bluegaspode;541865 Wrote: > Though there are people who wouldn't/couldn't get their Radio back, > fiddled a bit with the system and now have a rock solid alarm > function. > > I can only speak of local server operation (which with the arrival of > the Touch got very easy for anyone wanting to expand anyways) but also > heard of people with MySB.com starting to have succeses. > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=541830&postcount=19 > > As you are stuck with the Radio why not just try with the help of the > forum people to pindown your problems. > Though Marc might be right with the architecture, its not as worse as > to allow 'activates at seemingly random times AFTER the intended > time'. > Never ever - so chances are your problem can be solved. > > On the other hand: Logitech is advertising the Radio pretty strongly as > an alarm clock (though not a reliable one :D) ... so if the customer > support 'admitted' it was 'beta' you have one reason more to give it > back even outside of the 30days. Don't know the laws in US, but in > Germany you can give back devices within two years when it has > malfunctions that were there from the beginning. > I also think Logitech will 'help' you getting it back when threatening > to writing Amazon reports whatever. > > Be creative. > Two directions with/without the Radio for you. Just choose.
Valid points. I, for one, am at firmware version 7.4.2 on my Radios and not budging. I never upgraded to 7.5 and don't plan on doing so. I've learned already that when one is largely satisfied with the operation of the Radio that it is counterproductive to upgrade. While in doing so you may get access to some new feature(s) touted by Logitech, you are also directly jeopardizing the functionality that you've already become satisfied with. My alarm works fine, as I always use a local Squeezebox Server (SBS), never configure an alarm from the web page (only use the Radio front panel), and I originally fixed the alarm operation myself (quite literally). Most importantly, since a relatively stable release of the alarm code was included in the firmware I'm running (7.4.2) the basic alarm functions are reliable. There are still issues, like the periodic audio pop in advance of fade-in and occasional volume weirdness (which happen due to the architectural problems I discussed previously in post #14 on the other discussion thread), but those problems aren't bad enough to make the alarms unuseable. I can, of course, still expect additional alarm problems if/when I ever upgrade the version of either Radio firmware or SBS that I'm running here. However, Logitech made relatively minimal modifications to the band-aided alarm code I provided them to originally fix the alarm problems in version 7.4.1 of their firmware. They did indeed make changes to my code (which I warned against) for the 7.4.2 release, but the relatively minimal changes represented by that released firmware version in the context of the alarm applet when contrasted with the later firmware releases is exactly why alarms are far more stable in 7.4.2. Now, as Logitech continues to modify the alarm applet code and/or SqueezeOS (alarms depend heavily on the SqueezeOS software foundation underneath the applet) and/or SBS and/or MySB.com in later software updates the alarm operation will only become more unstable. If you want stable alarms then find a version of the SqueezeBox system that works and then don't move. This includes, of course, only using SBS and not upgrading that version either. Because of the way the alarm system is architected, changing the server code (whether SBS or MySB.com) can be expected to directly impact alarm operation. Don't forget that you will never be able to standardize on a particular version of MySB.com as your server (since Logitech is providing the server and always changing the MySB.com implementation/functionality transparently), thus you shouldn't use MySB.com if you don't want to risk alarm operation changing (and likely regressing)... Marc -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34776 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78080 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
