oh well. TBH it was the less patient SB users (not too far away from me)
who were getting annoyed by the 2 second wait.
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
You can also walk through each field rapidly without changing it using
the FWD button.
That's not quite true when using a wireless connection - you end
JJP Wrote:
As funkstar said, you lose ecological brownie points if you're out all
day.
I'd be intrigued to know how many of us really kill all the power
consumption in our houses when we go out. I suspect that the fraction
of a watt consumed by a quiet SB would be dwarfed by
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Do you leave your clocks, microwave oven, VCR, TV, cordless phone base
station, mobile phone charger, laptop power supply, automatic light
controller, doorbell transformer, cable/DSL modem, router, cordless
power tool charger, electric razor, or answering machine plugged in
when you're out all
When i'm out during the day all my AV equipment is off at the wall. Same
with all the wall warts that power my PC/laptop peripherals.
When i'm away on business the only things that stay on are two lights
on timers, fridge and main heating everything else is off. It might not
make a lot of
JJP Wrote:
That's not quite true when using a wireless connection - you end up with
about 10 FWD presses.
What I meant was it's lots faster than walking through every field one
character at a time.
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Mark Lanctot
ceejay Wrote:
I suspect that the fraction of a watt consumed by a quiet SB would be
dwarfed by..
Not quite a fraction: 6 watts in standby x ? no. of units.
Anyway, you can prob ignore me as with no mains electric, I get
particularly retentive about this sort of stuff. Wattometers are
Originally Posted by ceejay:
I'd be intrigued to know how many of us really kill all the power
consumption in our houses when we go out. I suspect that the fraction
of a watt consumed by a quiet SB would be dwarfed
Need to shut off because of static on nearby AM tuner.
JJP Wrote:
Yes - I turn my units on/off at the power source.
On the rare occasions that I remove power from my SB2, I also get the
invitation to set up networking when it is re-powered. But if you just
ignore it and do nothing, it then reconnects by itself after a few
seconds. (This is with a
cliveb Wrote:
On the rare occasions that I remove power from my SB2, I also get the
invitation to set up networking when it is re-powered. But if you just
ignore it and do nothing, it then reconnects by itself after a few
seconds. (This is with a wired SB, by the way - I don't know if a
-Is there anyway I can stop this coming up when turning on a
squeezebox?-
I don't think so.
-It can be too easy to end up in the network setup pages through
impatience / twitchy fingertips..-
Just don't touch anything unless you get connection
failure. Step away from the remote.
You can also walk through each field rapidly without changing it using
the FWD button.
Although as others have stated the best thing is to wait for a few
seconds and it will connect on its own.
The Squeezebox is intended to be an always-on device. In fact, the
blank screensaver is a recent
Although being able to remove the setup screnn when the SB3 boots would
be nice it isn't a problem for me.
I always switch off my devices when i'm not home, this also applies to
my digital set top box, plasma, surround amp, powered speakers (for my
bedroom SB3).
There are some crazy statistics
JJP Wrote:
Is there anyway I can stop this coming up when turning on a squeezebox?
It can be too easy to end up in the network setup pages through
impatience / twitchy fingertips..
Ideally i'd like a player setting for 'do not offer network setup on
startup (unless connection fails)'
Ben Sandee Wrote:
On 3/31/06, JJP JJP.25jqez1143828901 (AT) no-mx (DOT)
forums.slimdevices.com wrote:
Is there anyway I can stop this coming up when turning on a
squeezebox?
It can be too easy to end up in the network setup pages through
impatience / twitchy fingertips..
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