Hi, 2009/12/30 0xdeadbeef <[email protected]>: > > l.pinguin;500299 Wrote: >> >> Well, I live in Europe (the Netherlands) and I use it daily for months >> now, and it has _never_ failed to wake me up, even with a power down >> while it was running on batteries. It is working perfectly stable. > Then you either have a (semi-)static IP (e.g. due to a cable ISP) or
It locally has a static IP in the house because it is behind a wireless router, and the IP address of the ISP has changed at least once... > you use the Radio in a way to work around the design flaws. It is standing besides the bed and it is always on. Frequently I unplug it from the power supply and make it run on batteries somewhere else. And no: I am not working around anything. > It is not questionable though that any kind of reconnect with changed > IP leaves the Radio in a erratic state where the alarm function is not > reliable. Not seen yet. > Indeed in the last weeks I established a workaround as well by forcing > the reconnect in the (very late) morning and setting back the Radio to a > normal state before I go to bed. Then again, even if this raises the > reliability in the 90% range, it is still not near 100% as my ISP > sometimes decides to do maintenance at night, the European MYSB server > freaks out again or my router decides to reboot for some reason. > > So again: the alarm is only reliable under perfect conditions and any > kind of reconnection during the night has obviously not been considered > by the software designers at all. In my case I see that it is working without problems, and that may be said too, instead of complaining that it is all bad... Remy _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
