Yes, it took the best part of a day around walking dogs, cooking dinner, etc. As I said, I ordered the Mac mini on Sunday, it arrived Tuesday and as anyone who has bought a Mac (or any computer come to that) the time you’ve connected it set everything up and started downloading the updates it’s surprising where the time goes.You spent most of the day setting up the Mini? I've set up volumio several times and it takes around 10 mins to download the image then 'burn' it to a USB thumb drive followed by booting the Mini from it. Once up you use any web browser to access volumio (the iPad is fine) to both configure and use it. Remember the default sets up the Mini as a WiFi hotspot so the distance between iPad and music player is small i.e. good connection.
For more than 7 years now I have used Amarra as my music player that is controlled via VNC on an iPad (initially an iPod Touch) over WiFi. Works fine. Unfortunately I can't use volumio with my DAC (I'd like to) as it doesn't support Firewire. Perhaps one day I'll try and hack it.
Cheers,
DV
I’m now waiting for a vga to hdmi adaptor then off we go again tomorrow