iPhone;550598 Wrote: > Not stirring the pot to much but lets get real. The SB Radio's main > feature *-IS NOT-* that it is an alarm clock! Its called an SB Radio. > Not an SB Radio Alarm Clock much less an SB Alarm Clock. > I've had the same thoughts as you earlier but I have to say that I've changed my mind a bit. The physical size and advertising clearly results in that many people are going to use the Radio in the bedroom and when used in the bedroom a reliable alarm is maybe the most important feature.
However, I think the most critical bug is MySB reliability and the randomly stopped audio streams when using MySB. Hopefully that part should be soon solved according to Alan's status report in bugzilla. iPhone;550598 Wrote: > > The Squeezebox was designed to work best when using a PC/Server running > SBS. Will it 'work' without one logged into mysb.com, sure it will. Will > using mysb.com ever be as reliable as running a dedicated SBS machine > (PC, Server, NAS, SheevaPlug, Laptop), never, not even if every bug and > complaint were fixed tomorrow. > You are correct that it works better with a local PC/server but I really believe Logitech has designed it to work better with MySB.com. One example is that during the beta tests we had a lot of discussions regarding the initial setup process and it was very clear that Logitech wanted it to be optimized for users without a local PC/server with the result that it doesn't work as good as it could for people with a local server. Logitech is very dedicated to make sure MySB works, in many cases I think it's a lot more important for them than making sure your local server works. However, at the moment it's clear that they have failed in their intentions regarding this because at the moment it works better with a local server. iPhone;550598 Wrote: > > For again, there are other people and technologies involved that are > nowhere near fault proof. There is the Internet connection (all of > them, not just your home one), the mysb.com servers, ones modem, ones > network, and everything else. So look at what is really involved and > stop calling a Squeezebox on mysb.com an alarm clock for it is NOT! To > many things can go wrong to cause an alarm not to sound. > That's not the fault of MySB, it's the alarm functionality that's designed incorrectly mainly due to inheritance from the older Squeezebox products. It would be possible to make the alarm functionality less dependent on MySB or even not dependent on a server/MySB at all, it's just a matter of changing the alarm handling logic. iPhone;550598 Wrote: > > And nobody give me that Energy/Environmentalist crap about leaving a > Mac Mini/DIY Atom/Fit-PC2 on all the time when it uses only 6 to 23 > watts (SheevaPlug 3W). All your TVs are plugged in, the picture might > be off, but its sucking down electricity when you think its off or it > wouldn't come on instantly when you press On. I'll bet most of you have > Central Heat/AC too. As well as other things that run 24/7 that one > never even thinks about. We really should not critique people that wants to care for our planet, every watt counts even though some things might be pretty small when you look at the big picture. However, you are right that there are a lot of better solutions than running a 100W server 24/7. A DIY server or a sheevaplug works really good if you are able to set it up but for some people it's too advanced. I suspect a Vortexbox appliance might be the best solution for people that want something that just works and is easy to setup but that will make it a bit more expensive. I understand that some people don't want to spend additionally $300-400 to make their $199 fancy alarm clock to work reliably. $99 for a sheevaplug might be acceptable but it's too advanced to setup for some people. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78256 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
