I've spent 14 hours over the last two days trying to get this system to work. I can't begin to explain the amount of inconsistent behavior I've experienced. I'm going to describe the latest steps I documented over the last hour and really appreciate any constructive advice.
I've just built a new home and wired it with Cat-5 throughout for distributed audio (with Sonos in mind but I went with the cheaper Squeezebox system). I do not have an internet connection at my new home yet. I want to use Ethernet, not wireless, for fastest performance. I have a D-Link broadband router to which all the cables are wired. I had an Apple Airport Express wireless router but unplugged it because its firewall cannot be disabled. The Squeezebox system gave me many fits without a wireless router so I went and bought a new wireless router and disabled the firewall. I disabled the Windows Vista firewall and installed SqueezeCenter. I enabled all traffic on the D-Link firewall. In summmary, no firewalls. I purchased one Duet and three additional receivers. Here's my most recent experience attempting to connect one, then the second receiver. Starting with receiver #1, I was eventually able to get it setup using the controller. It's set up via the 'Ethernet' connection option. My PC running SqueezeCenter can see the receiver. I imported all my music into SqueezeCenter previously. The controller does only shows these options on the home screen: READ ME, Now Playing, Extras and Settings. My music is nowhere to be found. If I go to SqueezeCenter on my PC, I can select a playlist and choose Play. The music begins to play on my SqueezeBox receiver. Eventually the controller catches up and shows the current song playing. I can use the pause and advance buttons on the controller. But I can't view any songs, artists, playlists etc. on the controller. Now I move to reciever #2. It too is hard-wired. I have a strong wireless connection on my controller and I'm right in front of the receiver. I choose Settings, Controller Settings, Advanced, Set up Squeezebox". I reset the receiver and get the red flash. Nothing comes up on the controller after minutes. So I unpower the receiver and re-power. It flashes red. Suddenly the controller displays both of my receiver IDs under "Setup Squeezebox", whereas before the re-power of receiver #2 none displayed. I run back to receiver #1 and it's stopped playing music and the light is blue. The controller still indicates that receiver #1 is playing music. Wrong! I proceed to set up receiver #2 now that the controller can see it. I select the receiver and it states "Connecting to " my wireless network. This time I'm not given an option to choose Ethernet or wireless. Why not? After a few minutes I get the failure to connect message and the light turns amber. The controller states "Problems Connecting. Couldn't connect your squeezebox to your wireless network. Make sure it is within range of your wireless network (Lost Network)." My receiver is hard-wired. It's also in strong range of the wireless router. I go to my wireless router, which has a digital display, and can see that receiver #2 is connected to the wireless router and has been assigned an IP address. Uggh! So I head back to receiver #1 which stopped working. On the controller I go back to the setup Squeezebox menu and pick this controller. This time it doesn't ask me to pick Ethernet/wireless and doesn't search for a network. It instantly jumps to "Choose Music Source". The only choice this time is SqueezeNetwork. My PC music source has disappeared. I check my router and see that this time receiver #1 has connected using wireless, whereas the first time I has the opportunity to choose Ethernet and it had connected via Ethernet. Uggh! Now I press the home button on the controller. The controller hangs for a minute and then reboots. It then says "Choose player". None are listed. The only option listed is "Set Up Squeezebox". Uggh! I'm a senior software engineer with networking experience. I've spent 14 hours with this system. I can't imagine the average consumer not returning this product immediately. Unfortunately I'm too stubborn to give up, so I ask for your help. #1 Does the fact that I have no Internet connection but do have a working Lan prevent a successful configuration? #2 Why is the product so stubborn about using wireless when an Ethernet cable is attached? Even the controller wording tells you to get within reach of a wireless network when an ethernet connection attempt fails. Why on some setup attempts do I not get the option to specify an Ethernet connection? Receiver #2 insists on connecting via wireless and fails. #3 What would cause it to fail to connect via wireless? #4 Why does receiver #2 refuse to connect to the network? It's on the same physical wired LAN as #1 and the router and the PC. #5 One the one occasion when I did get receiver #1 working, why does the controller not list any of my music? The music is fully visible within my PC's SqueezeCenter software, and I can initiate playing music on the receiver from my PC. And I can use the controller to pause and advance to the next song. That suggests to me that a firewall is not in the way (plus I disabled all firewalls). #6 Why does receiver #1 get dropped by the controller and I have to set up the receiver again? 3/4 of the times I've tried it fails, then magically it works. #7 Why did receiver #1 stop working and become invisible to the controller and to my PC after I unpowered and re-powered receiver #2? I appreciate any help. -- doggieflyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ doggieflyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18462 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49358 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
