mrw wrote:
> Logitech's players can't use the 5 GHz bands. The technology was not
> available when these devices were designed/manufactured.
Ah, Ok. Thanks. I thought Radio could.
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Something I never asked (or looked for), but do the connection issues
happen on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands? I had been using only 2.4 GHz
when all of my connection problems began.
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RobbH wrote:
> I have a situation in which my Radio display never times out, so the
> screensaver never appears.
I recently retired my Radio due to the wifi connection issues, but I had
this problem all the time, going back years. So it's not a recent issue
due to any firmware or server changes
I don't have wifi 6. A neighbor might. Nothing I can do about that.
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Off to the land of misfit toys.
Tried wlanpoke, tried community firmware, stock firmware, community
firmware again. No use. Can't stay connected for more than five minutes
sitting on top of the wifi access point. I won't be adding a wifi dongle
to make a wireless music player work.
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Sadly, wlanpoke did nothing for my Squeezebox Radio. I moved the Radio
to within three feet of my wireless access point. The signal couldn't be
any stronger. It still disconnects after a few minutes and stays
disconnected.
POMdev wrote:
> See "manual.txt" for more information.
>
> It sounds like the script is not being launched or failing.
Yeah, I failed to read the manual about how to enable the HTTP server,
but did so this morning. With the HTTP server running on port 80, now I
get the following:
Code:
After months of no problems with the Radio, I started having major
problems last week. It never stays connected for more than 10 minutes.
When it is on the network, signal strength in LMS shows only 73-78%,
where it used to always be at least 86%.
I installed wlanpoke and it's no better. Is ther
SlimChances wrote:
> I was referring to the VAP11G-300
My bad. I wasn't paying attention to the conversation.
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SlimChances wrote:
> Looks promising. Probably a stupid question but can I power the unit by
> plugging the power cord into the back of the radio (battery powered)
???
Yes. When plugged in it's powered off of the wall power while it also
charges the battery. Do you mean to say that you've neve
P Nelson wrote:
> Can this solution be implemented via the plug-in or patch process used
> for the Community Firmware? This would make it a lot easier to install
> the fix.
Yeah, I'm not familiar with this fix, but my first thought was why not
just bake this into the firmware if it's so benefi
If you're already running the community firmware, what does going to LMS
> Settings> Advanced > Community Firmware for Touch/Radio/Controller and
unchecking the box do? Will it revert to the standard firmware or just
not update when a new release comes out?
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I have an old Radio, actually one of the beta units, still going strong
after many years. But its rechargeable battery is shot. Where would I
find replacement cells to rebuild the battery pack? I'm assuming it can
be rebuilt just by replacing the cells.
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I was just trying to play the radio station below, found through TuneIn
and find the same thing. I think what's happening in my case is that the
playlist file doesn't exist.
Title: KRFC 88.9FM Radio Fort Collins
URL:
http://opml.radiotime.com/Tune.ashx?id=s44424&formats=aac,ogg,mp3,wmpro,wm
I suspect that works because that's the primary direction of the
interference.
I experience dropouts when I place the Radio on top of my fridge and use
the microwave. It sits about 3 ft away. Never had to actually restart
the Radio, but it does usually require pressing 'Play'.
slartibartfast wrote:
> Nope just tick the box in the plugin settings.
Ah, ok. Didn't realize there were any settings for the plugin, since
there's no link shown here:
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The plugin isn't working for me, either. Is there anything that needs to
be enabled on the Radio itself?
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gwferrei101 wrote:
> I just turned on my Squeezebox tonight and had the same issue. Did a
> search on the forum for the problem and found your post JJZolx. My
> thought is that the battery has probably at the end of it's life. It's
> seldom used these days on battery p
It wouldn't power back up if it was a faulty connection with the power
supply plug. I'll open it up and see if maybe there are any bad looking
connections with the battery pack.
