coyrls;627714 Wrote: > Im hoping that somebody can help me with a problem Im having. I had > SvrPowerControl set up and running well. However I started having > problems I think after a 7.5.3 firmware upgrade to my Touch. Now when > I hibernate my server using SvrPowerControl the touch turns on about a > minute or so later with the message Problem Connecting and gives me > the choice of trying again, trying a different library or going to the > home page. As it displays the message, it sends a magic packet which > wakes up my server and when the SBS server is running the message > disappears. I can also reproduce the problem if I power off my Touch > and manually hibernate my server. > > As you can imagine, this behaviour means that I cant hibernate my > server. I get the same message if I power off my server with > SvrPowerControl but my server is not setup to wake on LAN after being > shutdown. If I chose the option of going to the home page and power off > my Touch after a server shutdown, the message does not reappear. > > I originally had this problem with an old version of SvrPowerControl > (supplied with vortexbox) but have now updated to the latest beta > version and still have the same problem. Im not keen to use the > option of switching to mysqueezebox on hibernate or shutdown which may > fix the problem (I havent tested it yet), after the recent problems > with different versions of the server software causing > upgrade/downgrade issues when switching. I would like to get it back > to working as it did before. Any suggestions, please? This is a well known Touch/SqueezePlay problem and doesn't have anything to do with SrvrPowerCtrl and it is precisely the problem that SrvrPowerCtrl's "Suspend t mysb.com" feature is designed to address. I've been seeing this problem ever since the 7.4x versions of SqueezePlay on the Touch and the Squeezebox Controller were released back in the Fall of 2009. Logitech apparently feels that there is nothing to be gained by encouraging users to sleep or suspend their servers when they aren't in use. Perhaps they feel that this will just increase support requests. But for whatever reason, Logitech's development effort to make the SqueezeBox line work and play well with aggressive energy saving servers pretty much dried up with the transition from SqueezeCenter to SqueezeboxServer.
My suggestion is that you use the 'Suspend to www.mysqueezebox.com' feature in SrvrPowerCtrl rather than just 'suspend'. That will keep the Touch happy and keep it from prematurely WOLing your server. You can also adjust SrvrPowerCtrl's settings to automatically fetch the touch back from mysb.com on server wakeup. If you'd rather not connect the Touch to mysb.com, then I'd suggest buying a cheap SD card and installing it on your Touch. That will have the effect of enabling "tinysc", the embedded Squeezeboxserver on the Touch. You can then configure SrvrPowerCtrl to send the Touch to "itself". Again, the Touch will remain happy and won't WOL your sleeping server. And again, SrvrPowerCtrl on your SBS server can be configured to automatically fetch the Touch back from "itself" on wake up. The only downside to this arrangement is that it makes it more difficult to wake the SBS server from the Touch. If that is a problem, then what I would unhesitatingly recommend is this: go out and purchase the cheapest Apple iPod Touch from eBay or wherever that you can find. Then purchase iPeng. iPeng can be relied on to WOL your server whenever you pull it up on the iPod Touch. When the server wakes up, then SrvrPowerCtrl can be relied on to fetch the Touch back from mysb.com or from tinysc. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521
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