How Long Would It Take for You to RoadTest the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (prep, testing and writing)?

I did this Pi 4 Roadtest a few years back:  /products/roadtest/rv/roadtest_reviews/685/roadtest_the_raspber

I can’t remember now but would guess it took at least 24 hours. 

I did this Pi 4 Roadtest a few years back:  /products/roadtest/rv/roadtest_reviews/685/roadtest_the_raspber

I can’t remember now but would guess it took at least 24 hours. 

The Pi4 was also a component in the Sound and Vibration Measurement Hat for Raspberry Pi.

I didn't spend too much time reviewing the Pi, but it got used in anger while I focused on the DAQ hat. Using the Pi4 for the 1st time, with the Buster OS, was easy.

What was total time for test, documentation,  and posting ? 

For that road test? A Lot. I'd say 80 hours at least. Most likely more.

Not all of that time was efficiently used. Sometimes it was just fiddling around and see how things behaved. For the test gizmo I traveled to a makerspace and worked with balearicdynamics . 

For the SCPI server and LabVIEW drivers and test flows, the hours are uncountable (and unaccounted for). Many of those hours were spent with shabaz  on chat. He was working on a MatLab integration.

For the industry-relevant calculations and analytics, I worked with friend martinvalencia  from Peru, at (my) night. He taught me all the calculus, and what KPIs were critical for predictive maintenance in heavy industry (mining).

I keep working on it (and blogging about it - although that goes unnoticed these days). Recently I tested a circuit (a good one !!) from michaelkellett on the road test kit. 

That was a great RoadTest, especially bouncing ideas off each other! It helped we are in the same approx timezone too. People can do a lot with such high-res data acquisition with Pi, it's a great combination.

I've got a little list of features requests, waiting to submit them as soon as the site stability is there!

One of them is that whenever anyone replies, they get a choice of 2 buttons: one will subscribe them (i.e. the button should be "Reply and Subscribe" which will subscribe to all notifications (i.e. edits to the blog and any replies) and the smaller button next to it should be "Reply" which will not affect the subscription/notifications). That way, those that want granular control as it is today, still have it, but everyone else can have the improvement. Similarly for Likes, when people click on it, there should immediately be a pop-up, to either confirm the like, or to confirm _and_ subscribe. It will slow down 'Likes' slightly, but I can't see that could be a problem, or there simply should be a another option, i.e. a "Like&Subscribe" button. Also, the site messaging remains the same, if the pop-up is in JavaScript or if there is a separate button and no pop-up.

The latter could also encourage Likes because people will do that "Like&Subscribe' whenever they want to quickly be subscribed.

I tried to work around the unnoticed comments this morning, and wrote a new blog to collect all of them.

Unfortunately, the forum "home page indexer" isn't picking up new stuff at the moment. The forum updater last indexed 10 hours ago. Blogs not detected since yesterday evening.

I know I am generalizing but the site performance appears to favoured Monday to Friday and the other days you get what is working until Monday. There is no weekend warranty.

Hi Jan,

I was going to say I didn't see an e-mail either, but I just checked now and it was there, so I can't blame Verint for that : (

Although, perhaps the message format could be better redesigned, if we are really not going to have preview of content in them. In your blog e-mail scenario, there actually is content, but the preview looks the same. Would be nice to see the username of the person who blogged, in the preview, or the title of the e-mail. 

Also this dumb view is not fit for purpose, having to scroll through a 1-inch square window! I know there is a "View all" link, but I shouldn't have to navigate away just to work around that view:

You already have to be subscribed to see the mails or notifications. On the homepage you are available for google crawler and anyone. Once it misses home page and goes to notifications only, it's only seen by people I know. New joiners or visitors will not see it.