rojikewl wrote: > At some point in the past two years, my three Squeezebox Radios suddenly > lost their ability to stay connected to Wi-Fi. To get them reconnected I > would have to reboot them, but they would always lose their connection > again in as little as five minutes. They would almost never stay > connected for more than 40 minutes at a time. I was using a common > Linksys router, and nothing in my setup had changed. The Radios > basically became glorified clocks displayed in my home. My two > Squeezebox Touch units were unaffected, but the loss of the Radios > caused me to use the Touches less as well. > > A few days ago I finally installed POMdev's wlanpoke on each Radio. This > fix has breathed new life into them--they now stay connected without the > need for frequent reboots. POMdev, I'm grateful—thank you very much. > > In preparation to install the fix, I noticed that about six months ago, > in his (?) first (and so far only) post on this forum, mankan requested > that someone write "instructions for dummies" for wlanpoke. Having > recently struggled through the user manual as a non-technical user, I > agree that such instructions are necessary, so I am taking a stab at > writing them by describing, step by step, how I installed wlanpoke on my > three Squeezebox Radios. If anyone notices any problems with my > instructions, please let us know. I'm afraid that most non-technical > users may have given up on their Radios by now, but I hope these > instructions help someone. > > Please note that these instructions are for installing the fix without > enabling the logging (extensively documented in the user manual) that it > provides for troubleshooting purposes. I chose to disable the logging in > the hope that the fix would simply work. Since it does, I don't > anticipate having to enable logging. > > Now for the instructions. I used a Windows computer on the same Wi-Fi > network as my Squeezebox Radios to do the following: > > 1. Download wlanpoke: Go to https://github.com/PomDev2/wlanpoke , click > on the green button labeled Code and then click on Download ZIP. Save > the file wlanpoke-main.zip to your computer. > > 2. Open Windows Explorer and locate the downloaded file > wlanpoke-main.zip. Right-click on the file, and select "Extract All". > This will extract the contents of the compressed file to a folder named > wlanpoke-main. > > 3. Enable the Radio's SSH server by navigating as follows: > Home | Settings | Advanced | Remote Login > and selecting Enable SSH. When you do this, make a note of the Radio's > IP address, which is displayed on the screen in the following message: > "The root password for this device is 1234 and you can connect to it on > address [IP address]" > > 4. Back on your computer, download WinSCP from the page > https://winscp.net/eng/download.php and install it. > > 5. Launch WinSCP. A login window should open (if you need to open a > login window manually, click on the "New Session" tab toward the top > left). Under Session, for the file protocol, choose SCP. For the host > name, enter the IP address you saved in step 2. Leave the port number > unchanged. For user name, enter "root". For password, enter "1234". > Click on "Login". You will see one or two warnings asking if you want to > proceed. Answer Yes. If you get an error message that says "Error > getting name of current remote directory," dismiss it by clicking OK. > > 6. The WinSCP window now displays your computer's files and folders on > the left and your Squeezebox Radio's files on the right. On the > Squeezebox Radio side, navigate to the root directory (the folder at the > very top of the hierarchy). You can do this by clicking on the root > directory button that is shown above the list of files, to the left of > the home button. Now, navigate to the folder named "etc" by > double-clicking on it. Now click on the New button, which is just below > and to the right of the root directory button. Choose "Directory", and > for "New folder name", type "wlanpoke". Once the wlanpoke folder has > been created, double-click on it to display the contents of the folder, > i.e. nothing as of yet. > > 7. In your computer files (displayed on the left-hand side of WinSCP), > navigate to the contents of the folder wlanpoke-main, created in step 2. > Select all 11 files and drag them to the opposite side of the WinSCP > window to copy them into the wlanpoke folder. (Answer yes and/or OK to > any scary-sounding confirmations.) > > 8. The purpose of this step is to change permissions for the shell > scripts to "executable". In the menu bar at the top of the WinSCP > window, click on Commands, and then click on Open Terminal. Then, for > each of the following two lines of text, copy the entire string of text, > paste it into the field labeled "Enter Command" in the console, and > click on the Execute button: > chmod 755 /etc/wlanpoke/*.sh > chmod 755 /etc/wlanpoke/rcS.local.example > > 9. Click on Close to close the terminal window. The Squeezebox Radio > side of the WinRCS window should still show the contents of the wlanpoke > folder. Right-click on the file rcS.local.example and click on Copy. > Next, navigate to the folder /etc/init.d by clicking on the root > directory button (to the left of the home button) and then double > clicking first on the etc folder and then on the init.d folder. > Right-click in the white space below the list of files and then select > Paste. A confirmation dialog box titled Duplicate will appear. Remove > the characters ".example" from the end of the target remote path so that > it now reads "/etc/init.d/rcS.local" and click OK. You should see that > the file rcS.local has appeared in the list of files on the Radio. > Right-click on the file rcS.local, select Edit, then select Edit again. > > 10. Now that you have the rcS.local file open, edit the last line > (/etc/wlanpoke/wlanpoke.sh &) by placing the characters -x followed by a > space character before the final ampersand. In other words, edit this > line so that it reads as follows (this edit is to specify that you don't > want any messages to be sent to a logging server): > /etc/wlanpoke/wlanpoke.sh -x & > > 11. Close the file editor. When asked if you want to save the file, > click on Yes. Answer Yes again if asked if you want to continue with the > connection, and click OK to dismiss any error message. > > 12. Close WinSCP, answering Yes when asked if you want to terminate the > session without saving a workspace. > > 13. Disable the Radio's SSH server by navigating as follows (the manual > doesn't say to do this, but I disabled it because I don't know if > leaving it enabled constitutes a security risk): > Home | Settings | Advanced | Remote Login > and deselecting Enable SSH. > > 14. Restart the Squeezebox Radio (I believe this is necessary to > activate the fix). Your Radio's Wi-Fi connectivity should now be back to > normal, for the most part. Repeat for each additional Squeezebox Radio > you are once again lucky enough to own.
:D I have modified both my "smartradios" and thanks to your ingenuity they are back in service - the wifi dropping issue has been driving me crazy! you are a star! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peteskye's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=72023 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114775
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