Chunkywizard;499808 Wrote:
Hi Erland,
I tried stopping SBS and editing the customclockhelper.prefs file but
it didn't work. I tried added item1position: and item1position: '' but
neither made the option appear. In fact adding the lines meant my custom
clock no longer appeared in the pull
If everything else fails you could potentially setup your laptop with
internet connection sharing and connect via that one.
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I use AES with my WPA2, no problems.
Does your Tomato FW allow for IP assignment by MAC address?
I do get the occasional disconnect from MySB with the Radio, but never
a disconnect or re-connect issue with my router (network).
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I am using Squuezebox Server Version: 7.4.1 - r28947 @ Tue Oct 20
07:58:02 PDT 2009
Your plugin sounds like just the trick I was looking for. My basic
usage of the sleep timer is to load up a random song in my Pzizz Sleep
album then set the sleep timer to end of song. If the plugin can do
kmr;499195 Wrote:
Actually, I've now had my bedside Radio for about 2 months now, and I
can pretty much always find the buttons I need by touch, even in the
middle of the night. I understand that the backlit buttons are pretty
expensive, so I appreciate not having to pay the extra price for
Most hotels have a portal login regardless of cost. They usually do this
to limit the number of consecutive days the same MAC connects to the
network so nearby residents don't get free internet.
Also, if you setup an ad-hoc network that won't work. You would need to
setup the network in
Unpacked my radio, looks nice. Tried to hookup to my (running !) SBS
7.4.1. No dice.
WTF?
Do I really need to hook up to mysqueezebox.com? Which does not
currently work by the way.
All I want is to stream some local music ...
There are not that many options available on first installation,
w42;500019 Wrote:
Unpacked my radio, looks nice. Tried to hookup to my (running !) SBS
7.4.1. No dice.
WTF?
Do I really need to hook up to mysqueezebox.com? Which does not
currently work by the way.
All I want is to stream some local music ...
There are not that many options available
snarlydwarf;500023 Wrote:
It should work fine for local music.
That's what I was hoping for ;-)
snarlydwarf;500023 Wrote:
Are you running a firewall? Can other machines on your network connect
to your music server?
I am, but it is blocking internet access, not on my 'local network'.
jrebeiro;500011 Wrote:
Most hotels have a portal login regardless of cost. They usually do this
to limit the number of consecutive days the same MAC connects to the
network so nearby residents don't get free internet.
Also, if you setup an ad-hoc network that won't work. You would need to
Looks that way. Connection to mysb.com finally succeeded, new firmware
downloaded, etc.
Now I am finally able to play my music.
Not sure whether SBR and myself will become friends ...
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I get those same messages on alot of stations too
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It IS a bit annoying before forced to register against a mysb.com
account. I was baffled myself when I set mine up after unwrapping mine
on xmas morning. Apparently you can get out of it by holding the back
button down when you're prompted for your email address, but I haven't
tried this
Aslak3;500056 Wrote:
It IS a bit annoying before forced to register against a mysb.com
account.
Especially since I think I ran into a (temporary) service outage. Very
frustrating.
Anyways the radio is playing and the misses has not asked me to switch
it off yet, so there is hope ;-)
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Ive just got a SB Radio and its showing odd behaviour when left in
Standby.
When I use the power off button to take it to standby mode the clock is
displayed as expected, but then approx 1 hour later the radio has
automatically fully powered itself off and not displaying the clock. I
would have
I use mine daily as an alarm clock. It's only failed once, when my
wireless router died. I don't think it will ever be as reliable as a
dedicated battery alarm clock, however...it's just too complex.
I like the alarm function, I only wish I could figure out how to get it
to display current time
Aslak3;500056 Wrote:
. Apparently you can get out of it by holding the back button down
when you're prompted for your email address, but I haven't tried this
myself...
This is correct, but undocumented. I've done this several times.
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lemmy999;500018 Wrote:
I let it run for 10 hours straight last night. When I woke up there was
no signal (strength indicator showed red). I then tried to reconnect
and it wouldn't do it. I then tried other networks. It found my
network (SSF_NET) and many others, but it showed mine as
In my case I did not even get to the part of entering an email address
as the connection to mysb was not possible shortly after unpacking ...
I'm going to try a factory reset later and see if the back button
thingy also works when a connection is not possible.
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Today I looked clearly at the error, (instead of just hearing second
hand about the problem from my partner). Upon pushing a preset and
coming out of standby, the error came up: there is a problem connection
to mysqueezebox.com. Checking the diags, Diagnostcs screen chows DNS
failed for
ModelCitizen;40 Wrote:
However, the reason I've given up using my radio as my bedroom alarm
clock and stuck the too-large Boom back on my small bedside table is
that the radio screen is too bright to sleep next too and (unlike the
Boom) it is not possible to reduce its
I can't for the life or me figure out how to view/listen to either the
RSS feeds or the Podcasts I have configured in SBS. I can get at both
through my Boom. Does anyone know what I'm missing?
