When using a harddrive and doggle to link to tx site, do you remotely log into to your harddrive desk top to set up the link

lol

You mean a Computer and a Dongle?
How are you linking?
The post is confusing Careless, not sure how you're linking and with what.
If you are receiving the Audio and directly feeding it into the rig ( Raspberry Pi - etc ) set the link up first and make sure everything is working before you plug into your rig and trot off.
Nothing worse than dealing with issues when " on-site ".

You need to explain more...

Mother board and cpu from an old pc boot from dongle and USB mobile broadband dongle in a box job done. Don't muck about with raspberry p's they take to much time and you can't remotely monitor it. At least on a Windows machine you load up vlc or teamviewer. I buy them parts for penny's from old machines that are being scrapped for parts. You can get a motherboard and CPU for a tenner on ebay. 5 12 ram for 3quid old psu. Most expensive part of it is the box!

You'd need more than 512mb of RAM to run that lot without problems.

DannyRWD wrote:Don't muck about with raspberry p's they take to much time and you can't remotely monitor it.

You can remotely monitor a Raspberry Pi.

Yep, but you don't need to use those sorts of programs. You can do practically anything you would want to do over SSH, and using the -X or -Y switches you can even run X programs if necessary.

Yeah, everything is handled nicely by SSH plus with boards like the Pi there are usually some general purpose I/O pins that can be used to control a relay or monitor a sensor or whatever.

I know you can interface to a PC but it's a lot simpler with a single board computer.