gharris999;627726 Wrote: > This is a well known Touch/SqueezePlay problem and doesn't have anything > to do with SrvrPowerCtrl. And it is precisely the problem that > SrvrPowerCtrl's "Suspend to mysb.com" feature is designed to address. > I've been seeing this problem ever since the 7.4x versions of > SqueezePlay on the Touch and the Squeezebox Controller were released > back in the Fall of 2009. Logitech apparently feels that there is > nothing to be gained by encouraging users to sleep or suspend their > servers when they aren't in use. Perhaps they feel that this will just > increase support requests. But for whatever reason, Logitech's > development effort to make the SqueezeBox line work and play well with > aggressive energy saving servers pretty much dried up with the > transition from SqueezeCenter to SqueezeboxServer. > > My suggestion is that you do use the 'Suspend to www.mysqueezebox.com' > feature in SrvrPowerCtrl rather than just 'suspend'. That will keep > the Touch happy and keep it from prematurely WOLing your server. You > can also adjust SrvrPowerCtrl's settings to automatically fetch the > touch back from mysb.com on server wakeup. > > If you'd rather not connect the Touch to mysb.com because of "firmware > upgrade shuffle" annoyances, then I'd suggest that you buy a cheap SD > card and install it on your Touch. That will have the effect of > enabling "tinysc", the embedded Squeezeboxserver on the Touch. You can > then configure SrvrPowerCtrl to send the Touch to "itself". Again, the > Touch will remain happy and won't WOL your sleeping server. And again, > SrvrPowerCtrl on your SBS server can be configured to automatically > fetch the Touch back from "itself" on wake up. > > The only downside to this whole arrangement is that it makes it more > difficult to wake the SBS server from the Touch when you want to. If > that is a problem, then what I would unhesitatingly recommend is this: > go out and purchase the cheapest Apple iPod Touch from eBay or wherever > that you can find. Then purchase iPeng. iPeng can be relied on to WOL > your server whenever you pull it up on the iPod Touch. When the server > wakes up, then SrvrPowerCtrl can be relied on to fetch the Touch back > from mysb.com or from tinysc.
Thank you for your detailed reply. I was pretty certain that it wasn't a SrvrPowerCtrl problem as I could reproduce it with a manual hibernate without using SrvrPowerCtrl. I posted in this thread because I thought you (or others) may have known about the issue. I did post in the Touch Forum a few day ago (before I upgraded SrvrPowerCtrl) but got no replies. I prepared myself for a testing session today and began by shutting down the server and then when the "Problem Connecting" message came up I tried the option of reconnecting and trying an alternate library both of which obviously failed as the server was shutdown. I then restarted the server and hibernated and ....... no message, no magic packet sent and no restart. I've tried various tests since and haven't ever got the message. I can only assume that trying to connect after getting the message and failing somehow cleared a status flag in the Touch. I will persist with my set-up as is, as it is how I want it to be but if it proves unreliable and the message returns I will take up one of your suggestions. It would be good to know what conditions cause the message to be issued so that I could prevent it happening, rather than mess about until it stops. I like your idea of a dummy local library for the Touch but as you say this will create problems getting the touch to send a magic packet to my original server. I did investigate what it would cost to get a cheap iPod Touch but in the UK even second hand early generation iPod Touches seem to me to be expensive. Thanks again for your help and if you have any idea what conditions might cause the Touch to issue the Problem Connecting message I'd be interested to know. -- coyrls ------------------------------------------------------------------------ coyrls's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44253 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
