Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Anyone else's weather app recently quit displaying data?
works for me and has been; just got the firmware update and weather re-installed and works this is the weather applet, configured entirely within the radio BTW albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100596 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Can't connect to own SBS
Just a note: I do not have 9090 open but I *do* have udp set for 3483. I kind of bet that's what the fix was ... -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91056 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] SqueezeBox Radio battery kit avalible
"a product that they may not even have in order to sell you another product instead." I feel that the radio+battery is the product they advertised but did not have. They got me to switch to just radio (with their trickery about the battery being available March 2010 - still on the Canadian website). It is the "moral equivalent" if not the legal equivalent of bait and switch. -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75056 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] SqueezeBox Radio battery kit avalible
Maybe we're just arguing semantics ... but As I see it Logitech Canada advertised this neat product: radio + battery pack. Great. I go to the store to buy it. Battery not quite ready I'm told. I don't want to go away empty handed so I buy the radio. Now Logitech Canada reveals they never did and never will sell the product, radio + battery, for which I went to their store in the first place. Why does this not meet your own definition of "bait and switch"? -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75056 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] SqueezeBox Radio battery kit avalible
The Canadian Logitech website states that the battery pack will be available March 2010. It does not state that in fact Logitech will not sell the battery in Canada *at all*. That is clearly false advertising. I think it falls under "bait and switch" as well which is to advertise a product as possessing various features that, after the purchaser is committed, turn out not to exist. That is pretty much exactly what happened in Canada. -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75056 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] SqueezeBox Radio battery kit avalible
I've tried to contact Logitech about this. I hope they got the message but the basic import of their reply was STFU and go away (not in exactly those words :) ) -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75056 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] SqueezeBox Radio battery kit avalible
"Hang in there everyone - seems help is on the way!" Not in Canada (where the battery pack is still listed as "available March 2010". :( -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75056 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] I've got a great idea for the radio......
They say never to hit a company as pathetic as logitech, but sometimes it can be hilarious. When you think of what it costs to build the battery pack, the pent up demand and logitech's outrageous price, it is passing strange they haven't found a way to sell these things. Hey, Logitech, I'm ready to shell out 50 bucks for a 15 dollar item -- please take my money! -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79673 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] I am getting totally fed up!
"Why am I not surprised?" shut you up for while though, didn't it (mission accomplished) -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78256 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] SqueezeBox Radio battery kit avalible
"I really like being able to move it around, bring it with me to the backyard campfire and take music requests from friends for Pandora, etc." Glad to hear of your success; I might give it a try since I live in Canada, where logitech refuses to offer the battery pack (and, for some reason, only made a dozen or so for the rest of the world :) ) -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75056 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Squeezebox Radio Accessory Pack
cparker;548545 Wrote: > currently winging its way across Europe I envy you. Here in Canada, no battery pack available and the logitech webpage still says "available in March 2010". What the is wrong with logitech? -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77459 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Command to switch libraries
thanks for the suggestions, which work but what I really want is for the radio to *automatically* switch libraries when the computer it is connected to turns off. I was hoping that there was some command line magic that could do this ... -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78754 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
[SlimDevices: Radio] Command to switch libraries
Hi all. Is there a command I can run on the radio to switch libraries? Sometimes my radio is left set to a library of a computer that then gets turned off. I want the radio to switch to another library automatically (say in the middle of the night). It's easy to remotely run a command on the radio, but is there a command to connect to a library? Thanks ... -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78754 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Squeezebox Radio Accessory Pack
"update the website" LOL - I'm not the web maintainer for logitech canada; Of course, I've tried to contact logitech canada about this. The official response was that they have no information about the battery pack at all. -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77459 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Squeezebox Radio Accessory Pack
May 14th eh? The Canadian webpage still says available in March Anyone from logitech listening? No ... didn't think so. -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77459 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Squeezebox Radio Accessory Pack
About Canada - there has never been even one announcement on the Canadian website that the batteries are out of stock - not one. It still says the battery pack will be available in March 2010. That *is* a kind of scam - false claims and zero concern for informing the customer about what is supposedly going on. Why are you so invested in defending the indefensible practices of Logitech Canada??? -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77459 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] batteries out of stock ...
