donmacn wrote: > i appreciate the logic of switching players certainly, but I'm not sure > if what comes next supports the 'move it and check' argument, or my 'try > not to disturb then in case they take the huff' one... > > came to bed tonight, thought I'd listen to some Radio Paradise. Using > Squeezepad, I went to turn on the Touch in the bedroom, which has been > stable for weeks or even months, and which I used just this morning when > getting ready for work, and....... it's not showing as an option. OK. > Try to turn it on manually, and it's doing the same thing as the > 'downstairs' one I started this thread about. First of all it's sticky > finding the network, then it defaults to MSB.com and can't see the > vortexbox. To the best of my knowledge nothing has happened today while > I've been out of the house. > > Also, another two very stable Touches have disappeared from the > Squeezeplay list of players - while two classics and two booms remain > listed!! > > Surely this can't just be a wifi/connectivity issue? There has to be > something else 'tripping' that's causing this flaky behaviour? Why just > the Touches? > > It's too late to start running around the house rebooting the vortexbox > and the router, and I'm unlikely to get the time until the weekend, but > should I need to? Is this sort of thing really what everyone else is > putting up with? Seems I might need to dust off the old CD player > again... > > This isn't really meant to be a rant or a whinge, just a little > frustration that I just can't seem to get to the bottom of why the SP > infrastructure can be so intermittently problematic. > > Any suggestions gratefully received.:) > > Ta > > Donald
You shouldn't *need* to do any of this. I have a transporter, touch, radio, Boom all connected back to a Vortexbox server. I control with a CONTROLLER, Squeezepad, iPeng, and squeezeplay running on win7 laptop. I can go months and months without so much as a reboot of the vortexbox. And all players show up as connected, etc. This is true even if I have a power outage (server is on UBS, so it stays on during brief power outage). Players reconnect almost immediately. Your problems sound network related to me. And diagnosing network problems requires some testing, with and without, moving things around, wiring things temporarily, etc. Just because you haven't changed anything on your network, doesn't mean your neighbor hasn't installed a new router, baby monitor, electric fence, special lightbulb, etc. Heck one poster here had an ongoing problem that eventually tied back to a relatively new refrigerator causing wifi interference. I have no idea about your particular issue, but I can say that in 90%+ cases like yours I've seen discussed here over the years, the local network was ultimately the culprit and not the players, the firmware, etc. And 90% of the time the poster was sure that it couldn't possibly be the network. I can also say that a year or so ago I was having some odd intermittent connection problems and replaced the router and problems were resolved immediately. Routers, switches, cables, etc. can go from working perfectly to not working in a moment without any obvious cause. Anyhow, this is a long way of saying that systematic testing to determine what part of the chain is working/not working is key to diagnosing things. And it's not magic (i.e., don't worry about the ghosts of squeezeboxes working against you if you dare unplug something). These things should be robust when working properly. At my weekend place I turn off everything and unplug when leaving. Upon return, I plug in modem/router, plug in vortexbox and turn on, turn on power to squeezeboxes, and all turns on and reconnects automatically, players remain synched (if synched before), etc. After simply plugging everything in, it all returns to full working state without any intervention from me (whether one week or one month has passed). p.s. Regarding your latest issue. Be a bit careful....I've been looking at my squeezepad and thought that I'd lost all my players, etc. Turns out that I had the iPad on 3G instead of WIFI. And not being on WIFI, squeezepad and iPeng work, but can't see the local network, so don't see the vortexbox LMS server or the players connected to it. But can see mysb.com. I've started testing things, etc. only to eventually realize that 'duh' I didn't have ipad or iphone on WIFI. *Location 1:* VortexBox 4TB (2.2) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Location 2:* VBA 3TB (2.2) > LMS 7.8 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.8 > Squeezelite *Spares:* VBA 4TB, SB3, Touch (3), Radio (3), CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone4S & iPad2 (iPeng7 & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Tagging - mp3tag, Streaming - Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101601 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
