The short answer to this complaint is that the player feature of the SBC *is* a beta feature and is advertised as such, expect the unexpected.
sander;437541 Wrote: > Just adding my 2 cents as another Duet user. To me the issue is the > powering down just makes the device unusable in many instances, if you > keep it cradled generally or use it constantly so it doesn't power down > its great. > > I use the Duet kind of like I would a Squeezebox touch, really I use it > as a screen for the receiver near by receiver in my kitchen, and > occasionally for a controller when it's helpful to see more screen real > estate. For this its been great, and based on my limited usage its been > great, and my girl friend really bought into the squeezebox system with > the expanded ui. > > That said if it goes to sleep all bets are off. Half the time it can't > connect and often it just needs to be rebooted. As it is sitting in the > charger it drops in and out of the player list in Squeezecenter. > > Now before people accuse me of having some flakey network I have an Sb3 > and Boom which are twice as far as the controller ever gets and they > stay connected 24/7. > > The issue is the SqueezeOS stuff is still pretty primitive and flakey > next to the SB2 approach which has been honed over a period of years. I > hope it will mature, but time will tell. -- 86atc250r ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 86atc250r's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15476 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65198 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
