Beast Of Bodmin wrote: > For me, the SB3 is a pinnacle of design, both in terms of how it looks, > but in terms of the functionality and the musical fidelity. I haven't > been able to find something that can replace it in the same price range. > I could never bring myself to cough up for a Transporter. The DAC is > very good for the money. > > I have wandered off into Raspberry Pi territory, imagining a basic Pi > with a suitable DAC with phono, or possibly digital fibre output, but I > could never decide on one implementation or the other. > > Another summary of my situation: > > SB3 with no Wifi and no remote control, but a working ethernet > connection. > > It has a fixed IP of 192.168.2.10. > > No way to perform a factory reset. > > I already have a Pi acting as a Kodi box, running LibreElec, which is > configured to use WiFi to talk to my iMac to get stuff to play. The iMac > also runs LMS. > > There are Kodi plugins to have the Pi act as either a LMS or squeezebox > web controller. > > I did manage to connect the Pi to the SB3's ethernet port, but because > of the way LibreElec works, if it detects a connected ethernet port, it > will try to use that and doesn't time out to fall back on the WiFi > interface. This makes reboots more complicated than they need to be. I > suppose I could ask the LibreElec devs to consider implementing another > feature, or I could use another OS variant for the OS that does support > this. In general, I think Kodi sucks as a user interface, so I don't > want to have to mess around finding another implementation of Kodi that > will do as I want. > > I haven't worked out how to configure my home internet DSL modem to pick > up 192.168.2.0 and route the data (maybe I should contact their > support). I also haven't worked out how to get this modem to play > nicely with my Netgear WNDR3700s (v1 and v4), running dd-wrt, to act as > WiFi repeaters for the modem (I can do it via an ethernet cable, but > that is not useful to me at the moment). > > Even if I got all that to work, it seems ridiculous to have to do all > that in the first place, just because I can't change the configured IP > address on the SB3. > > And I really like my SB3.Have a look at this thread. It might help. https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=654956
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