Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] new radio, mixed experience so far
The screen failure to update is a chronic and the subject of this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73290 This problem has not been resolved in nearly a year. -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82524 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Display doesn't change when playing different links
The problem is chronic and describe here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73290 A lot of us are waiting for new firmware to solve annoying problem! -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82463 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Bug reports for 7.5.1.r9009
Running 7.5.1.r9009 and mysb. While I am experiencing the freeze of now playing information, sometimes many times in an evening, I have never lost my presents. Once the freeze occurs I have always had to reboot, however now I have discovered that instead I can simply do: Settings>Advanced>Networking>Choose Network>Connect to wirelsss network> and then select the network shown as available. It then disconnects and reconnects after which point the screen is unfrozen. Of course this is rather awkward, but it may serve as a clue to the source of the problem. -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81357 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Now Playing artwork is not updating! HELP
Since I only use mySB I have no way to test the beta firmware. Perhaps I will have to bring up SBServer.but for now I am plagued by this problem, it can happen several times every evening. As a test I thought it would be worth trying a different wifi source and so brought up a second one. I assigned channel 1 to one and channel 11 to the second. One is a wrt54g running recent Linksys firmware, the second is a wrt54gl running dd-wrt. Unfortunately it freezes just as regularly on each of them. But I did discover something, rather than having to reboot to unfreeze the now playing information, I can instead switch wifi networks and that unfreezes it. Unfortunately it is short lived, perhaps a few hours and it will freeze again. So it is no solution but perhaps it is a clue. Incidentally the freeze problem is unrelated to changing from one station to another. If you listen to a single station long enough it will always eventually freeze. Very annoying! -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Internet Traffic After SB OFF
I think what you are suggesting is that pause is working as expected, however when taping the power button the connection should be terminated. My prior response was to give an explanation for what you were observing. Continuing to buffer when pausing but immediately terminating the connection when powering down seems sensible to me. I was surprised to discover it didn't work that way. You do have to maintain the connection to mySB (or SBS) for control, but that is modest compared to the streaming traffic. -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82144 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Internet Traffic After SB OFF
I am running dd-wrt firmware in a wrt54gl which has a page displaying graphically the wireless traffic. From this it is clear that the SBRadio continues buffering the station you were listening to after tapping the power button to turn off. The same occurs when you pause the radio. The buffer is apparently quite large as this goes on for a long time. When you resume the audio picks up exactly where you paused or 'powered down'. Eventually however the buffer apparently fills and the tcp connection is closed. The buffer is then dumped...as it should be. The approach the designers have taken seems sensible to me. -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82144 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm is awful.
I have reported the problems directly to Logitech by their established procedure. It resulted in their replacing the SBRadio for me, however it made no difference and I so informed them. They have told me that they are aware of the problems and are working on updated firmware. In my report I concentrated on the display freezing as to me that is the most annoying problem for me. Not much more I can do but wait. -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82092 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Now Playing artwork is not updating! HELP
Ron Stordahl;574272 Wrote: > Perhaps it is too early to say, since the problem for me was never > reproducible at will, it was a random thing. But since the > MySqueezeBox.com shutdown and restart on August 30, I have not > experience another screen freeze with firmware 7.5.1 r9009 on my > SBRadio. > > That is 5 days without a screen freeze...knock on wood! It was too good to be true! This morning I started it, by pushing the power button, then play. The screen was frozen, although I could select new stations, but with no way to tell what they were with the screen stuck on the one which was playing when I powered down last evening. Had to reboot. Disappointed! -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Now Playing artwork is not updating! HELP
Perhaps it is too early to say, since the problem for me was never reproducible at will, it was a random thing. But since the MySqueezeBox.com shutdown and restart on August 30, I have not experience another screen freeze with firmware 7.5.1 r9009 on my SBRadio. That is 5 days without a screen freeze...knock on wood! -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Now Playing artwork is not updating! HELP
BLatSD;571258 Wrote: > ...and make the display text freeze (known bug). > > > > True. But at least, with a very minor inconvenience, you know how to > prevent or workaround it (press power first). I have followed that approach successfully..to awaken press power first then play. But today the screen stayed stuck on last nights station inspite of following the 'workaround'. I can select and play new stations, but the artwork is stuck at last night. Only a reboot was able to get the screen alive again. -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Now Playing artwork is not updating! HELP
