Thank you both! DrMatt's idea was along similar lines I was being hounded to try out. I started on your plan but first found getting just one more mains plug in the area was an issue - honestly! Then I tried adding my own older router to the network with it's own WiFi channel and Beacon ID. It didn't work because I was thinking of a dedicated Wifi link for the Duet, instead of switching off the VF Wifi completely and attaching all devices to the older router and using the VF as a modem only as you suggested. Doh!
Meanwhile W3Wilkes input got me thinking and set me off to check the tiny details of setting up. Both these approaches led me. albeit circuitously, to a solution. Here's the outline: 1) I have no idea why the Duet receiver would not connect to the VF router initially. I brained myself, not to mention broke my heart, over several days of trying. Eventually in desperation I did a full reset on the Duet receiver. That didn't help, in fact it made the problem worse insofar as initially I could get album details and track listings on the controller, but after the reset, nothing. Still, a reset is irreversible so I was stuck with it. 2) After countless countless attemps to get it to work I made a bizarre observation. a) the VF router is inexplicably designed to make all of it's controlls inaccessible if it goes offline. So, if you lose an internet connection you can't configure any aspect of it, including it's local WiFi, until it gets itself online again. b) - astonishingly, the act of switching on the controller knocks the VF router offline. I sh*t you not. Approximately 7 seconds after the handset plays it's little sign on melody, the VF drops the internet and it takes at least 5 minutes to return. So tuck that in your back pocket for a moment and I'll return to it in a moment. 3) I found that waiting until the internet came back online and the VF hub was paying attention again before I proceeded, when I go to the Choose a Player menu on the controller, instead of just picking the one choice (I only have one player), I instead pressed and held the button several seconds, a new dialogue appeared asking me for an IP address for the player. THis had been blown away by the reset, so I re-specified it. Then it connected properly and voila - music is played! However, there are two conditionals here. If I try to use the Duet handset, a) I lose the internet for 5 minutes or more and b) the icon in the handset's lower right corner flashes in very rapid succession between the white wifi symbol and the orange symbol. In fact it strobes, like it's trying alternative connection technologies and failing and flipping between the two. My solution? - I use the 'Squeezer' controller app on my Android phone. It doesn't break my internet and it's interface doesn't go bananas when I use it. Sad not to be able to use the controller, but the main thing is I have music in my life again! Thank you!! Rocketman -Rocketman, Rocketman2- and now -Rocketman3- too. [N.B. the forum doesn't recognises my old passwords nor sends me a reset so I have to create new accounts periodically] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rocketman3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=55456 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108730 _______________________________________________ Duet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/duet
