dean blackketter;263010 Wrote: > On Jan 27, 2008, at 12:15 AM, pichonCalavera wrote: > > Hi, I've been wondering, the SBR will need the SBC for initial > > setup at > > least for now, but since everything in the SBC is controlled by the > > Jive software arquitecture a.k.a. SqueezeOS, I guess one could run > the > > Jive software arquitecture on a PC and setup the Receiver from > there, > > isn't it? > It's a good thought, but it's a little more complicated than that. > > When SBR is in setup mode it advertises a temporary ad-hoc network. > The code in SBC sets scans for that network, then temporarily > associates with it, then sends over the configuration information. > > The desktop version of the SBC software would need to be modified to > manage the PCs wireless network (hard on windows and mac, probably > easier on Linux) OR it could be modified to accept wireless settings > without any wireless config and send them to an ethernet connected > SBR. > > Robin Bowes has been working on a SC plugin to do the latter. You > plug your SBR into ethernet, fill out a form in the SC web interface > and click to configure the SBR. About as complicated as setting up a > > wireless router from a web UI. This likely won't be an officially > supported (as in "tech support, how can I help you?") setup mode, but > > it should work just fine.
I am happy to hear that someone is developing this wired setup capability as I will certainly use it. My plans mean that I only need one SBC and three or four SBRs. I plan on keeping my SBC under strict physical control other wise it will be "lost" due to three teenagers, a ten year old and a wife that can lose things she didn't know she had. -- Kiwi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kiwi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2169 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42570 _______________________________________________ jive mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jive
