lindsayanng;501962 Wrote: > So you are saying that if I wire my computer to the to modem the > wireless radio willconnect to the computer through the wifi connection > and when the alarm is ready to go off, it will send a wakeup packet to > the computer through the router and wake up the computer and launch the > server software? > > That sounds pretty good stuff!!
I don't think this is the case. In any case the server (local squeezeboxserver or mysqueezebox.com) triggers the alarm. So if the server (again local server or MySB.com) is off (or there are network problems between the server and the radio), it won't trigger an alarm and the wanted stream won't play. The radio has a fallback mechanism though (it remembers the first alarm configured) and will play a backup sound. This functionality isn't reliable currently (see bug report http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14870) thats why some people advise to use a local server which runs 24/7. A local server most of the time will be more reliable than mysqueezebox.com because: 1) mysqueezebox.com has been unreliable recently due to too much customers bying a radio :) ... european customers are affected very much by this but also over in US you (rarely) read that there are problems with the reliability of MySB.com. 2) the radio seems to have a problem with switching (router-) IPs. It has nothing todo with your local 192.168.x.x IP - if your router gets assigned a new internet adress problems (might) start. Sounds strange - is strange ! I suggest you just test this yourself. If the alarm works reliable for you when connected with mysqueezebox.com then be happy. You don't need a local server then. If it doesn't you still have the option to install your own 24/7 local squeezebox server. Now to the WOL thing. To my knowledge there isn't a WOL package sent to the server right before the alarm, so it won't wake up. But there IS a special plugin (http://code.google.com/p/srvrpowerctrl/) for the squeezeboxserver which can make your computer go to sleep and also takes responsibility to set a wake up time right before the alarm time (so the server is running at the alarm time and can trigger the alarm to the radio). But this is all advanced stuff, I wouldn't start fiddling with it in the beginning. -- bluegaspode 1x SB-Controller+Receiver (Duet), 1xSB-Boom. 1xSB-Radio Server (7.4.1) running on SheevaPlug (Ubuntu) with attached Western Digital MyBook Essential. Secondary 7.4 Server on Debianized Buffalo Linkstation LS-CHL. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bluegaspode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73246 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
