USB Current: yes, that’s the setting I meant.. but I guess I was wrong, as I wrongly understood you had issues with a USB harddrive, but a Stick shouldn’t be an issue at all.
But honestly, as you might begin to realize, Max2Play isn’t supported/maintained anymore very well.
If you only need Music rather than HDMI/AV Output and stuff like KODI from your Raspi, I strongly recommend you go for PiCorePlayer instead. They have a lively community and very good support, and a working update maitenance. https://www.picoreplayer.org/
It also runs on a smaller OS version designed vor small hardware, so that will require less power as well. And switch off HDMI should also save some energy.
would you be able to give an update about upgrading to OpenHAB 3, please?
I have just package-installed default-jdk on max2play (debian Buster – JDK 11) to complete the preconditions.. but before I go ahead, it would be great to find out about m2p planning.
What are your thoughts or concerns about us trying to upgrade manually (I know I will loose OpenHAB 2 settings).