I haven't been around lately because after a while I got everything working just fine and left it that way. I wasn't looking for an extended family when I bought my first Duet, but the darn thing almost drove me crazy for a while. And then I got into all the plug-ins and on and on. I ended up with a bunch of SB's right up to the Transporter and really love em all, but once I got it working, including the SBC as a player, then I quit the game. I was interested in the Radio because it was something I thought would be useful long before it came out. However I resisted because I was happy running on 7.3 and didn't want to ruin my care free experience.
Recently a friend expressed interest in the radio. He is not techinical at all and doesn't want to be. So I thought it might be a good time to try the Radio hooked up to a seperate server running the latest Squeeze Server software. The Radio seems to work fine after ones nights use (except the darn auto-brightness feature), but I would never reccommend it to anyone other than a techie or someone with time on their hands and no where to be in the morning when the alarm fails :-)(It is a stated feature and should work. The car analogy is very valid). For my purpose, it will be fine. I want something quick and easy to take outside that I don't have to plug in. Of course as it is I still have to plug it in because Logitech will never be any better at planning than they are at designing. They remind me of Nikon and anyone who shoots knows exactly what I'm saying. One surprise was statically addressing the Radio. I thought when the Boom came out that Logitech had actually learned a lesson from the SBR, but that isn't the case. Once again statically adddressing the device is a pain in the patooey for those of us who don't use DHCP. Thanks the gods for Christian Erpelding and his SqueezeConfig software that runs on my Droid. Makes things a bit easier. Logitech should be so helpful. So, all in all I guess Logitech sold one more Radio, but not two or three or however many people ask me about the little box sitting on my table outside playing it's little heart out. Or I may decide running two servers to be silly and send it back. Either way I guess I'll be watching this forum for a little while and then after everything works well again I'll go back in to my happy music listening bliss. -- Howard Passman Can I go home now? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Passman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16674 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78256 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
