Re: [slim] piCorePlayer advice needed

2020-01-18 Thread satkinsn
My capacity to do the wrong thing never ceases to amaze me. I finally got the RPi back on wireless tonight. But that was only after a.) trying to solve the problem by turning off wifi completely rather than just disabling the internal hardware, b.) trying a workaround using an old gaming hotspot

Re: [slim] piCorePlayer advice needed

2020-01-09 Thread satkinsn
paul- wrote: > Before you go too far, perhaps try pCP 6.0.0-b7, it is using a newer > version of wpa_supplicant.Otherwise, you can disable the rpi wifi on > the pCP wifi page. Thanks. Will do. s. satkinsn's Profile:

Re: [slim] piCorePlayer advice needed

2020-01-09 Thread paul-
satkinsn wrote: > That's my next thought. What do I need to do to disable the internal > wifi? I'm ok with editing the configuaration files. > > tks, > > s. Before you go too far, perhaps try pCP 6.0.0-b7, it is using a newer version of wpa_supplicant.Otherwise, you can disable the rpi wi

Re: [slim] piCorePlayer advice needed

2020-01-09 Thread satkinsn
paul- wrote: > Hope someone with an orbi can chime in. Do you have a USB based wifi > stick. Perhaps disable the rpi wifi and try an external. That's my next thought. What do I need to do to disable the internal wifi? I'm ok with editing the configuaration files. tks, s. -

Re: [slim] piCorePlayer advice needed

2020-01-09 Thread Tim Požár
I have been pretty happy with my PiCorePlayer. I did a blog entry on it at https://blog.lns.com/?p=151 The way I got this going was to plug the Raspberry Pi plug into my wired network, log int and have it look for my wireless network, select the SSID and put in the creds (PSK). Save and reboot w

Re: [slim] piCorePlayer advice needed

2020-01-09 Thread paul-
Hope someone with an orbi can chime in. Do you have a USB based wifi stick. Perhaps disable the rpi wifi and try an external. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate' (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donation

Re: [slim] piCorePlayer advice needed

2020-01-09 Thread satkinsn
Well, not so much. I'm not a wizard but I'm also not terrible when it comes to computers and networking. I put in some quality time last night and again tonight with the Orbi admin software and I see neither any 'smart' features - or anything that might fill the bill -nor any way to assign separ

Re: [slim] piCorePlayer advice needed

2020-01-08 Thread satkinsn
Thank you! Will poke around the router software some more... s. satkinsn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11398 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111458 __

Re: [slim] piCorePlayer advice needed

2020-01-08 Thread paul-
That router is known to have some problems. There is a feature in the orbi that you need to disable. Also, run the 2.4 and 5G on separate ssids. I don’t exactly recall the feature, but look in the router confine for “smart” features, and turn them off. piCorePlayer a small player for the Ra

[slim] piCorePlayer advice needed

2020-01-08 Thread satkinsn
All - Since my Squeezebox Classic is out of commission waiting for a new wall wart, I decided to move my piCorePlayer to the family room, where my main system lives. Unfortunately, at the same time I upgraded my wifi to cure some long-standing problems in my home. The cure worked, but my new sys