If you tap the power button to shut down, and later tap it again to power up the radio does turn on but doesn't play until you either tap play or reselect a station. Simply tapping play is a one step way to wake it up and get playing. It should work, and not cause the display to lock up. -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Now Playing artwork is not updating! HELP
All of my stations are via RadioTime and I connect to mysqueeebox.com. I have not taken the time to even look into SqueeezeBox Server, although I do see the value of SBS for convering and having my CD's available on line. Maybe I will have time for that in the winter...Summer is too short for all the effort that would take. Nor do I use the alarms. My application is as simple as it gets, I have 6 presets set up, plus a modest additional list of favorites. Everything is from RadioTime. The last display freeze was associated with pushing the play button after turning off the prior night. The display freeze prior to that occurred when switching stations using the presets. So that is the 'pattern'. -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Now Playing artwork is not updating! HELP
About 5 posts back in this topic I had reported that upgrading to firmware r9009 had reduced my instances of the screen freezing to just one instance in 3 days. I had intended to try BLatsD's sequence should it reoccur. Last evening I had it playing CBC Classical and had stopped it by tapping the power button, intending to resume in the AM by pushing the play button. It did resume playing but the art was that of the previous evening, although it was not completely frozen, it was scrolling the title of what it had been playing last evening. Selecting a new station(s) did connect to the new station(s) but the artwork remained 'stuck'. So I tried BLatsD's sequence. Holding down the pause key until the stop symbol (the square dot) appeared, then continuing with his sequence. His technique did NOT correct the problem. I see that TJ_ also failed to upright the boat using the BLatsD sequence. I continued and tried everything but rebooting and nothing helped. I can restore the play symbol (the right pointing triangle). In fact it will pause and resume normally. I can successfully select new stations. Everything is fine except the screen remains stuck at last evening. So I had to reboot, which itself is annoying as the radio puts out a hellish blast of noise from the headphone jack, which I can live with as rebooting should be rare anyway. I cannot say that r9009 has been any improvement in this annoying problem. If I didn't like this product so much (with the hope that it will get fixed) I would give up. -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Now Playing artwork is not updating! HELP
After upgrading to firmware 7.5.1 r9009 I have experienced the 'frozen' screen just once in the last 3 days. Prior to that it was more frequent, but I suppose it could be that I am just not repeating the exact sequence that causes it. I rebooted, but then I was unaware of the work around suggested by BLatSD. When it happens again I will try his 'trick'. I am using SBRadio hardware version 5 and mysqueezebox.com. I am hoping the next firmware update will eliminate this annoying issue. -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Bug reports for 7.5.1.r9009
Power on/off? Where is that. In mysqueezebox.com I see the 'remote control' tab. Selecting that I get a new window which allows me to pause. It works. Then I can resume playing from the same button. I don't find a power on/off control. Using SBRadio firmware 7.5.1 r9009 hardware version 5 and mysqueeebox.com. -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81357 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Previewing alarm sounds
If you use the 'Sounds and Effects' app would the alarm still play even if the connection to mysqueezebox.com was unavailable at that time? Or is such connection either to mysqueezebox or to your own squeezebox server always required? -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81306 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Previewing alarm sounds
Thanks bluegaspode! You must actually set an alarm in order to preview it. This does make sense and does enable you to preview them quickly. The procedure: Settings > Alarm Clock > Add Alarm At this point you must actually set an alarm time, which we can later cancel by 'remove alarm'. Once the alarm time is set, the screen will return to Alarm 1: 07:00 (at least this was the default choice which I accepted. Now do: Alarm 1: 07:00 > Alarm Sound > Musical Sounds > Barn Fire Now push the play button to the right of the main knob. After previewing this sound you can push the 'back' button to the left of the main knob twice to get back to the list of Musical Sounds to make another selection followed by the play key to hear it. Pushing the 'back' button three times instead returns you to the list of all available alarm sounds so you can continue previewing the possibilities. The ready made sounds, 'Musical Sounds', etc would likely be more reliable than picking a 'radio station' which might be off line just when you need it. -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81306 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
[SlimDevices: Radio] Previewing alarm sounds
Is there a way to preview the many alarm sounds offered on mysqueezebox.com? These are named: Musical Sounds -> Barn Fire Sound Effects -> Wind Chime Flourish Here must be 50+ sounds available. It would be very awkward to to have to set each up as an alarm and wait to hear each! -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81306 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Thanks Squeezebox Radio