Does the radio always show a charging indicator when plugged in? What I
suspect is happening is that it's fully chargi
One "feature" request for anyone working on this:
My Radio often cuts out, most often due to interference from using a
nearby microwave oven. The it instantly plays if I just hit the play
button. Would be nice if it were more robust and capable of doing this
on its own.
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I suspect the battery is on its last legs, but I also suspect the
Radio's firmware is broken.
Here's the behavior I'm seeing, pretty much every time now:
If the Radio has been plugged in for many hours or days, and I then
unplug it, it instantly turns off, or occasionally displays a low
batter
I still ask: Why not put the patched firmware out there instead of going
through those gyrations? What difference does it make if it's an
"official" release, since a patched firmware is no more official.
Or... If the Radio is actually connecting successfully with the server
(How would the server
Instead of going through all of that to patch the firmware, is there a
reason why a new version of the firmware can't just be released?
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I'm running LMS 8 and seeing this in the web UI on the
Settings>Information page:
You seem to be using a Radio with an outdated firmware, not recognizing
this version of Logitech Media Server. Please consider patching it.
The Radio has firmware 7.7.3-r16676, and it connects and works just fine
This has always been like this, but I was reminded of it again today. I
had my Radio, with battery, plugged in and playing for a couple of
hours. Then I unplugged it to move it another room to play on battery.
In less than a minute I got a low battery screen and it wouldn't play.
So I plugged it
I've been using my Radio for the past week as an alarm clock. I have one
alarm set at 7:45AM daily, which plays an album from my server. The
player isn't synched to any others, and no other players have alarms
set.
This morning, at exactly 6AM, the alarm went off playing the backup
alarm tune.
I've said this in some previous threads: I see exactly the same thing.
The Radio screen saver is often not in its proper state. I don't think
the Radio's firmware was ever completely debugged, and it never will be,
since nobody is doing any further work on it.
Could also be some overlooked issue
A "crash"? The Radio shouldn't be randomly crashing just because there's
no server. Did all of the other Radios have different settings for
-Power on Resume-?
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I never power down my LMS server, so this is only speculation...
In the web interface, check the player's "Power on Resume" setting in
Settings > Audio. Compare it to the setting for the other Radios. I
thought the setting was for handling the case of power the player
up/down, but maybe it also
Yes, I've also had issues with the power connector not making contact in
the jack. It seems to be a common problem with the Radio.
Software wise, the two biggest issues I've had are 1) the display state.
Often getting stuck in Now Playing after playback is paused or stopped,
and 2) Stopping playb
KeBul wrote:
> Just out of curiosity - which Spirit?
>
> I've noticed the buttons on my Boom are starting to stick.
>
> There's lots of "advice" out there on cleaning sticky rubber, from
> various car detailing products to talcum powder, my brother used
> aerospace protectant to clean the rubbe
Since the first Squeezebox I owned, some 12 years or so ago, I've seen
the issue where the server thinks it's streaming music, but the player
produces no music. Although I've seen in very seldom in recent years.
I doubt anything that has changed in LMS with regard to streaming, but
I'm seeing a l
kidstypike wrote:
> Is your Radio controlling another player?
No. There were no other players on the network at the time.
Rebooting the Radio seems to have cleared up the problem. It seems to me
more like the Radio often has no clue what state it's in. Problems with
the screen savers have been
Latest 7.9 LMS running on Windows. My Radio doesn't display the Now
Playing screensaver while playing (music from the local library).
Instead I get the off/stopped screensaver, which is the digital clock. I
also can't get the current playlist. Whenever I hit the Home button on
the Radio's front pa
wortgefecht wrote:
> Honestly, in my opinion, the Radios are my least favourite players. That
> said, I own two, one in the bathroom and one with several battery packs
> for our garden deck. Our Nnightstand players are two Booms. One with a
> subwoofer attached.
Same here. I have a Radio in my b
Where can the Radio's time remaining on the battery be viewed? And is
this information available anywhere in the web interface?
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I've always had odd screensaver and Now Playing behavior on the
Squeezebox Radio. It started during beta testing and exists to this day.
It's never worked right.
