How long does it take for your MiSTer to be operational?

[held]

I've been changing my setup and I notice my bluetooth takes longer to be ready.
Now this could be OCD-ish but I remember it being faster before.

So whats a bad/normal/good boot time ?

[_javi_]

My mister is always ready by the time the CRT TV is turned on. (10 secs?)

[Bas]

It boots faster than I can sit down.

[held]

After some experimentation:
* when I remove the WIFI-dongle its faster
* when I plug my BT-dongle in in USB5 instead of USB1 its significantly faster (5+ secs)

Can someone shed a light on this ?

[Mr. Encyclopedia]

I have a USB drive in it that can take a few seconds to be ready and it usually takes 15-20 seconds for networking to connect, but from power on to menu is only a couple seconds. It's fast enough that when I want to change games I just hit the reset button, the same as I would have on an old console.

[MostroW]

the turn on time to the mister menu for me is near instant, i'm quite amazed on how fast that thing actually boots to the core menu.

[Larkhainan]

It boots faster than I can sit down.

Yeah I have mine on an independent power bar and by the time I've flopped back down it's good to go

[daveo]

From switching on at the power my times are:

0 seconds to see static
6 seconds until I see the mister menu
15 seconds until wifi becomes active
22 seconds until Bluetooth becomes active

[held]

From switching on at the power my times are:

0 seconds to see static
6 seconds until I see the mister menu
15 seconds until wifi becomes active
22 seconds until Bluetooth becomes active

Excellent post, I recorded mine to see how it holds up

This was when I noticed it being slow:

• 00 seconds to see static
• 06 seconds until I see the mister menu
• 31 seconds until Bluetooth becomes active
• 120+ seconds until wifi becomes active

After moving the dongles around

• 00 seconds to see static
• 06 seconds until I see the mister menu
• 15 seconds until wifi becomes active
• 19 seconds until Bluetooth becomes active

This is without the WIFI-dongle (consistent):

• 00 seconds to see static
• 06 seconds until I see the mister menu
• 10 seconds until Bluetooth becomes active

This is so much better when you use Bluetooth controllers

[_paul_]

For me it is, after power-on:

1 second before static
8 seconds before MiSTer menu

No wifi or BT installed, fitted with an analogue IO board, 128GB memory and booting from an SD card.

[held]

Nice paul try the latest update, you could shave off another second

It seems to also differ based on what version of MiSTer/Linux you are running.
But I updated yesterday and its even faster now:

This is without the WIFI-dongle (consistent):
00 seconds to see static
07 seconds until I see the mister menu with blueooth ready

Wow, I love this project

[Stupid Dufus]

Mine takes 23 seconds from power on to connect to my CIFS shares via ethernet.

[Stinky]

I never turn mine off.

[hainer92]

I never turn mine off.

That's one way to tackle the problem haha!

[Akuma]

You could rename /etc/init.d/S45bluetooth to /etc/init.d/S35bluetooth.
This way bleutooth starts before networking/wifi and you don't have to wait for it.

They seem to finish around 12s here, but I didnt clock it.