Wow, some interesting test results this morning: After few days of working nicely, this morning I noticed that nothing was playing. My automation system, usually automatically turns on the radio each morning by issuing an URL to LMS server that tells my 'HomeGroup' virtual Chromecast to play a specific radio station. Such a command includes the IP of LMS server, which favorite to play and the physical MAC address of whichever squeezebox or CCA device you want to play it on.
So I decided to do a little test by manually issueing the URL commands from Firefox address bar and looking on Ipeng on my Iphone at the same time to see what happens to which players. Before describing what I saw, a short recap of my situation: 1 HomeGroup virtual ChromeCast (I will further refer to this as HG), made up of the following two physical ChromeCasts: 2 Living Room (Woon Kamer in Dutch) physical chromecast (I will further refer to this as WR) 3 Kitchen Room physical chromecast (I will further refer to this as KR) 4 Perry's Room physical Squeezebox Classic (I will refer to as PR) 5 Corry's Room physical Squeezebox Classic (I will refer to this further as CR) To start off and without having issued any command, I noticed in Ipeng that my KR had disappeared from listing, WR was shown, but not active, PR was activated and playing what normally should have been played by the HG, which was rather unexpected! CR was listed not active (as expected). I then issued a command to HG to play another favorite number and I noticed that the PR switched station. So, although I used the MAC address of the HG in the URL, the PR squeezebox responded, even though this has a different MAC address! I next disconnected the PR squeezebox from power and issued an URL to HG again. Now I saw in Ipeng that the CR squeezebox responded instead! Still, and as in before tries, the WR did nothing all this time. I then issued an URL to address the WR directly; nothing happened. I looked up the MAC address of WR inside the LMS server to double check my archived information and, sure enough, it was different from what it used to be!! So it appears the MAC address of this CCA has changed over time (in fact, in my archive it looks like there might have been two different MAC addresses for this same CCA before). This still does not explain why, if the MAC address in the URL is not available, a different physical Squeezebox Classic is chosen to play the requested music. Anyway, hope this helps towards solving the puzzle. Ps, Philippe, did you receive my emailed log files? Regards, Perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ piert's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65909 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104614 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