Lawrence
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Coume;499952 Wrote:
Is the alarm clock reliable on it?
Not really.
Coume;499952 Wrote:
Anyone currently using the squeezebox radio on a daily basis as it's
alarm clock?
Indeed I used it for about two months now and it only failed a few
times completely. There were about a dozen semi-fails
I wouldn't trust it. This thing is NOWHERE NEAR the quality of the
Squeezebox or even the Boom.
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toby10;500098 Wrote:
Yeah, that is odd and why I suggested trying a long term stream test.
Just for others FYI (or reminder) the Radio's WiFi indicator has three
colors:
Red = not connected to network
Blue = connected to network but NOT connected to server (SBS or MySB)
White = connected
ModelCitizen;40 Wrote:
However, the reason I've given up using my radio as my bedroom alarm
clock and stuck the too-large Boom back on my small bedside table is
that the radio screen is too bright to sleep next too and (unlike the
Boom) it is not possible to reduce its minimum
snarlydwarf;500190 Wrote:
I don't see what that has to do with a backlit LCD display vs a VFD
display which is what ModelCitizen was citing.
I meant that add-on developers have found ways to work around problems
like this in the past. They obviously can't overcome oversights in the
hardware,
I have been playing from 8AM this morning until 22:35 and it is working
fine. I do a rescan of the library at 4AM and I would bet that is when
the Radio is screwing up. It seems that any time the server is
unavailable for any period of time, it is unable to reconnect. I am
going to leave it
Does the squeezbox server recognize the --replay-gain tags in FLAC
files?
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jrebeiro;55 Wrote:
I've never had an alarm clock that didn't have backlit buttons... or a
snooze/sleep button for that matter.
Hmmm...I've never had an alarm clock WITH backlit buttons. The ones
I've had always had the buttons on top, and you had to memorize which
one was which. I've
erland;500216 Wrote:
If you are talking about SSH tunneling to home server I don't think that
will work with Squeezeplay, at least it hasn't earlier when I've tried
it. It works great with old Squeezebox'es but not with the new products
based on Squeezeplay. The problem as I've understood it
gdpeck;499876 Wrote:
I think the best solution for this issue is simply to make the next
alarm time be displayed on the clock whenever it is within 24hrs as
requested in bug 14708
https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14708
I don't think the two ideas are in conflict. Allowing a user
vintage veloce;500198 Wrote:
Yes, this is easy for the average user. Hah.
Well, like I said, it's *not* for the average user. On the other hand,
DHCP works for most users, so they don't need ssh. Just thought this
would tide you over until you got your wifi sorted out.
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peterw;500218 Wrote:
That's unfortunate, and a little surprising. I thought UDP was only used
for discovery of servers, so I'd expect the ability to manually enter
an IP or hostname (SqueezePlay should have no trouble with hostnames, at
least simple DNS names if not winbind) and just play
kmr;500212 Wrote:
otherwise use the replay gain value.
meaning the _track_ replay gain value
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sander;500209 Wrote:
When I mentioned this in another thread before the developer of the
awesome auto-dim mentioned he would have to write a Squeezeplay applet
to make the radio dim. Maybe the bug MC mentions prevents him from doing
that I don't know.
I think you may be talking about me,
eap;499859 Wrote:
Weird. I'm not having this issue at all. And I only stream sirius for
the most part.
Same here, I almost exclusively stream Sirius and have never had a
problem with rebooting. I have seen frequent reboots when playing media
off my SB Server.
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I imagine it sounds great. But in that case I would have probably spent
the extra money and picked up a Touch and used up even less space on
that small night table.
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Ok, so you've listed at least half a dozen reasons why the Radio is
inferior to the Boom. So why switch? IMO the Boom makes a much better
clock-radio replacement. The Radio was designed and produced to be sold
at a lower price point. Other than the color screen (which, IMO, is
much too small
JJZolx;500238 Wrote:
Other than the color screen (which, IMO, is much too small for any kind
of clock) and maybe the dedicated volume knob, there's nothing that
could be called an improvement over the Boom. The battery option makes
it more portable than the Boom, but doesn't even come into
I initially had problems with the alarm reliability. I was using one of
the sound effects (which actually require access to mysqueezebox.com),
and the alarm would fail to sound 1-2x per week (out of 5). I run SBS
on a local server 24/7, and never directly connect to mysqueezebox.com.
When the
I thought I was impervious to this bug as well, but while streaming
Sirius for about an hour last week, my radio rebooted. It did it again
a few days ago.
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I sure would not mind a simple 3 band equalizer.
Need a bit more bass and less treble for my taste.
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*squeezebox server* 7.4.1 on debian lenny/2.6.26-2-686
*plugins* findart, weathertime screensaver
lemmy999;500210 Wrote:
I do a rescan of the library at 4AM and I would bet that is when the
Radio is screwing up.
Full rescan or 'look for new and changed music' ?
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