What place has the best price for ENC5 (US customer)?
Check ebay
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Amazon usually is cheaper for LinkPi stuff. All the eBay shipments from China lately have relatively high shipping cost. Import costs maybe?
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Has anyone had their USBCam input just lose audio and require a reboot?
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I re-cable managed everything. Put my 6 Ospreys and 3 LinkPi's on a laptop cooler. The Ospreys are stacked 2x3 and the LinkPi's are 3 across all on the cooler and are running at 36 degrees celcius now. I know stacking the Ospreys isn't ideal but I want to get them on the cooler and with 6 space is an issue. Bottom Ospreys are running around 52-53 and top ones are 55-56.
Hopefully it was just a thermal event with the encoder. I also did a reset on that encoder to play it safe.
I had some thermal issues last summer. As you have found, separating your devices makes a difference.
Creating some air flow may help as well. If you have a spare USB port on one of your devices, perhaps you could plug in a small USB powered fan to blow across your setup.
I actually just put everything on a laptop cooling pad that I had lying around, and I have a brand new one that's even better quality coming today to replace that really old one that I just used, so I think it is a thermal issue. My encoders are running super chilly right now, which is good. I would imagine any sort of thermal throttling could cause issues with the USBCam since I'm pushing 1080p60 out of a USB 2.0 port.
The laptop cooling pad is a really good idea. 
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Same here. I bought about 2-3 cooling pads and just put everything on top of them. It can get hot as crazy here in Miami but I moved in an apartment with central AC so it doesn't affect the devices as it did in the old place
I don't think I've ever seen these cooler.
Excuse the rats nest in the back. I suck at cable management and really need shorter HDMI's. The Osprey power supplies are quite hard to manage also.
That's a lot of Osprey boxes! This makes me think about @jsfullam's use of Taco Trays. Maybe get one of these letter sorters for desks and stack Osprey boxes vertically and get better air flow from below. Double check spacing size for Osprey fit, of course.
https://www.amazon.com/TOPCJ-Upgraded-Triangle-Organizer-Anti-Scratch/dp/B0D78XD3TX/
That's a great idea. I'll actually look into that.
I ran adb dumpsys thermalservice on all of them and they're all running fairly cool. No higher than 50 degrees Celsius so I'm not sure that I even need that. But I wonder if positioning them that way would get them to run any cooler.
Switch them Osprey's to POE with 1’ HDMI cables and you’ll be looking clean!!
https://www.staples.com/tru-red-7-compartment-mesh-metal-super-file-sorter-black-tr57606-us/product_24402640
My car is in the shop today, so my wife is kind enough to go to Staples and get me one of these. 
I looked at something very similar. It was bigger than I needed for my little onn 4k boxes. I eventually abandoned my taco holders and suspended my tuners from a PVC frame.
Cool looking setup, but the Osprey boxes are like the perfect size for what I picked out at Staples. They should slot in really nicely and the nice thing is that particular holder has seven slots so I can do three, a gap, and then another three.
This is perfect, the slot in the center is great for running cables through and I also kind of shoved my 3 Elgato Cam Link 4K's in there. I'm not spending the money anytime soon, but at some point I have to get one foot HDMI cables.
I had Claude average the temperature of all six Ospreys and they're all averaging about 48 degrees Celsius now, which I think is pretty good for running 24-7. The LinkPi encoders are sitting in the 30s.
Edit: Cleaned up my cable management. Routed everything in a more sensical way and tied everything down with velcro ties. The Elgato Cam Links have USB extensions on them to prevent strain on the USB plug itself and the port on the LinkPi encoder. So I have a lot of slack on those, hence the three bunched up ones in the middle.
I like the cooling pads underneath. I should do that under my little setup. Do you mind sharing which pads you use and why you chose those specific items?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NNMB3KS?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1
These are the ones I used. I got them because they were inexpensive. They came the same day and got 4.5 stars, so I figured they would be solid.