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Post by jhornbr225 on May 7, 2019 19:01:39 GMT -5
This is really weird. I know it said the 15th, but this afternoon it changed to the 16th. Now it's in Grove City, OH. That's a suburb on the southwest side of Columbus. It's probably 2.5 hours drive from my house. I'm hoping it's not like this other thing I ordered a while back. It came through Grove City, then it went to somewhere in PA, then went back to the other side of Columbus from Grove City, then finally to me. I still don't see how it could take another 9 days.
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Post by COMpulse on May 9, 2019 6:59:06 GMT -5
My delivery now says May 12th on the DLI website, and the FedEx site says May 13th. Very weird. If I had known it would be like this, I might have considered the 2-day shipping option. I think it was like $15.
There have been huge storms and flooding through the midwest this week, so that could cause a delay. But I hate it when something says "yes you will get this thing on this day" and then they're like "nope, now it's gonna be 3 days later".
This seems like a FedEx issue, not a DLI issue. Unless they use some super ghetto shipping option. After doing some googling, this seems common with FedEx. I may try to avoid them going forward.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 9, 2019 9:54:52 GMT -5
Yes, I agree. My original date was supposed to be the 6th, then got moved to the 15th, then the 16th, now I'm back to the 13th. I don't put any stock in the dli estimate. I feel a little better about going right to FedEx.
Just as I thought, my package went from Grove City, OH, (Columbus), to Clinton PA, It drove by my house on the way to Clinton. Now, it's been passed off to USPS.
I think FedEx Overnight or Two-Day is OK. Then, it's on a plane, and it moves. This FedEx ground stuff sucks. Lately it seems to be doing more sitting than moving. It sat at Grove City from noon Tuesday to 4AM Wednesday, then it took 8 hours to get to Clinton PA. Then it sat 12 hours in Clinton before USPS picked it up. You would think the USPS could move a package 90 miles before Monday. Hopefully I'll get it Friday or Saturday. I guess the good thing about USPS is that they deliver on Saturday. I hope USPS does not send it back to Columbus.
For me the normal shipping was $15, I think the next option up was another $20 on top of that. That there is the price of the Atomic Pi. Originally it said $12 to Ohio, but at checkout it went to $15.91. I see the price of the Atomic Pi itself is up a little today. It's now $35.71. I paid $34, and $15.91 shipping.
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Post by revheadkev on May 9, 2019 19:00:10 GMT -5
I work for a company which supplies and installs conveyor equipment for freight companies and distribution centres. The thing with shipping is that most freight companies have hubs where they transport things between major cities before sorting/distributing into smaller route trucks for final delivery. It could be that FedX has hubs at Grove City and Clinton, with Clinton being the distribution centre where parcels get handed over to a secondary carrier, namely USPS, which might also have a hub in Clinton for there local deliveries. Freight companies also have inbound receival times in the morning and outbound forwarding times in the afternoon for overnight transport with only the local deliveries going out in the morning for delivery that day. Cross-dock forwarded freight sits in the centre until the outbound loading in the afternoon. All this might explain your parcel's movements and waiting times.
Also companies who have low-cost shipping options usually batch all shipment together until enough to fill a trailer and then call the freight company to pick it up rather than call for a small courier van to pick up a small quantity of parcels. That keeps their freight costs down and allows them to keep your shipping costs lower. The higher shipping costs for quick delivery are usually the extra costs the company incurs when they call for a small truck to collect a couple of parcels for immediate shipping that day.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 9, 2019 20:27:01 GMT -5
Yeah, I understand that they do things in the most efficient manner possible for their business. Hell, that's their business, moving stuff around. It's just aggravating that my first arrival date was the 6th, then it moved to the 15th, then the 16th, and now the 13th. Maybe it's just me, but I think almost $16 to ship less than a pound, by ground, from CA to OH is a little much. Now literally it's a 2 hour drive from my house, but it's going to be another 4 days before I get it.
Of course, I'm really spoiled by the Amazon Prime. What do you mean it won't be here in 2 days? Heck, the last couple Amazon orders I put in offered free Next Day Shipping. That was cool.
And if my Free Two Day Shipping package does not arrive in two days? Call and complain. I've gotten a couple $25 credits. Although over the past year they have switched to giving a free month of Prime. It's about a $9 retail value to me, like very low cost to them. But hey, it's something. It just kicks my renewal a month further into the future than it was supposed to be.
dli's website also said it was UPS shipping, but it turned into a FedEx tracking number, and now it's been handed off to USPS. I know, tomAto, tomAWto.
Good thing I'm not explicitly waiting on this to use it for something.
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Post by COMpulse on May 10, 2019 6:16:59 GMT -5
FedEx now says I will receive it today.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 10, 2019 9:10:51 GMT -5
At 9:30AM mine shows in transit to US Postal service with the location being my local post office. If it makes it to the post office before 10:30 or so, it might go out for delivery today. It still says Monday though. It's a very small post office. I could go over this afternoon and pick it up.
