Could someone describe to me why this is important to non technical
users who don't have the knowledge to use the workaround ?
Could you also describe why you care what IP address the Squeezebox
have ?
All my non technical friends who bye a router use DHCP and never care
what IP address their devices have. For more advanced users that
actually care, mostly just configure a fixed IP in the router for a
specific MAC address.
I'm not against adding support for configuring static IP's as long as
it doesn't result in other more important bugs and enhancements gets
postponed or never fixed. Unfortunately, Logitech have decided to
dedicate just a few developers to the Squeezebox development and due to
this fixing enhancements like static IP's will result in that other
stuff isn't implemented. Historically, a lot of complaints in the forum
for geeky stuff like this has often resulted in that it got prioritized
just to silence the crowd, with the result that there is no time to
implement stuff that would enhance the Squeezebox products as a music
listening device for the mass market or music lovers. I know it's not
really our responsibility to think about things like this, I just get a
bit frustrated when major enhancements never gets priority because
Logitech sometimes (IMHO) puts too much focus on stuff that won't
enhance the music listening experience.
I should say that I personally use static IP's on some of my devices in
my local network. The only reason I do so is because I want to be able
to access these devices through SSH or some similar protocol and then I
need to know their address. For the Squeezeboxes I've just solved this
by configuring a fixed IP in the DHCP server configuration in the
router. For some other devices I use real static IP's because there are
limitations how many fixed IP's the cheap router I have can handle.
If there is some issue where the system stops working if the IP address
is changed by the DHCP server, that issue should be solved instead of
forcing the user to setup a static IP.
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