Probably half the time that the Radio isn't playing, it will be stuck in
the Now Playing screen instead of the clock screensaver, which
BobHelms wrote:
> OK so I'll hold off on 7.8 for the time being. But this does raise the
> question of how easy/difficult a new release is to install? Can it go
> right over top of the currently installed version? Do I lose any custom
> settings or setup parameters?
Yes, it just installs over to
jimbobvfr400 wrote:
> Added in 7.8 i think.
>
> It's in the player menu in LMS settings, I don't have a Duet myself but
> see no reason why that won't have the same options.
>
> Its a per player setting so needs setting for each player if you have
> more than 1
Ok. I see it, but only for the T
garym wrote:
> is "defeat destructive play" an option somewhere that is set? Don't see
> it. Or maybe it just becomes standard with 7.8?
I've never seen it either. Is it a SqueezePlay option?
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Unlike some other systems, LMS has a "Current Playlist" that is an ad
hoc play list to which you can add single tracks, multiple tracks,
albums, even radio stations, to at any time.
I don't have a Duet with Controller, so can't really tell you how to add
tracks using the Controller, but I'm sure
The Touch is thought by many to have better sound quality, but I have a
feeling that you may be perfectly happy with either the Squeezebox 2 or
Squeezebox 3 (aka Squeezebox Classic). The SB2 and SB3/Classic differ a
little in their cosmetics, but they're virtually identical in their
internal hardw
reinholdk wrote:
> From the Settings menu I found that the hardware revision of the old one
> is '4' while the new one is '7'. Don't know what Logitech changed, but I
> wouldn't expect that one could hear a difference between different
> versions.
Why would you not expect that?
If the second on
Then there's probably no reason to encourage continued discussion in
these forums about a product that isn't a Squeezebox and doesn't use
Squeezebox Server.
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The L/UE Radio doesn't work with LMS?
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When you get to the mysqb.com part of the registration in the setup try
holding down the left-arrow button, which may let you escape out to the
Home menu.
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It doesn't hurt anything to register it. You can ignore mysb.com
integration in the local server by not entering an email/password in the
settings of LMS.
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Thanks for the clarification. I'll have to try it again and maybe close
that bug.
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Mnyb wrote:
> If you manually places the files in the updates folder and turn on
> updates it works, but as you actually turned on updates you better not
> be connected to the internet .then your files get overwritten with the
> latest ? thats how i think it works stephentw just did that I done
With the Radio, I don't believe that you -can- do manual updates. With
the older players it's just a matter of downloading the firmware and
.version files and placing them in the cache/updates folder. With the
new players it seems that the server must itself first download the
firmware from the 'n
All of my Squeezeboxes reconnect by themselves to the wifi network and
to the server if the wireless router is brought down and then brought
back up.
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m1abrams wrote:
> Maybe try using one of the darker backgrounds too
I hadn't thought of that. Yes, make sure you're using the clock with the
black background, which throws off less light at a given brightness
level.
JJZol
franglais wrote:
> In Automatic dimming mode, the screen won't dim to complete blackness,
> even when I have a thick cloth draped over it; in an unlit room at
> night, and peeking through the bottom left corner of the cloth, I can
> see the display is still on.
It's not supposed to go completely
Muele wrote:
> I think JJZolx posted in the wrong thread.
I think you're right. :)
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Good question. Could be considered a bug, or maybe just a limitation of
how volume synch works. See the following thread, where I recently had
some questions about volume synching.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?93028
Try the recommended SyncOptions plugin. In the web interface, go
Hobgoblin wrote:
> Ah yes. Kids have both discovered that endless source of amusement. In
> fact if I was competent to write a plugin, it would be one which allowed
> you to restrict which players can control which streams.
This is a big part of the reasoning behind multi-user enhancements that
I see problems with the Radio screensavers all the time. It's common to
find it stuck in Now Playing, the current playlist, or a menu when it's
not playing.
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uch and Radio don't have much extra flash storage space.