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Post by COMpulse on May 10, 2019 10:14:53 GMT -5
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 10, 2019 10:25:33 GMT -5
Looks like you'd still have to buy memory though.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 10, 2019 15:14:36 GMT -5
Atomic Pi is here! I cheated a little bit. I saw that it had left a hub a few towns over early this morning, but had not shown up at my local Post Office. Assuming that it had gotten there, but not early enough to make it out for today's delivery, I stopped by there on my way back from looking at the Ford Ranger that dumped all it's tranny fluid. And lo and behold, it was there! It's a very small Post Office. I was actually on a cart, right by the door, and there was only one other package on the cart. It took the guy 3 seconds to find it. Now I gotta figure out how to turn it on. It looks like there is a reset switch populated on the board, but no power switch. Time to research.
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Post by COMpulse on May 10, 2019 16:07:41 GMT -5
Yeah, I got mine as well. Even with the breakout board, I'm looking at it like "okay, now what".
Not sure, but this thing kind of looks like it wants 5v and 12v input.
I'll probably screw a fan into the fins of the heat sink.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 10, 2019 16:39:29 GMT -5
The 12V is only if you want to use the built-in audio chip at 10W per channel. I think if you power it with 5V only, it will give like 1W or something like that. Only 5V is required if you are not going to use that built in amp. At least 2.5A, it looks like. And with the breakout board, it looks easy to get the power in. I have some 10 pin plugs that will plug into the 26 pin connector on the bottom side of the board. Tomorrow I'll solder a little perf board to the 10 pin plug and some 14AWG wire, red and black, and then cover it with hot glue. I've already got the 10 pin trimmed to fit onto the 26 pin. And the configuration of that 10 pin allows me to skip pins 1 and 2, the 12V and one of the ground pins respectively. So 5V will go to pins 3,5,7,9,11, and ground to 4,6,8,10,12 with 14AWG wire, powered from a little steel chassis 5V 6A supply that I have. The 10 Pin all trimmed up. The extra space to the left side allows it to skip pins 1 + 2. Here it is sitting where it will go. It's not pushed to it's final position, but it goes in and out no problem. I already have some standoffs screwed into the APi as well. I'll cut some perf board and solder and hot glue tomorrow.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 11, 2019 20:10:47 GMT -5
I soldered up and hot glued the piece of perf board and 14AWG wire this morning, but failed to bring it inside to play with tonight after working on the car all day. Not sure if I'll get a chance to play tomorrow either.
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Post by jhornbr225 on May 17, 2019 15:02:35 GMT -5
Been playing with the APi a little. Got it booted, plugged in my USB soundcard, played about 5 seconds of music, the PulseAudio went away. It appears that this is a common problem with the image that shipped on it. After playing with that for a while, typing commands trying to re-install and re-start PulseAudio, and getting all sorts of other errors, I decided to upgrade to the latest image, which according to posts on the APi forum, appears to be stable, and fixes many problems.
I downloaded it, and following instructions, used dd to copy it over to the eMMC. After that, I don't see the eMMC as a boot device, and it won't boot.
So today I followed some instructions to load Win10 as Windows To Go onto a 240GB Kingston A400 SSD ($29.99 on Amazon), that I have in a USB3.0 to SATA enclosure. I used Version 1803. So after getting it booted, and setting up a few things, I copied Driveline over to it. I also copied a half dozen Artist's music that I have over to test with.
Somehow my modified version of Driveline 3-11 on my local network is borked, I get a fatal nonUI error when trying to start. I'll have to copy the working version off the car PC back onto my network. In the meantime, I copied over the stock version of 3-11, and changed the settings to customize it to me. It seems to run OK. It's a little slower than the car PC, but it is a slower processor, and it's running Windows To Go through the USB3.0 port. It boots to music in 68 seconds, which I'm sure is faster than the car PC. But there are no other programs installed, and no USB devices plugged in other than a mouse, keyboard, USB soundcard, and USB3.0 hard drive. And currently Windows is not activated.
I went into task manager and disabled Microsoft Onedrive and Windows Defender notifications. Startup went to 63 seconds. Sample size of one though.
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Post by COMpulse on May 17, 2019 15:57:12 GMT -5
68 seconds.. woof.
I haven't booted my APi yet. Been playing with the RPi and google assistant. Pretty satisfied. I made an image of the SSD in my RPi, and then moved the RPi to the living room in place of the Steam Link. We'll see how it goes when the wife and I play Civilization this weekend. The emulators are nice. I'm gonna miss having this thing in my office. Might be time for another RPi. Or two. But you get nickel-and-dimed on the stuff the RPi needs. $20 for a case, $30 for an mSATA SSD, $10 for a USB mic, $25 for an IR receiver, $45 for a game controller. I guess that ain't bad for a fully functional device. Anyway, I'm thinking about a "magic mirror" project next.
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