Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Upgrade SB Radio to UE Radio

2012-10-06 Thread onlyconnect
BryanLyle wrote: So, once you've updated the firmware, how do you add a music service to the home screen of the squeezebox? I can use the different services if I use my iPhone as the controller, but I can't figure out a way to add the services to my home screen. Clicking the Add Music

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Upgrade SB Radio to UE Radio

2012-10-06 Thread onlyconnect
steinbch wrote: Has anyone noticed that alarms don't have a snooze option anymore with the UE firmware? I'm not sure what may be happening, but my alarms no longer show an alarm menu when the alarm goes off...at alarm time the radio will just turn on and play whatever sound I've chosen. When

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Attempting to get Logitech's attention! LMA app has not worked for 6 months!!

2012-10-06 Thread onlyconnect
hstevenson wrote: However, it is my understanding that UE Radio will not work with a local non-Internet connected music server. Clearly, I can't go the upgrade route. It does work with a local music server. However, the UE radio gets unhappy when the internet connection is down. I'm not sure

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Attempting to get Logitech's attention! LMA app has not worked for 6 months!!

2012-10-06 Thread onlyconnect
toby10 wrote: By design. UE Radio is configured to only connect to UE online. It just seems odd that it sees the local server, lets you pick a track, but then won't play it. Tim onlyconnect's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Attempting to get Logitech's attention! LMA app has not worked for 6 months!!

2012-10-06 Thread onlyconnect
bluegaspode wrote: The playlist is handled in the cloud. So without Internet you can browse your library but not play it. Ah, OK. In which case it is mainly the UI which could be better, eg a message Cannot play while offline or some such. Though the ability to manage a local playlist would

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Small Package, Big Sound .. and awful alarm clock

2012-09-28 Thread onlyconnect
aubuti wrote: Hmm, these latest posts raise a question about the UE Smart Radio that I don't think I've seen discussed so far. There is fairly widespread agreement that the SB Radio's design to require a server connection to trigger the alarm was a bad idea. Even the old SB Radio has enough

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Upgrade SB Radio to UE Radio

2012-09-27 Thread onlyconnect
bluegaspode wrote: Tada - translated: in the Settings menu press Home+Fwd and you will get a new Developers menu ... where we can find the menu for remote login again :D. Many thanks, works great! Wish I'd known this when I was troubleshooting non-playing. Tim

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Small Package, Big Sound .. and awful alarm clock

2012-09-27 Thread onlyconnect
Mnyb wrote: It works it reboots itself before the alarm time is up , given that there is any power left in the battery . But not if you turned it *really* of by holding down the powerbutton for a while . OK, so there are 4 power states? 1. Really off 2. Deep standby (able to restart for

Re: Review: Logitech UE Smart Radio � the last Squeezebox?

2012-09-27 Thread onlyconnect
didjean wrote: This is NOT a squeezebox. It's a fakebox. Now that I have tried SSH into the Smart Radio and got the message about only joking ... enjoy I can see that at least some of the spirit of Squeezebox lives on here. Tim

Re: Review: Logitech UE Smart Radio � the last Squeezebox?

2012-09-26 Thread onlyconnect
m1abrams wrote: You say in your review that the squeezebox radio is physically smaller than the UE radio. Sure about that? No, it says physically similar. I said it was smaller than the Boom. Tim onlyconnect's

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Small Package, Big Sound .. and awful alarm clock

2012-09-26 Thread onlyconnect
Am I right in thinking that the alarm does not work on battery power, since the unit automatically turns off? Tim onlyconnect's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19154 View this thread:

Re: Review: Logitech UE Smart Radio � the last Squeezebox?

2012-09-26 Thread onlyconnect
aubuti wrote: Other than the UE logo on the front, how is the UE Smart Radio different from the SB Radio? In other words, is there anything besides the branding that makes them not physically identical? Unknown. The presence of the undocumented infrared receptor makes me wonder if, for

[SlimDevices: Radio] Silent UE radio

2012-09-25 Thread onlyconnect
Hi I am in touch with support but wondered if you have any ideas? New UE radio does everything except play! Have tried with Live Radio, local server, and Last.fm Taking local server for example, I can select a track and see the album artwork, but no music is played. Amplifier/speaker works

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Silent UE radio

2012-09-25 Thread onlyconnect
Support is arranging a pick-up so I guess it is faulty. Tim onlyconnect's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19154 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96544

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Silent UE radio

2012-09-25 Thread onlyconnect
It has started working! I didn't change anything. Turned it on, to verify the fault one last time before packing. Local music works, live radio works. Strange indeed. Tim onlyconnect's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Silent UE radio

2012-09-25 Thread onlyconnect
I am not sure about this for a couple of reasons. How long was mysqueezebox down for? Server info shows and has always shown uesmartradio.com The support engineer was able to play his UE radio successfully even when mine was not working. Tim

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Silent UE radio

2012-09-25 Thread onlyconnect
garym wrote: I'm not sure all mysqueezebox.com locations were down at the same time. Possible that he was on one server (that was up) and you were on one that was down. Anyhow, these things are computers so sometimes there are hiccups and a reboot or time passing can cure all sorts of

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Silent UE radio

2012-09-25 Thread onlyconnect
You can get date-related bugs. For example, I have seen bugs that do not show for the first 12 days of the month. This is because mm/dd/yy and dd/mm/yy are both valid until the 13th day :-) Tim onlyconnect's Profile:

Re: Review: Logitech UE Smart Radio � the last Squeezebox?

2012-09-25 Thread onlyconnect
aubuti wrote: Thanks for that. Good review, but I think the title is wrong. It seems to me that the Touch is/was the last Squeezebox. This is the first Smart Radio. Doesn't have the same ring to it I see what you mean, but my point is that this is still the Squeezebox system,

Re: Review: Logitech UE Smart Radio � the last Squeezebox?

2012-09-25 Thread onlyconnect
kidstypike wrote: According to Ben Klauss, the UE Smart Radio is NOT a Squeezebox. Full post here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?96188-New-Squeezebox-Radio/page7 True, but he also says it is a rebranding project and little more ... You can argue it either way but it has the

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] New Squeezebox Radio

2012-09-24 Thread onlyconnect
mbg wrote: Sure, but a bit less crazy because these are NiMH so would last longer before needing replacement. The specs for the UE radio don't list a battery under what's in the box, and the CNET review says it's built-in But the setup guide shows battery removal instructions, so I