Yes there should be more compliments about the SBR. If it were reliable I would be the first to say it was the best $150.00 I have ever spent. The screen occasionally freezes up when changing stations, using the presets, requiring a reboot. So I tried leaving it on just one station to see what would happen. The next morning it was frozen. Only a reboot could get it going again. Because of these issues I have not looked into the many extensive features. If just the most simple uses were solid I would be singing the praises of the SBR. I am hoping that a future firmware update will solve the problems. I have hardware version 5 firmware 7.5.1 r8837 with mysqueezebox.com. -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80866 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] One problem, among many
The "Settings->Player->Audio->Power On Resume" setting which Marc describes in SBS does not appear to be available in the SBR menu nor on mysqueezebox.com. However pushing the 'play' button does wake up the radio and it resumes. That is acceptable so I withdraw that criticism. I will have to experiment further with the alarm, setting it via mysqueezebox.com...but not tonight, its late. I did mention there were other problems...one very annoying one is when switching between stations, using the presets, the screen on the radio will occasionally freeze at the station I was listening to, but the music will switch to the new preset I have pushed. After this happens all the presets remain functional, but the screen is frozen. The only way out of this is to reboot. Has anyone seen this? -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80785 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] One problem, among many
With regard to the radio resuming the station playing at the time it was turned off: This seems much to me like a fault as it acts the same way when using the alarm. If the radio will not play when the alarm time is reached then what good is the alarm? To me it seems like the same problem as powering down and then up. As regards firmware updates, I have it it just short of a month with many problems, ranging from screen freeze to unexpected reboots. It surprises me that Logitech would actually sell a product with so many known faults. If I were in charge I would suspend sales/shipments until the claimed functionality actually worked. But that is just me! -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80785 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
[SlimDevices: Radio] One problem, among many
I have numerous problems with my SBR Hardware version 5 Firmware version 7.5.1 r8837, but I will describe one which is 100% repeatable, and not temporarily correctable by rebooting. I use mysqueezebox.com (I do not run Squeezebox server). If I am listing to a station, any station, and then power down the radio by pushing the power button, the radio switches to the clock display and the audio stop...this is all as it should. When I subsequently want to start the radio by pushing the power button, it appears to resume, but the connection to the radio station is apparently not retried..if it is it is unsuccessful. The only way to get the radio to resume is to manually reselect the station. This is most easily done by programming one of the six selection keys to a desired station. Upon pushing one of them the radio immediately reconnects and plays. If instead I set the timeout, say to 15 minutes, and the alarm clock to 'start' after this, say 10 minutes later, the radio shuts down at 15 minutes as it should, then at the alarm time (in this instance 10 minutes later) the radio restarts, but fails to play. It behaves, in other words, exactly as described in the preceding paragraph. There are other problems, which require rebooting to temporarily fix, but I should think the simple problem I described above, if others are experiencing it represent a firmware issue which needs to be resolved. Can others reproduce the exact problem I am describing? -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80785 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] CBC Radio One and Two problems
I can go to the same CBC Radio 2 feeds via my Windows laptop (Vista) and they play fine. It's on the same wifi router box. On my SBR when trying to play them it says: Connect timed out: Transport endpoint is not connected. At other times the error message is: Error reading headers: .. I am not using SBS, my connection is via MySqueezeBox and it appears it is getting its connection data from 'radiotime'. And it is not only the classical CBC stations, I can't find any CBC stations that work this morning. I have tried about a dozen. Last night CBC Classica (Canada) worked just fine. On the other hand WQXR-FM, ZET Chopin, Klassika Raadio Estonia etc etc work. I only point this out to make the point that the problem is selective. Since the SBS appears to get it's connection info from RadioTime, I went to the RadioTime website and found CBC Radio 2 Toronto. I was able to play the station at once, yet I could not connect to the same from the SBS. So I am stumped at this point. -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80594 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Z-2300 speakers
Actually the very loud annoying noise on reboot also occurs when using regular earphones, so it has nothing to do with 'powered'. Just plug in a headset and you can confirm it's the SBR that is doing this. I will be interested in your findings. -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80497 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Z-2300 speakers
caszw: I have a SqueezeBox Radio (SBR) with firmware 7.5.1 r8837, the latest 'final' version offered. I use the headphone jack to drive my stereo system and it sounds very good. Assuming the 'speakers' you intend to use offer a 'line level' input they should work equally well. The only issue I have with the headphone jack output is when you do a reboot of the SBR, by holding in the power button for a few seconds, the radio outputs some extremely loud irritating noise, much much louder than the music level. I would be interested to know if this also occurs with your SBR. Of course I wouldn't need to reboot it so often if it didn't have so many firmware issues! Then I wouldn't care about the ungodly loud irritating noise, as it would be so rare! -- Ron Stordahl Ron Stordahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80497 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