"Now if only they would start selling to the Canadians!!" hear! hear! -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75859 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] batteries out of stock ...
I guess it is too embarrassing for logitech to try and explain what the problem is. You've got to wonder. -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75859 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
[SlimDevices: Radio] April in Canada
Here it is April up here and the Logitech Canada web page says that the battery pack will be available in "March 2010". Competence and honesty would be preferable to deceit and incompetence. -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76707 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Battery Pack...getting closer?
by selling in the UK and Europe logitech is making a lot more money than selling in the USA for 49USD (given the current exchange rates). They'd be crazy to divert any if they are selling out in Europe. -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76322 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Battery Pack...getting closer?
It would be nice to get some updates, even the expected notice that it won't be ready until next Xmas And ... what about CANADA??? -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76322 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] batteries out of stock ...
"our warehouses are running low on this item, and Logitech will be out of stock worldwide very soon" this kind of remark just ticks me off - there never was *worldwide* stock. Canada got big fat zero. Just be honest. -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75859 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Battery is shipping!
"Mind you, it does say 'out of stock'." guess they only made a couple dozen for the UK and NONE for Canada! -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75628 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Battery is shipping!
"Sorry, batteries are not available in Canada." thanks for that terse gem - you know, when I bought the radio logitech indicated there would be the battery/remote **soon** hey - it's still on the canada logitech site - says available in March is that correct? -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75628 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Battery is shipping!
what about Canada? -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75628 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Now Playing showing Flickr-Pictures of current artist/song
"So just a well hidden function that cannot be used as a screensafer" what is the point then? -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75452 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Battery Pack and Remote--Update please?
could there be a *real* screensaver that turned off the display. It would re reactivated when any button, especially a preset, is touched? -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75107 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Battery and wifi performance of Radio
no - in my notebook if the batteries are detected at below 90% capacity they start to charge; if above 90% the battery does not begin to charge So if you took your SBR to the patio for half an hour and the batteries got down to 92% they would not charge when plugged in The next time you go to the patio the battery goes down to, say, 82%. When you next plug it in, charging begins It is a simple algorithm -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68100 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Battery pack delayed again--now 3/31/10
oh yeah, and when is the touch coming? -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75049 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] What happens when source changes URL
Yes, radiotime seems to have updated at least some of the CBC URLs. I'm still having a lot of trouble but that is because of the CBC itself - the streams seem to be intermittent. I expect they will sort things out eventually. -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75019 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] What happens when source changes URL
I think you are right that the changes are not finalized. Even the correct feeds are somewhat intermittent (the annoying message referred to above mentions possible outages). To find the new URLs go here: http://www.cbc.ca/listen/index.html if you start a stream in your browser a player window should open that includes an explicit reference to the URL It seems CBC has switched from WMA streams to MP3 streams so that is good (but it SHOULD have been OGG). -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75019 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] What happens when source changes URL
thanks for the quick reply I have radiotime plugin checked - but I'm not sure what it is supposed to do If I go to "internet radio - local" on the radio it just sends me to the URL with the annoying message that the URLs have been changed I went to the radiotime web site and went through the registration process (blah blah) only to find that radiotime only found the cbc URLs with the annoying message that the URLs have been changed Is there any reason to think that radiotime will update their URLs any faster than logitech? But perhaps I am misunderstanding something about radiotime. So - pardon my ignorance - how does one configure and use radiotime? thanks again -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75019 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
[SlimDevices: Radio] What happens when source changes URL
This morning I find that none of the CBC (canada) radio stations are working. Instead, one gets an audio message that URLs have been changed "to improve service". My question here is ... what next? Do I have to input URLs by hand or is there some system by which logitech updates internet radio links? Or is this my fault? Is there some way to force an update of links for internet radio which I have failed to do? thanks in advance -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75019 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Battery and wifi performance of Radio
AFAIK, modern batteries have no memory effect and deteriorate whether used or not (maybe you can extend their shelf life by keeping them half charged in the refrigerator). I hope/expect that the circuitry will let the battery drop to 90% or so before initiating a recharge (that's how my laptop works) so we won't get too many recharges (that will kill the battery). -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68100 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Status of radio battery?
