Hi all, Just got my beta Duet - many thanks!
Mixed success, however: the biggest problem is that the SBC doesn't connect to my wireless network. It detects my network fine, and (after I've entered the key) tries to connect. Eventually it fails and gives me the "Connection Problems" menu. I can see the SBC's MAC address on my router's list of associated devices - so it's trying at least. It feels like I've just got the WEP key wrong, but I've tried entering it several times. Router is a Zyxel Prestige 660HW-61 running 802.11g with 128-bit WEP. The router has given me some problems recently so it may be a router problem, but everything else seems to connect ok at the moment. At least I'm in a position to provide really, really, excellent feedback about the network-setup screens on the SBC :) - When it first scanned for wireless networks, it found a couple of neighbours networks a few seconds before it found mine. However the "please wait" screen (with the animated circle) disappeared as soon as it found the first, leaving me confused for a few seconds. A "still scanning" indicator might save a frown or two. - When entering the wireless key, the instructions say "Press center button twice to finish" - that doesn't work, the cursor just advances two places. - When entering the key, the vertical bar (with 0-9A-F on it to choose from) overlaps the screen title bar by a pixel. - The 'magnified' number 8 looks horrible. Other comments about the SBC: - The wheel feels much more stable than on the earlier model, where it felt a bit loose. - The four buttons around the scrollwheel are not quite centered in the recess, it's pushed right down to the bottom. I've since noticed something similar (though not as obvious) with the older model. So.... no go on the SBC. I've got the SBR configured using the older remote, and it seems to work a treat; has been playing for about an hour now. The multi-coloured button on the front looks very pretty indeed towards the end of the setup process. Just how many colours does it flash? Using the old SBC, which used to work ok, I'm getting some problems. I've actually had some of these for a few days already, but I'd put that down to letting the SBC firmware get a few days ahead of the server. I've updated both today. - When I first turned it on to configure the SBR, I thought I'd update the firmware before doing anything else. The relevant menu option found firmware available on the network, but downloading it failed. - I selected to set up a player, and my SBR appeared in the list. The set up process went perfectly, and I've been able to control the SBR through the web interface. - I was then able to update the SBR firmware. - The (old) SBC now seems just generally unreliable. Often, on startup, it fails to connect to the Squeezebox (it did this immediately after the firmware update, and it's doing it again now). When it does connect, I experience hangs when navigating into Artists/Albums etc. from the Music Library screen. It's currently not connecting, and the choose player screen is blank. I guess this sort of thing could be a network problem again. Final things: - After setting up the SBR, the message in the web interface (saying Squeezebox not found) seemed to disappear automatically. However it didn't automatically 'select' the SB, I had to manually select it from the drop-down menu. - I had connected the SBR using wired ethernet, thinking that perhaps the setup process would detect both the wired and wireless portion of my network and that it would use the wire. I don't think this happened (at least, I pulled the ethernet cable and it's kept working since) - presumably, if I could get either SBC to work, I'd be able to configure that from the SBC. I'm going to leave my router switched off overnight (which seems to solve some of the problems I've had with it recently) and we'll see if the SBC's behave better tomorrow. In case it's useful, this is with SC 17350; player firmware 22. 'Old' SBC reports 7.0r1853, I can't get the sw version of the 'new' one. Thanks! Ian -- iwp http://www.last.fm/user/iwp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iwp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=409 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43243 _______________________________________________ jive mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jive
