Re: [slim] New life into an old smart radio
lemmy999 wrote: > How long will that battery power your tplink bridge? The 'Tp-link specifications' (https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/wifi-router/tl-wr802n/#specifications) say the router uses 5V 1 Amp, and that was a 8 amp-hour battery pack, so in theory 8 hours. I never ran it more than 2-4 hours. Paul P Nelson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58158 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114280 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New life into an old smart radio
Same here. Neighbor got an Orbi and my radios started having wifi issues. Radio 1: Tried wlanpoke. It works ok, but when it resets the wifi connection I sometimes get a pause in the music and have to restart it. Also, the wlanpoke script seems to crash from time to time. I have it sitting here on but not playing anything and I might see the red wifi for days, then suddenly it will connect again and have good wifi for a few days. when playing music it only plays for about 8 hours before it will lose the wifi. Without wlanpoke it was usually 5-30 minutes. Radio 2: I used a vonets vap11g-300 and it seemed to have one or two hiccups on the first day, but since then it has been going for 3-4 months without a single problem. I run it off of the Radio power supply and have not had a problem. Radio 3: I was going to keep messing with wlanpoke in hopes of keeping this one portable, but I have decided to just take the vonets approach on this one. I might still put wlanpoke on it, that way if I want to run it portable, I might get 8 hours before it has issues instead of 5-30 minutes. It isn't like the battery would work that long anyway! Boom: The Boom is older than the Radios and is the closest to the house with the Orbi, yet it doesn't have any issues. lemmy999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9284 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114280 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New life into an old smart radio
I passed the power supply to the Vonets, then the Radio, as someone else here described, so there is no way to run the Vonets from the Radio battery pack, even if it could supply it. I saw the idea about using a power block, which I have a half-dozen or so as party favors and from gift bags. I can pull out both plugs (power and ethernet) and go portable under WiFi for a while, but if I try to use it in a remote location for more than a couple of hours, I will take the power supply and the Vonets with me and find a wall outlet. I'm on a corner lot and I think the one neighbor, on the side where my workroom is located, is also the house with the interfering WiFi that affects the Radio. The consensus here seems to be that WiFi6 is the conflict. I don't have it, but my one neighbor might, since my WiFi sniffer shows them all over the various channels and ranges. Since I plugged in the Vonets, I've had no dropout on the Radio. The Boom that lives against the same outside wall never drops off WiFi. Bassman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36373 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114280 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New life into an old smart radio
elsevers wrote: > Hello, > > I am struggling with the same WiFi issue and am intrigued by your use of > a Vonets AP11G-300 to solve the issue. I am wondering if you can offer > any practical tips for how you set this up. Are you able to draw power > from the battery so that your radio remains mobile? Did you somehow > adhere/glue/mount the ethernet bridge to the radio? (I am looking to > come up with a solution that allows my radio to remain portable and > fully operational without a wall power connection). > > Thanks. See this post for my trick. It uses a tplink portable Ethernet bridge and battery pack. https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?97791-Squeezebox-Radio-keeps-losing-wireless-connection-and-won-t-reconnect-any-ideas=1037602=#post1037602 I had problems setting up the Vonets as the instructions are sparse. Others have success so it is a user problem on my part. P Nelson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58158 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114280 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New life into an old smart radio
Hello, I am struggling with the same WiFi issue and am intrigued by your use of a Vonets AP11G-300 to solve the issue. I am wondering if you can offer any practical tips for how you set this up. Are you able to draw power from the battery so that your radio remains mobile? Did you somehow adhere/glue/mount the ethernet bridge to the radio? (I am looking to come up with a solution that allows my radio to remain portable and fully operational without a wall power connection). Thanks. elsevers's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=72426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114280 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New life into an old smart radio
On occasion, on the built-in WiFi, I would get "waiting to connect' when trying to sync the Radio to a Boom. There is a bit of a disco light show at night from the Vonets. I read where people pull it apart to tape over the LEDs. I'm sort of burying it, behind the Radio, in all the cabling, so it's more of a glow and not a glare. 21 days. No reboots. Everything connects and syncs just fine. Bassman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36373 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114280 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New life into an old smart radio
