I have 3 squeezebox classics (and love them). I recently acquired a
fourth, used, as a backup when the inevitable happens. But the recent
acquisition is having connection problems the other three don't have.
And it has the problem whether it's used wired or wirelessly. Basically,
it connects up just fine, and I can even get it to play music, briefly.
But within seconds, whether it's idle or playing, it flashes up "Cannot
connect to server, left to go back, right to try again." Then it
immediately it reconnects on its own. (It happens so fast that I had to
video record it and go frame by frame to see the error message.)
All my SB's are on the same network and use the same server (which is
not LSS, but my own software - very stable, used it for years now). All
are loaded with firmware 81, which is what my server code likes and
understands. Because it's my own server I can debug and watch what's
happening - the errant SB is periodically connecting to the server when
it already has a connection, and sending HELO on the new connection, for
no apparent reason. My server recognizes that it already has a
connection from this MAC address, dumps the old connection and accepts
the new one, but that interrupts whatever is in progress, making the SB
useless.
Ok, obvious conclusion is I got a defective one. But the seller swears
that they were tested before shipping. And I find it suspicious that the
problem manifests both in wired and wireless mode; this makes me think
it's not a simple hardware issue. Another point of interest: the MAC
address is within 3 of one of my other ones, and is inside the range of
the others. Assuming MAC addresses increase with manufacturing date, I
don't think there can be radically different hardware in there.
The seller will exchange it, but I'm wondering if there's some magic
setting I don't know about lurking in these SBs. One clue, when it
arrived it has a MUCH higher software firmware revision number (200
something), and I'm wondering if there's something in there that 1)
didn't get replaced when I loaded in firmware 81 and 2) is expecting
some magic message that my server doesn't provide. Is there any known
trick to this?
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