Hi all, Lots of thanks due to everyone. Particularly to Gary - following that measured shut-down and restart procedure, I now have all the players back, and the LMS and PC IP addresses are the same. This suggests a big part of this was my ignorance about starting the router first, and to use a good Scots word, it just got itself in a fankle dishing out IP addresses? A couple of the players seemed a little reluctant to switch over to the 'my music' source, but they did. And the Touch was 'confusing' and seemed to want to start its own version of LMS, but we're there now.
John - when I got your first message this morning, I did go off and research DCHP and TCP/IP and other stuff that took me to. Still a bit cloudy, but I do know a bit more. As I said above, it's a pretty basic system, with one device as a gateway/router. There is no separate modem. If the PC is acting as a DCHP server then I certainly wouldn't have set it up that way knowingly. (I assume it isn't now that things are back to normal?). But you've given me further clarity on potentially using static IP address - and that they have to be outside the range of those the router may allocate. I actually get the impression that the various IP addresses don't actually change very much anyway over time? If I'm going to be more comfortable with this in the longer run, I think I do need to understand a bit more about networking. Aubuti - thanks for the snipping tool thing. I had tried the print screen button, but that hadn't worked... but now, I'm armed with a new tool! That said, I can't get it in here - does it need to get saved as a picture, then linked to this post? It might not matter at this stage, but could come in handy when I next come back with some numpty questions! I wish I knew what had caused it all in the first place though - as I said at the outset, I switched one player off, and minutes later tried to turn another one on with no joy.... but... main thing is it's working for now. Maybe a lease expiry like John's suggested. So, lots of thanks to all for helping out - I really do appreciate it. "It's only music" - but it seems to take on a surprising significance when it isn't working. I think this looks a lot better than it did a little while ago: -Logitech Media Server Version: 7.7.3 - 1375965195 @ Mon Aug 12 11:14:33 CUT 2013 Hostname: MacNeill-PB Server IP Address: 192.168.0.3 Server HTTP Port Number: 9000 Operating system: Windows 7 - EN - cp1252 Platform Architecture: 8664 Perl Version: 5.14.1 - MSWin32-x86-multi-thread Database Version: DBD::SQLite 1.34_01 (sqlite 3.7.7.1) Total Players Recognized: 6 Library Statistics Total Images: 64 Total Videos: 0 Total Tracks: 13,199 Total Albums: 1,594 Total Artists: 790 Total Genres: 97 Total Playing Time: 913:30:37 Player Information Information on all identified devices connected to Logitech Media Server Cellar squeezebox Player Model: Squeezebox Firmware: 40 Player IP Address: 192.168.0.15 Player MAC Address: 00:04:20:05:27:38 Downstairs Boom Player Model: Squeezebox Boom Firmware: 57 Player IP Address: 192.168.0.6 Player MAC Address: 00:04:20:1e:3e:fd Wireless Signal Strength: 99% Garage SB2 Player Model: Squeezebox Firmware: 40 Player IP Address: 192.168.0.14 Player MAC Address: 00:04:20:05:8d:d6 Kitchen Boom Player Model: Squeezebox Boom Firmware: 57 Player IP Address: 192.168.0.9 Player MAC Address: 00:04:20:1e:b7:07 Wireless Signal Strength: 53% SB3 #1 Player Model: Squeezebox Classic Firmware: 137 Player IP Address: 192.168.0.8 Player MAC Address: 00:04:20:12:67:26 Wireless Signal Strength: 70% Squeezebox Touch Player Model: Squeezebox Touch Firmware: 7.7.3-r16662 Player IP Address: 192.168.0.11 Player MAC Address: 00:04:20:22:ac:20- SB "user" since 2000... 2 x SB1 ; 2 x SB3 ; 2 x Boom ; 1 x Touch ; 1 x Controller Windows 7 and LMS Version: 7.7.3 - 1375965195 Next step... a Vortexbox? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ donmacn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36036 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100436 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
