Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to reboot Touch?

2010-11-13 Thread firedog
magiccarpetride;585056 Wrote: Thanks. This button press at the back of Touch is not considered intrusive? What's the difference between that hardware reset and a simply unplug/plug in again? Short (1 second) press on the button restarts the Touch. It's like telling your PC to restart instead

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to reboot Touch?

2010-11-12 Thread Waldo Pepper
JJZolx;585058 Wrote: I don't imagine there's any difference. The difference is that a power off clears its basic memory and starts again looking for files that already exist using network settings that already exist. The cold boot by use of the rear switch clears everthing and things like

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to reboot Touch?

2010-11-12 Thread JJZolx
Waldo Pepper;588927 Wrote: The difference is that a power off clears its basic memory and starts again looking for files that already exist using network settings that already exist. The cold boot by use of the rear switch clears everthing and things like your network/wireless settings

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to reboot Touch?

2010-11-12 Thread aubuti
Waldo Pepper;588927 Wrote: The difference is that a power off clears its basic memory and starts again looking for files that already exist using network settings that already exist. The cold boot by use of the rear switch clears everthing and things like your network/wireless settings

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to reboot Touch?

2010-10-26 Thread maggior
It's an appliance, so I would hope that no harm would be done if you just pulled the plug. The fact that it is running Linux should not matter. -- maggior Rich - Setup: 2 SB3s, 4 Booms, 1 Duet, 1 Receiver, 1 Touch. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeBoxServer 7.5.0, MusicIP, and

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to reboot Touch?

2010-10-25 Thread aubuti
Press the small hardware reset button on the back. It's on the lower left side as you face the front of the Touch. If you hold it for ~15 seconds it will do a factory reset of the Touch, and the screen will confirm that it is doing a factory reset. -- aubuti

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to reboot Touch?

2010-10-25 Thread Mark Miksis
I don't have one in front of me right now, but isn't it in the menus somewhere? Maybe under Settings-Advanced? -- Mark Miksis Mark Miksis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to reboot Touch?

2010-10-25 Thread magiccarpetride
JJZolx;585049 Wrote: There's a 'Restore Factory Settings' in advanced settings, but I don't see a simple reboot. I always just use the button. I don't want to restore factory settings, because I may have made some mods to the config files. I just want a simple warm reboot. --

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to reboot Touch?

2010-10-25 Thread JJZolx
magiccarpetride;585050 Wrote: I don't want to restore factory settings, because I may have made some mods to the config files. I just want a simple warm reboot. I realize that. Just use the button. Do a short press to reboot. It's only when you hold the button for 15 or more seconds that

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to reboot Touch?

2010-10-25 Thread magiccarpetride
JJZolx;585053 Wrote: I realize that. Just use the button. Do a short press to reboot. It's only when you hold the button for 15 or more seconds that it performs a full factory reset. It's nearly impossible to do a factory reset by mistake. Thanks. This button press at the back of Touch

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to reboot Touch?

2010-10-25 Thread JJZolx
magiccarpetride;585056 Wrote: Thanks. This button press at the back of Touch is not considered intrusive? What's the difference between that hardware reset and a simply unplug/plug in again? I don't imagine there's any difference. -- JJZolx

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to reboot Touch?

2010-10-25 Thread pski
JJZolx;585058 Wrote: I don't imagine there's any difference. Couldn't be any difference, could there? I mean in one case it's go back to the factory and in the other its you've been unplugged. Has anything changed since it was first plugged-in? Did it start listening/talking to some music

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to reboot Touch?

2010-10-25 Thread JJZolx
pski;585069 Wrote: Couldn't be any difference, could there? I mean in one case it's go back to the factory and in the other its you've been unplugged. Huh? The reset button can be used to do either a reboot or a factory reset. Read the whole thread. -- JJZolx

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to reboot Touch?

2010-10-25 Thread aubuti
magiccarpetride;585056 Wrote: Thanks. This button press at the back of Touch is not considered intrusive? What's the difference between that hardware reset and a simply unplug/plug in again? Sorry if I wasn't clear earlier that you can do _either_ a short press (~2 sec) for a warm reboot, or