Hi.

I have a very strange problem with my SqueezeBox3 and SqueezeCenter
7.2.

My setup:
The SB3 is connector to my wireless network (signal strength: 85%).
The SC server is wired and runs on a newly out of the box Asus Eee Box
B202 (Intel Atom 1.6GHz and 1GB ram, XP Home), which should be well
powered to run SqueezeCenter.
The music (in Flac) is stored on a Synology DS107+ NAS.

My problem:
When first booting the server and starting SC everything seems to work
normal. There are no delays while browsing the menus and change
brightness on the SB3.
But after a while browsing, the menus are very slow, and sometimes
nothing happens.
Pressing the brightness might in some cases change the brightness and
if anything happens it is delayed for maybe 5-10 sec. it feels mostly
like the remote has run out of battery.

My observations:
To monitor the Asus Eee Box power consumption I have connected a power
meter to the mains.
When the SB3 is running perfect the power meter shows about 13.5W, and
the CPU load is 0-1%. But after a while the power drops to about 11.5W
and now the SB3 response are useless. In this state the music can still
be streamed, but changing track or brightness is a none existing
feature.
What I find a bit funny is that the SB3 reverts to normal response if I
on the server starts streaming a movie or even runs a simple VB script
only containing a Do..Loop. This will raise the power to about 15W, but
when stopping the streamed video the power drops to 13.5W and the system
is still usable. Exactly (or around) 405 sec after stopping the video
stream, the power again drops to 11.5W and the SB3 response are
useless.

I have measured the 405 sec’s many times to be sure and it never fails,
something happens, but what and where??

It seems like there is strong connection between the power consumption
and the SB3 response, but I can’t figure out what it can be!!
Why can’t the SC run under these "conditions" like all other normal
programs??
Internet Explorer and other programs doesn’t seems to be affected.

Can someone please help me, before I’m going totally crazy???


Kind regards,
Mads


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