this guy built one http://cms.diodenring.de/de/electronic/microcontroller/92-squeezebox -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70815 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Radio refuses to display screensavers
the radio has the rdate command so if you ssh into the radio you can run, e.g. rdate -s rdate.cpanel.net -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74603 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Second Half of January
you have to understand, rechargeable AA batteries after all are extremely rare and taping together a bunch of them and soldering on a connector is a formidable technical challenge almost at the limit of our civilization's current capabilities -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74173 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Can i connect this to my home stereo system?
"headphone socket which you could use with an appropriate cable" I can say this works great - the output is quite high quality -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74167 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Disappearing Presets
"Please note that just yesterday we rolled out some changes which sould solve this issue. Please verify if you're still seeing the issue." If "you" rolled out something how would it find its way to my radio? (I did try once going to the settings-advanced-download and the radio suddenly went into download mode, after about 30 minutes it reached 99%, hard locked and I had to power cycle it - luckily it returned unharmed. Scared me though.) -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74079 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Title Format on Radio
Hey Japes - if you ever do figure out how info screen works please spare a minute to explain it here. I tried it and found it completely opaque - I did once get a weird cycling "now playing" screens that I didn't want or understand why it was happening :) -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74081 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Radio Station Issue
"The workaround is to add "#slim:noscan=1,aid=2"" So many secret incantations! Is there a guide or manual that lists, explains and provides examples of them ALL anywhere? TIA -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73904 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] NTP on Squeezebox Radio?
The radio has rdate on it, but no cron function (is that right?). But it's not that hard to set up a remote command on the local server to set the time once a day (or whenever). Something like: ssh r...@squeezebox 'rdate -s rdate.cpanel.net' (you have to set up authorized keys on the squeezebox to avoid it asking for a password) -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73808 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
[SlimDevices: Radio] replace default "no cover art" image
I'd like to replace the default no cover art image (the one that shows when no cover art is available) since I don't like the default "fake cd" look. I replaced /usr/share/jive/applets/QVGAbaseSkin/images/IconsResized/icon_album_noart.png and /usr/share/jive/applets/QVGAbaseSkin/images/IconsResized/icon_album_noart_143.png with blank images of same size to test but this had no effect. Anyone know how to do this. TIA -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73153 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
[SlimDevices: Radio] photos without flickr?
Is there any way to display photos from my squeezebox server machine rather than through flickr? TIA -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73088 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] "Your player was not found"
sorry to reply to myself but I found the setting for manually adding a library and it worked don't know why it would not show up automatically though ... -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73046 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
[SlimDevices: Radio] "Your player was not found"
Although I like the SBR it seems it does not work properly for me. I have the feeling that this thing was released a little before it was ready. Here is my setup. I have a home network with a desktop (call it X) computer running gentoo linux as my router, dhcp server etc. Plus several computers on the network (linux, macs, windows). The SBR has no trouble seeing the libraries of all the computers on the network except for X. When I go to X's squeezebox server settings page I get the "Your player has not been found" message and in the information tab it reports zero players found. But on the main page of squeezebox server the squeezebox radio appears in the drop down list of players under "choose player" but I cannot actually choose it (nothing happens at all). The strangest thing of all is that last night it was working perfectly with computer X !!?? I turned off the SBR and moved it and since then I am having the problems described above. Actually, it was worse than that. To get the SBR to connect to ANY squeezebox server in the network I had to restore factory settings. (Does that happen every time you unplug it?) Any advice would be appreciated. -- albright albright's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35256 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73046 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
