Cheers, Did not figure I would get an "ouch" as reply - I am just trying to communicate my findings/experiences, not be rude (sorry)...:
Using previous versions of Slimserver and firmware #16 on my SB2 everything was working as previously described - WOL, server staying awake while SB2 powered on, server going into hibernation 5 min.s after SB2 powered off (and by "powered off" I mean that it still displayed the default time screen saver). Upgrading to 6.2 and new firmware version (was it 26?), this stopped - I remember coming home from work the day after a late-night upgrade of the slimserver&firmware (meaning I did not test very thouroughly, just that it still played my ripped CDs and my netradio), my wife was listening to music but the SB2's display was blank (as in "server not present"). I asked her what was going on, and she said "it just plays radio by itself now"?! When pressing the power button it wakes up the server, but after the 5 min.s the server shuts down again. I then tried: 1) Returning to the previous version of Slimserver (I always do a backup of the entire Slimserver installation before upgrading) with the new firmware, to no avail. 2) Returning to the previous version of Slimserver (I always do a backup of the entire Slimserver installation before upgrading) with the old firmware, problem solved 3) Returning to the new Slimserver version but still using the previous firmware version, problem solved Maybe it is some other stuff in the firmware that is actually causing the missing "keep server alive while powered on" functionality, but I believe that it is the missing traffic resulting from local (SB2) WMA decoding. I may just have to change my theses to: Due to the much lower level of activity the server is shutting down (I have yet to install a network monitor on the machine, but maybe I should do that - could be interesting ;-). I still find it interesting that it is able to continue streaming the WMA even after the server has shut down if that much traffic is going on - I have even considered removing the default gateway info from the SB2 to see if that forces it to go through the server in some way, but I doubt that it will solve the problem. Maybe I am just lucky that I have a very old PC that does not wake and then shuts down as stated in the MS knowledgebase article (I believe it is so, since I do not have the "power management" tab for the NIC)? Maybe I could just stay on firmware #16, but in the long run new versions of slimserver may require firmware update of the device, meaning that I am also stuck on the slimserver version?! Or maybe, just maybe, we (me, you, somebody) finds a small, elegang fix (which as far as I can see must be implemented into the firmware, since having the server keeping itself alive is not a viable option in my book - seems too much like it will never shut down, then....) Hm - may I never get so far that I wish I was still stuck with my +600 CDs and my old FM radio :-) Best regards, -- getprogs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ getprogs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=753 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17891 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
