Hi all, After about a year of no problems with our Squeezebox 3 (it's one of the last Slim Devices branded units), it has stopped playing in the middle of a song and disappeared from the network twice, and I can't get it back today :(
It's on a wired network, running from Squeezecenter (7.3.2) on a local PC, the Squeezebox has a static IP address, and has been playing mostly local FLAC files and sometimes internet radio stations with no problems. The other day, when the SB3 quit playing, pressing the power button on the remote made it say it was waking up squeezecenter ... connecting to squeezecenter ... unable to connect to squeezecenter, and retrying multiple times didn't fix it. Next we tried stopping and starting squeezecenter on the host PC and power cycling the SB3, which got it back and playable again, but today, no dice. After the music suddenly stopped today, I tried restarting squeezecenter and the SB3 to no avail, so I did more troubleshooting, but with no change so far: - dust-off blast in the network port on the SB3 - different network cable - different switch port - connecting directly to the router (running DD-WRT 2.3 SP2) instead of the gigabit switch (linksys EG008W ver. 3) everything else is also connected through - DHCP instead of static IP address (unable to find DHCP server error message quickly or unable to obtain IP address error after the 30 second timeout) - pinging the static IP address of the SB3 from a PC on the network (no reply) - hardware reset from the menu (no change, other than after reconfiguring, it didn't know about our squeezecenter server, so I had to attempt to connect by it's IP address, to no avail) - connect to squeezenetwork (unable to find an address for squeezenetwork) On the router and switch I'm connecting to, the network lights for the port I have the SB3 connected to are always on correctly, and when I disconnect the cables, the SB3 complains about the Ethernet cable not being connected. When connected, the SB3 can't see anything on the network anymore, and nothing on the network can see it anymore. No changes have been made to the network for a while, the last was adding the gigabit switch a few months ago. Other items on the network are Windows and Linux PCs and a Popcorn Hour A-100 networked media streamer (no, even though it plays FLAC files, it is definitely not a substitute for a squeezebox. It's great for video though, but I digress.) I'm beginning to think the network port or chip on the SB3 has become flaky or partly died :( Is a bad/flaky network port a known hardware failure on the SB3? Can anyone think of anything else to try? Thanks in advance for any help! -- guirara ------------------------------------------------------------------------ guirara's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30844 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64222 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
