Have just signed up to the forum and this is my first 'post', though I've little substantial to add - just "me too", and some (probably rhetorical) questions.
My Squeezebox Radio (SBR seems to be the abbreviation used) started playing up on Friday (4/Nov) when the button presets did nothing and its wireless icon was red - which I took to mean it was no longer on my wireless network and/or it had lost its internet connection. My router showed me it was connected ok but, regardless, I did the usual on-offing, after a bout of which the red went white and the presets got me the correct station. But all was not right as the 'artwork' normally shown for each station/programme failed to appear and in its place was the Now Playing screen showing a Playlist of "Nothing"; also the station played for around 15mins before cutting out (though touching its preset button restored it instantly). Similar on Saturday. But today, Sunday 6th Nov, I can get nothing out of it. So I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out what was going on, the upshot of which seems to be that the box isn't able to connect to mysqueezebox.com (abbreviated to mysb.com in these parts I think). I can log in to mysqueezebox.com via my PC browser (http/website/port 80) where I see that my Radio has status 'Not Connected' and, needless to say, Remote Control doesn't work - "504 Gateway Timeout". My favourites though are all there as normal. Oh, I should just mention that I've no Squeezebox Server involved so the radio connects directly to mysb.com. I deduce that I'm suffering the effects of the EU outage that mherger reports. (BTW, who is mherger? I presume it's the same mherger<at>logitech.com that my forum registration email referred me to? Is he/she then a 'formal' Logitech support person? Or perhaps they are an 'informal' one - hence the babelfish bit!? If informal then that seems to suggest that Logitech aren't much bothered with their SBX customers any more - see later for a little more on this...). So do I just wait and trust that Logitech sort this out in their own sweet time? Here's the rhetorical bit... Why is there no communication from Logitech on any of this? And I've seen nothing on this forum, save from Ary initiating this thread. Is it unreasonable to expect my login to msb.com to show some notification of a problem? Have Logitech essentially given up on Squeezebox users/customers - and their UE Smart Radio customers too? I guess so as it seems they don't market any of these any longer (no mention on logitech.com that I can see). And since there have been so few me toos since Ary raised the problem I guess this means there are few SBR (or indeed SBX device) users out there now. What a shame, it is (was...?) such a clever box with a nice sound. I had a few years out of it but perhaps it's now time to look for a new device. Of course it won't be a Logitech one. I'm not quite sure if I'm disposed to steer clear of -any- Logitech product, I'll have to see. Oh, and a final last question/comment that I've seen raised elsewhere in the forum but not seen answered.... is there a reason (other than that's just the way it works) why the SBR makes its connection to a broadcast stream via mysb.com rather than directly, because the way it works of course makes a nice single point of failure... And since it's so seemingly hackable by those in the know (triode seems to be da man there) can it be made to go to the broadcast streams -directly-...? Sorry, didn't want my first post to turn in to a kind of rant but it slightly turned out that way! Nic P ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NicP's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66229 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106386 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
