danco wrote: > I've just moved home, which is somewhat fun, but I've been in chaos for > more than a week. > > In the old place I had my Squeezebox Radio connected to mains power, > occasionally turned on but very rarely. > > After my move I am just ready to play with it and get it working. But > when I tried to turn it on (without connecting to the mains) it just > said "Battery low. Please charge me". So I connected it to the mains, > after I found the charger, but kept getting the same message. > > What was stranger is that it then turned off (not a surprise in itself > if the battery was low) and then spontaneously restarted. It kept doing > that, and I couldn't get it to switch off. > > Just at the moment it is not giving that message but every few seconds > (I've not timed it) the Logitech logo flashes and that's all. > > I'm going to keep it plugged in overnight and see if anything improves. > And when I have a bit of time I might try removing the battery and > seeing what happens if I try to run it only on mains power.
Its possible the charger has failed, have you tested it ? Switch mode PSU's often fail on powerup after non use And the cycling is due to the battery running out, recovering (self recovery) and then discharging again (Help out by battery management circuitry I expect) Jeff *Players:* SliMP3,Squeezebox3 x3,Receiver,SqueezeLite-X,PiCorePlayer x3 *Server:* LMS Version: Latest Nightly on Centos 8.0 VM on ESXi 6.5.0U3 on Dell T320 *Plugins:* AutoRescan/BBCiPlayer/PowerSave/PowerSwitchIII/Squeezecloud/Spotty/Player Groups *Remotes:* iPeng9/Orangesqueeze/PC/Jivelite/SqueezeLite-X *Music:* 522GB,1.5K albums with 25K songs by 5K artists mostly FLACs *Want a webapp ?* See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?104305-Webapp-for-LMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff07971's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=49290 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111753 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
