreciate, if users having done the migration could give us some feedback. That might be interesting for other users who haven't decided yet and me, of course, to further improve the x86 build.

What is the experience of our "early x86 adopters"?

[oppen]

Ich schreib mal auf deutsch da mein Englisch wirklich schlecht ist.

Ich habe die ebox 4300 mit 512 MB RAM im Einsatz. Gekauft habe ich hier: http://barebone-online.de/advanced_sear ... ox+OR+4300
Abwicklung war schnell und unkompliziert.

Als CF-Card setze ich diese hier ein:
http://www.cyberport.de/item/1222/1016/ ... -card.html

Bei der Installation hatte ich zwei Punkte an denen es hakte:
1. die Tastatur muss über den PS2-Anschluss an der ebox angeschlossen werden
2. CF-Laufwerk auf Master umstellen, den Hebel zum Umstellen übersieht man schnell...

Ansonsten läuft das System im Moment mit einer VP2 mit Weatherlink IP ohne Probleme. Der Seitenaufruf "System Info" dauert länger als bei der NSLU.
Dafür liefert die ebox das Dashbord bei externem Zugriff ca. 1 - 2 Sekunden schneller. Weitere Dienste habe ich aus Zeitmangel noch nicht einrichten können.

Im Gegensatz zur NSLU erzeugt die ebox merklich Wärme und stört schwache Funksignale meiner WMR 928NX.
Ich habe die WMR-Basis im Keller neben meinem Serverschrank (u.a. NSLU) und nur selten Empfangsprobleme. Schalte ich die ebox im Serverschrank an, verliert die WMR den Funkkontakt. Bei Ausschalten der ebox ist dieser sofort wieder da!

Wenn Fragen sind, nur her damit

Beste Grüße oppen

[skyewright]

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hat is the experience of our "early x86 adopters"?

As mentioned in other threads I'm now running an ALIX 1D.
I'll not repeat what I've mentioned elsewhere, but in essence the install went smoothly.

At present the ALIX is in Demo mode, and the NSLU2 is still running as before. After I've had the ALIX running for a few days I hope to move the licence over.

The ALIX is being fed exactly the same data as the NSLU2 by having it connected to NSLU2 using the TCP/IP meteohub server option.

Earlier today I did a Meteohub Application Data backup on the NSLU2 and restored that on the ALIX.
The backup/restore went smoothly (restore was much faster than backup) but inevitably it left the ALIX with a short gap in the data between the end of the backup and the time of restore. I plugged that gap by getting both SAMBA shares visible on another computer, then I stopped logging on the ALIX, quickly copied the raw file for this month from NSLU2 to ALIX, then restarted logging and initiated a Recompute. Now the two Meteohubs have exactly the same data except for a couple of anemometer readings (and it was flat calm at that time anyway). :cheer:

An alternative would have been to wait January then copy or patch the 200812 raw without stopping logging?

Recompute on the ALIX is much faster! :cheer: A recompute on the NSLU2 yesterday took 6 hours or so. I haven't timed a recompute on the ALIX (it might be nice if start and end of recompute appeared in the meteohub log, as happens with backups?) but it's a lot less - I did a couple of full recomputes this afternoon in less time than one would take on the NSLU2!

Looking at html files generated from the same template on both Meteohubs, I seem to see the Month and Year values updating a little sooner on the ALIX, but maybe that's just a coincidence?

One strange thing, and maybe Boris can comment on this is that the size of exactly the same data on the ALIX is substantially less!

NSLU2

Code: Select all

Data:	949MB of 3180MB used (29%)

ALIX 1D

Code: Select all

Data:	502MB of 2756MB used (18%)

Maybe some file system corruption or 'dead' files on the NSLU2? Or some thing else?

[skyewright]

One strange thing, and maybe Boris can comment on this is that the size of exactly the same data on the ALIX is substantially less!

A day later, and with both systems updated to 3.2d and given time to settle down to a normal System Load (which took a couple of hours for the NSLU2), data sizes are now more comparable, with 893MB for the ALIX 1D and 969MB for the NSLU2. Strange.

Now running recompute with the new 3.2d on the NSLU2, then later I'll do one on the ALIX 1D for comparison. Results to be reported in http://www.meteohub.de/joomla/index.php ... 1&catid=22 in due course...

[Salwa]

Is my understanding correct that a WMR928 (with only serial connection) will work directly connected on the serial port (w/o USB-converter) on all of the officially suported x86-boxes, except fit-PC Slim?