P Nelson wrote: > I sense in reading the Community build forum is that the Wifi > interference problem did not impact very many people, so there was > limited interest to including it in the community firmware. I would > like to see wlanpoke as an applet or installed via the plug in process. > If I had the skills I would contact POMdev to see he or she is okay with > developing a applet/plugin. Perhaps POMdev is looking for some > assistance; POMDev if yes, please let the community know, perhaps > someone will offer assistance. As the price of mess networks drop, > this is a problem that will increase over time. > > I have not found the time to follow the simplified instructions. I must > admit, I find the idea of logging into the SBRadio and executing > commands intimidating. I fear I will mess it up and brick the radio. > > Paul
Paul, I was more worried about possible security issues, but in his posts about wlanpoke it was obvious that POMdev knew what he was talking about and that some very key people in the Squeezebox world had examined the fix. For that reason I felt comfortable giving it a try. The possibility of bricking my Radios never occurred to me. As you probably know already, wlanpoke doesn't replace the firmware or anything like that--it just adds a script to check the Wi-Fi connection frequently and reset it when necessary. My Radios had already pretty much become clock-bricks in any case! Every once it a while I would reboot them and play a little music on them for old times' sake, but they would soon go silent and need to be rebooted again. Now they all just work whenever I want to use them, and I haven't seen the dreaded red Wi-Fi icon since I started this thread. POMdev, can you comment on any risk of "bricking" a Radio in the process of installing wlanpoke? Also, can you confirm that a factory reset done after installing wlanpoke would eliminate all changes made to the Radio? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rojikewl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62055 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114775 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
