simlu wrote: > Hi Guys, > > First of all I'd like to share with you my disappointment with the UE > Smart Radio. Shame on me I didn't read enough before buying. I was sure > this little music box would be better than it's predecessor but it's > quite the opposite. A lot of cool features have been removed and the one > I wanted the most with the UE Smart Radio wasn't there: playing music > locally using my Synology NAS. > > I decided to downgrade the firmware to baby 7.7.2 (r9663), thanks to > some useful posts I found on this forum. So far, I've encountered no > issues at all. Here's the information of my UE: >
simlu - I owe you a cold one! This is awesome! Kudos, mad props, etc for taking the time and effort to figure it out. I think I'm pretty smart sometimes then I find posts like this and I know that I'm not worthy! A bit of background. I too have been building up my "poor-man's sonos" with SBR's around the house. My most recent one purchased started failing to hold it's wifi connection while all the others in the house could. After much troubleshooting, I called it in for an RMA. They told me they'd send me a white one, as that's all they had in stock. Wasn't my choice of replacement for a black one, but "ok fine send it." Next tech support email was "sorry - all out - how about a UE Smart Radio instead." Being that was my only option, what could I say. The plan was to sell it on ebay and find another SBR instead, which are going up in price if you haven't noticed. Wasn't looking fwd to that, but I was invested already and couldn't back out now. Then I came across this post and now I have an SBR in UESR clothing! That was so easy to do over a cup of coffee. <rant> When I had to first connect the UESR to my wifi, I had to roll through my crazy long wifi encryption pswd?! Uhm, why no push button (PBC) method? Is that seriously supposed to be another enhancement to make it easier for users? After I did the "downgrade" and reset, the PBC option was right there and - click click connected. What are they thinking over there? Would it have been too hard to support the old firmware? Maybe offer a novice and geek mode. Or at least allow users the chance to choose the firmware they want, even if the old version is labeled as unsupported on the UESR. And wasn't there someone on the beginning of the thread who was told by tech support that it was impossible due to new hardware?! What a boatload of crap they're serving. What's the new hardware? The black preset buttons?! Ironically, that's the only real thing of value in the new radio, IMO. </rant> So people - have no fear - your SBR is still here! Thanks again to simlu! :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ xsqueezeme's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58901 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97331 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
