IMHO the first thing that really needs to be fixed is the Radio loosing connection to MYSB.COM. Indeed after more than 6 hours in standby (soft off), there's a 90% chance that my Radio looses the connection to MYSB.COM and doesn't even try to reconnect when I press e.g. the alarm button. And let me emphasize that neither my internet connection nor the WLAN setup is the problem. Indeed even the stream is played at the correct time, so this can't be a connection problem on my side.
The main problem with this is that I need to get to the menu and select the Last.fm entry since this seems to be more or less the only way to re-establish the broken connection. There are several facts that hint that the Radio is not even aware that the connection was lost and thus gets into an undefined state as the software developers obviously forgot to add a sensible fault handling for this case. The fact that the Radio just beeps in this state when I press e.g. the alarm button instead of trying to reconnect is a major design flaw. Indeed there should be also a timer event that checks the connection every e.g. 10 minutes. Else chances are that the Radio doesn't receive a new alarm setup via MYSB which is really a big problem since you have to rely on a programmed alarm. As a side note: it's not only that the alarm menu is not shown in this faulty state. Also the whole system behavior is erratic. E.g. while the programmed station is played, it usually stops after a few minutes instead of playing for the full alarm time. Which is also a very big problem as chances are that I miss the alarm or fall asleep again when it plays only for a few minutes. Sometimes playing continues in this case when I press the knob, sometimes it doesn't. In the end I really need to navigate to the main menu and select Last.fm before the alarm menu pops up. And all of this in darkness and without glasses. Obviously this doesn't happen for all customers so maybe it's related to dynamic IP or maybe it's a problem in my local MYSB node (the system info hints that the Radio indeed connects to a nearby datacenter and not to the American server). Yet it's really a shame that such a basic design fault survived the beta phase and was not even fixed with 7.4.1. I understand that some features like a better NP screen and customization features need some time. Yet the most basic functions for a bedside radio MUST work soon. And nothing is more important than a working and reliable alarm feature. So I REALLY, REALLY hope that I don't have to wait for December or January when 7.5 is released, before at least the alarm works reliably. This could be such a great product with a mature software and a better display layout. Currently it's pretty much frustrating. -- 0xdeadbeef ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 0xdeadbeef's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2287 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70526 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