As of today, this new setup has needed 0 reboots. I figured I would have had 7, by this time. Bassman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36373 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114280 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New life into an old smart radio
My SB Radio (an upgraded UE) has gone from having the red WiFi icon three or so times a week, to every morning and every evening for the most recent couple of weeks. The Network reconnect spinner and reconnect options show it is still connected to my network, but fails at the sb.com step. I have had the same router for years, now. I do not use LMS. Only a full reboot seems to be resetting it. I just took delivery of the VONETS VAP11G-300. I got it set up and it's running at the SB Radio. After the setup through my laptop, I could not log back into it after its reboot. It has a hard reset button, so as long as it is working now, I might never need to admin it, again, anyway. I'll let you know if it fails with the new setup. This is a $25 fix, so wish me luck. Bassman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36373 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114280 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New life into an old smart radio
emjayteef wrote: > > > I have a UE Smart Radio and as with many of you, its slowly worked less > and less over the years, then I found iPeng, but now it has problems > staying connected to the internet and needs a full system reset to give > me a few mins listening time. > > If your Radio is connected by Wifi, but gets the red symbol and loses connection, but is restored by turning it off and back on again so it reboots, then the problem might be caused by interference with your Wifi, or a neighbors Wifi. See the threads in the Radio forum. It appears the new mesh networks is incompatible with the Radio's Wifi. Unfortunately, the Squeezebox Community Firmware will not fix the problem. However, others are working on a possible fix. I suffer from the interference problem on some of my Radios. For me, the problem is location specific as one location a Radio will not have the problem, but another Radio which as 100% signal strength to my router has the problem. A test to determine if the Wifi is the problem is to connect the Radio with an ethernet cable to your router. If it works without a problem, that is a sign it is the wifi interference problem. The only solution for now is to use a Wifi to Ethernet bridge which plugs into the ethernet connection on the radio. I am using a TP-Link N300 travel router in client mode; it is easy to set up. Others have used a Vonets VAP11G-300, but I had difficultly setting it up. The Vonets is rated up to 15 volts, but Radio's power supply is 18 volts; however many people use the Vonets without a problem. Most of the people on this forum with Radios use the Squeezebox (SB) Radio, as opposed to the UE Smart Radio. The difference is a SB Radio can use either MySequeezebox.com or Logitech Media Server (LMS). If you run LMS you can play music on your computer. There is more community development of LMS and options with a SB Radio than the UE Smart Radio. It is possible to convert the UE Radio to an SB Radio. Good luck! Paul P Nelson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58158 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114280 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New life into an old smart radio
You might be in luck - but it depends on why your device is failing. If it is a hardware problem then ... new firmware (etc) probably will not fix it. However, if you convert it from a UE Smart Radio to a Squeezebox Radio (link to come) AND you run Logitech Media Server (LMS) on your home network then you have the possibility of playing many more stations, services and even local media. Also - there is a community built firmware for the Radio. Most of it is the same as Logitech released but there are some bug fixes and the possibility of more in the future. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute, scala, jazzfm etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114280 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] New life into an old smart radio
Hey there fellow squeezeboxers. I had a feeling a forum like this must exist, and I finally found it! I have a UE Smart Radio and as with many of you, its slowly worked less and less over the years, then I found iPeng, but now it has problems staying connected to the internet and needs a full system reset to give me a few mins listening time. I'm ready to call it quits, but then thought there might be someone who, like with iPeng, has some kind of custom firmware update I could install on my device to make it work like new again. I have tried to find such a hold grail on this forum but was quickly overwhelmed. Does it exist? So i'm admittedly a newbie, and not so well informed but can anyone direct me to a place/guide where i can read some instructions of how I can return life to my device (if this exists). Thanks Matt:o emjayteef's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71596 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114280 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
