mobileadam;495346 Wrote: 
> 
> I'm running SC 7.4.1 and iPeng 1.2.1 on a 3G S over WiFi. I find that
> if I use iPeng and either let my iPhone lock or I choose to put it in to
> sleep mode then when unlocking (iPeng automatically appears) it won't
> respond to my commands even if I wait a bit for the WiFi to reconnect.
> If I then quickly put the phone back into sleep and unlock I find the
> iPeng has updated the Now Playing screen and I can control my
> Squeezeboxes. 
> 
> Is this expected behaviour? I don't have the preserve connection
> enabled, should I? does this keep WiFi alive on the iPhone?
> 

Adam,

iPhone will shut down WiFi after a while when the screen locks. It can
then take a few seconds until the connection is re-established but then
iPeng should work fine.
An exception is if your server's IP address changed while the device is
in sleep mode and also I did have some similar reports in the past, but
we were never able to reproduce this. Do you _always_ get this and does
control never come back?
You can see whether WiFi is on through the "WiFi" icon on the iPhone
status bar.
One more thing is: this can indeed take a bit longer on iPhone because
iPhone doesn't completely lose the connection (3G stays on) so iPeng may
take a bit longer to find out that now it can indeed use WiFi again.

You are correct, "Preserve connection" will keep WiFi enabled. This
costs battery life (around 12-15h with iPeng running) but will give
immediate control when it comes back.

Plus, this way you can use the volume keys to control the volume on the
currently selected Squeezebox (or group) while the screen is still
locked.


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