Let me start by saying that I love the duet now that I have it working. The UI on the controller is quite snappy and I love the seamless integration of Pandora and Slacker - no explicitly connecting to squeezenetwork! I gave my wife a 30 sec. tour this morning and she's off and running with it. She just sent me email that she is now using it with the SB3 in the family room.
My only gripe is the setup of the controller. If Joe-Shmoe user had my experience, I think the box would have been returned. I have 2 SB3 already and am running SC 7.1 production. I ran into 2 issues - one minor, but the other was quite painful. Issue 1: Wireless configuration =============================== I followed the instructions and the setup does not follow the documented flow. Nor is the flow intuitive. I don't broadcast my SSID and I have WPA set up. It asked for my SSID and that was fine. But then it automatically went to connect. Of course it failed. My options on the menu were to try again or select another network. Trying again just blindly tried again. What about entering my WPA info?? Out of frustration, I go back a menu. THERE it has a menu for selecting your security type. I enter the info and all is well. Why not present that menu prior to attempting to connect? Or present it after a connection attempt fails? Or say "go back to enter info". Issue 2: Connecting to the server ================================= This was a bear. And I'm not sure how I made it work. After getting over the wireless hurdle, I set up the receiver. It shows up on the list, the lights do their dance, and all is well. Then it asks which server to connect to. My server shows up and I select it. Not matter what I did, the connection always failed!! The interesting part is that I could use the web browser and play music through the player!! So the player was set up correctly! So I read the manual in detail and didn't see any steps I missed. I did a factory reset, entered my info again and again (lots of spinning, clicking, but definitly no grooving!). I reboot my router and server. Still no joy. For kicks, I decide to attempt to connect to squeezenetwork rather than my local server. Now all of a sudden, it jumps to where it is updating the controller software. Then is asks for my user name and password. NOW I'm connected to my local server, NOT squeezenetwork. But I'm happy - it's working!! But I'm not 100% sure I could repeat the scenario. And given the 2 hours I spent on it, I'm not ready to do a factory reset and try again. Details of my setup: =================== Open SuSE 10.2 Squeezecenter 7.1 production release Linksys wrt54gs 1.1 running DD-WRT v24-SP1 2 SB3s Duet IPs assigned through static DHCP (all validated to be unique. Server checked that is was assigned the IP I think it should have.) Some questions: ============== I have a username/password setup on squeezecenter because I remote stream and have the port forwarded - does this present an issue? What does a user that just bought the controller do to to skip the receiver setup? Suposed I just wanted to use the controller with my existing SB3s? I wonder if the issue is that the stock FW that the controller had was really old and presented a problem. Is there a way to skip the scripted setup and just get into the controller settings? Conclusion: ========== I'm thrilled with the product. Both the controller and receiver feel solidly built. The controller is a joy to use - intuitive and very responsive. I was very frustrated with the controller configuration. I'm left wondering what I should/could have done differently to avoid that experience since others seem to have had NO problems at all. Thanks for reading. -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 1 duet. SuSE 10.2 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50848 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
