Swords wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a UE Smartradio that I recently converted to run on Squeezebox. > The radio has a bit of history in that after a few months of owenrship > it started to exhibit strange behaviour. It would switch itself on very > early in the morning even though there was no alarm set, and tuned to a > German radio station. All my favourites were repeatedly replaced with a > bunch of German stations and my presets would constantly be > reprogrammed. It would also occasionally become unresponsive or would > exhibit pulsing volume until powered off and rebooted. > > I figured that there may have been an issue like a duplicate MAC address > and some poor lad in Germany was having the same issues. > > Several factory resets didn't resolve anything so I put it away for a > few months. I took it down and tried again and it seemed to be ok. It > was still a bit flaky in that 2 out of 3 times on powering on it > wouldn't connect to my WiFi without either running Network Repair or > manually reconnecting to the network. But it was manageable and it was > fine for several months. > > After several days last week with the UESmartradio server down I > eventually managed to connect and switch to Squeezebox. Upon registering > it told me that this device is registered to an email address, a German > one no doubt, so alarm bells started ringing, but I registered my own > account to it. But it behaved fine for a couple of days, apart from the > on screen display changing to German once or twice. > > But today all hell has broken loose. I guess my German friend is using > his radio today. My favourites were all German stations, as to were my > presets. It was almost comical, I'd switch to one of my stations, the > radio would switch to a German one pretty much straight away. I'd switch > back, it would switch again, and so on. Then I had the pulsing volume > issue. > > Tried a factory reset and reinstalling the latest software, seemed to be > ok for a while but still the occasional odd behaviour. At the moment > it's at its most stable it has been all day, I guess because the German > guy threw his radio out the window and under a bus, or something. I > still get my radio and Spotify streams randomly pausing and stopping. > > I guess the reason why mine was ok for so long before switching to > Squeezebox was because the German radio was converted to Squeezebox > while mine was still a Smartradio, so no conflicts. But now that we're > both on Squeezebox is seems like I'm back to square one all over again. > > Anyone any suggestions as to what's happening, if they saw this > behaviour before, and any potential solutions ?
The other user may not even be using a physical squeezebox device! There are software versions of squeezebox which use mac addresses - I guess that's why your original device mac address is being 'spoofed' by someone else unintentionally. A solution? Guess you'll have to turn to customer support to sort this out - unless a Logi person here can help you directly. Good luck Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 speakers Logitech Radio Logitech UE Smart Radio Raspberry Pi + Squeezeplug LMS + Squeezelite - Logitech Mini Boombox speaker (mothballed) Cubieboard + Debian 7 + LMS 7.8.1 + Squeezelite - Soundwave SW100 bluetooth speaker O2 Joggler + SqpOS + Aune X2 T-amp + Mordaunt Short ms-3.40 speakers IBOX + Debian 7 + LMS 7.8.1 + Squeezelite - Soundwave SW100 bluetooth speaker Squeeze2upnp - Sonos Play1 & Vistron internet radio (Reciva) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103113 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