I suspect that if they were to start all over, didn't have to support
the older players, and were working with devices that weren't crippled
by having too little memory and CPU power, they m
ause and resume. A CD player is no
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o the Home menu and save one menu level.
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Scroll down in the context menu. There should be more selections.
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MeSue;673479 Wrote:
> I thought presets were a per-player setting, so how can it be tied to
> favorites?
For some unknown reason when a new player is created I believe they're
initialized to be the same as whatever is in favorites.
I believe they're just copied from the first N favorites. Maybe you
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orkarounds. For example,
maybe try changing the network type to ethernet, then back to wireless.
Or try connecting to a different wireless network (if there happens to
be one nearby), then when it fails switch back to the old one. Not
obvious, but it wou
It's just a login name. I'm not sure it has to even work as an email
address unless you need to reset your password. You shouldn't have to
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»
» Download 'Squeezebox Server 7.5.6 r35834'
(http://
I don't use mysqueezebox.com (Logitech's server on the internet that you
use when your local server is shut down), but I would guess that the
limit is not configurable.
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You can change the playlist limit using the web interface at Settings >
Advanced > Performance. It's set to 500 by default to keep from
swamping underpowered servers. Set it to 0 for 'unlimited'.
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lts to DISCO all the time" thread after I accumulate
> some information.
Why wait? Set an alarm for 10 minutes from now and see if it works.
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You're very lucky that the Radio remembers more than one password. Old
Squeezeboxes weren't capable of that.
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ther Squeezeboxes that it was synced with continue
playing music like the day they were born. Touching any of the Radio's
front panel controls unsilences the Radio and it starts playing again
like it never happened.
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n't make a difference, then I'd also try doing
a factory reset. Never hurts to start over from scratch.
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f it's not, then it might not automatically reconnect
and would instead prompt you.
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It should automatically log in again to the same network.
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el controls just to
select music it locks up on me and then reboots. It's a lost cause.
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ure screens it's not obvious that you're looking at a menu that
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Mark any desired radio station as a Favorite, then you'll be able to
select it as the alarm sound.
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alarm
off completely requires slightly more thought, but it's not much
different than my electronic alarm clock where you have to locate a
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Still have your old alarm clock? Set it 5 minutes after the radio alarm
and don't worry about it. You'll know soon enough how reliable the
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I only have one Radio in the sync group, usually with an SB2 and
Transporter. The rest of the sync group acts normally. It's only the
radio that falls out.
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I've seen the behavior where the Radio goes silent when synced. Like
you say, usually turning the volume knob brings it back. Other times
I've had to power it down completely and back up again to get it
working.
They may get the Radio sorted out yet.
mote control and the
> battery. TRUE you get a remote and a battery for $50.00 that but what
> do you do when you will NEVER use the remote.
The remote probably cost them less than a dollar to manufacture.
Consider it free. You bought a $50 bat
me serious
connectivity problems that may have actually gotten worse with the most
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unusual setup, but I was a bit dismayed when I saw just
how deeply they buried the remote server option and where they put it.
I'm amazed that you found it at all. I seem to recall that setup of a
remote server had been in the My Music menu at one time (probably still
du
g the Squeezebox a bad reputation for both usability
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e yourself a couple of menu levels. Go to Settings > Brightness
and touch-hold the Manual Brightness menu item. The context menu will
show a selection to add it to the home menu.
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If you haven't yet run a full 'Clear library and rescan everything'
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> There is only a pause button, how would you stop oterwise?
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nt. There's no such thing as
a critical problem for a product that represents 1/1000th of 1% of a
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sound the backup alarm.
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16446
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16190
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ing audio? Is the connection
bandwidth shown in your router?
The Radio when 'off' (standby) is still connected to your network and
to mysb.com or to your local server, so there will still be some
minimal amount of t
uld use it at home if you
want to switch your server off, or not even have a server. Or you can
use it away from home. Only with a local Squeezebox Server running can
you listen to your music files.
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wered on, isn't simply pressing
'Play' enough to resume the stream? The radio station should still be
in the playlist, so I don't see why you would have to queue it up again
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