Patrick
Actually the db is on Linux but I was hoping there might be an easier
way than installing SQlite: the Linux box is low power, headless and
GUI-less - but I can do Excel on my XP machine!
I really don't know whether it can get any easier than that line.
SlimServer does not contain
4. When I try to store a playlist in the left part of the window only
an error message 404 is shown saying that the browse.html cannot be
found.
Does this also happen if you refresh the status window first? Or empty
firefox' cache? browse.html has been removed and isn't used any more. The
Please try to paste the EXACT crash
message from the console or the event viewer.
-kdf
That's the problem - because the command prompt window has crashed you
cannot copy anything in the window. I figure the only way is to get a
screen grab which will then be a PITA to get put on here easily, but
As playlists are now stored in the database I thought the playlist folder
wasn't necessarily needed any more. I don't care about the .m3u files, as
I only use them with slimserver. So I left the playlist folder setting
blank.
This is no good idea: it removes browse playlists from the
This is much, much less attractive, and I'm hoping it's not by design.
It's by design. And attractiveness is a question of personal preference:
too many users were complaining about bad performance in Browse Music
Folders. As this performance hit was due to the visually more attractive
In the new style, I think at least the known extension types can be
stripped off for display. Eg, I have a symbolic links Alex's Music
and Phil's Music, which actually appear as Alex's Music.lnk and
Phil's Music.lnk (shortcuts in Windows).
Do you know whether perl treats shortcuts on
Another problem: Under Browse Genres, there's an option for No
Genre. In it is listed 1) a seemingly random collection of my
artists, and 2) some (maybe all) of my actual genres. Drilling down is
seemingly normal, except there are no songs. Weird.
No genre should contain the songs that
I installed the nightly of July 16 and now ShoutCast does no longer
work. None of the ShoutCast stations can be played back.
If you try again, does it work? There's a known bug which will not play a
stream on the first try, but only the second:
is there an issue with latest Fishbone and the Album review and
Biography plugins on the most recent nightly? I can see the html link
in other skins but its not appearing on the Help page where it used to
live
It's a feature, not a bug: the plugins are now in the main dropdown menu.
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I just installed the latest nightly (4334, Linux). And it does not
recognize/respect my TPOS tags, neither with grouping enabled nor
disabled. Did I miss something?
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I just installed the latest nightly (4334, Linux). And it does not
recognize/respect my TPOS tags, neither with grouping enabled nor
disabled. Did I miss something?
What I meant was: whater I configure, a two disc album shows eg.
1-1. first disc, first song
2-1. second disc, first song
1-2.
One more issue after updating from 6.1.2 to the 09/17 nightly: some of my
players (SB1/SB2) lose connection to the server when it is under heavy
load (scanning) and don't connect any more. The two players are in a
subnet which is blocked in slimserver, with only the exceptions of those
This may be a dumb question, but... Who are you blocking with those
rules?
_Potential_ intruders. I don't trust WEP.
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For sometime it's bugged me that people download nightly builds to
get the latest slimserver code. It's such a waste of bandwidth.
On linux, it's relatively easy to use svn to get the latest updates,
but on Windows I can see it's more of a problem.
Hmm... I just thought about using svn to
I thought the whole page refreshed every minute or so? I'm certainly
sure it used to.
It's only the status pane (right side) in most skins (eg. Default,
Fishbone). And Handheld does refresh _only_ if on the status page.
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Also, anyway to install the beta so it does not overwrite customized
default.map?
Instead of editing default.map, which will obviously be overwritten at
every update, use custom.map, which is not overwritten ;-).
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Oops, forgot the answer to the first part in my other mail...
I haven't been able to find release notes or anything that tells what is
included or updated in the nightly beta versions.
http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/SlimServer
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For custom.map, does that go in the same IR directory as default.map?
Yes.
Also, does the default.map file get updated much or is that pretty
static at this point?
Can't say for sure. But I'd guess it's pretty static.
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undocked (or launchable in a new window), as having statistics
available while browsing other web would be very useful.
You can always open pages in a new window (or tab in FF/Opera). Right
click the link to get the option to
I'm getting empty slots that can't be deleted, the wrong URL in the
wrong slot, etc. Adding and removing favorites just doesn't work
properly.
Could you please give step-by-step instructions of what you're doing and a
description of what you'd like to do?
empty slots might be by design as
Okay, I stopped checkout, deleted my local copy, created a server folder
and did an SVN checkout of http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/trunk.
You even only need http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/trunk/server -
you don't need to download the documentation and tools.
What's the
I am keen to try out the nightly beta's. If I install a beta can I go
back to 6.1.1?
Not easily. You'd have to backup/restore the settings file manually as its
format changed in 6.2
And will installing a beta overwrite my current plugin
folder?
Yes, but leaving in place any manually
1. Browse Music Folder (both Web UI and player UI) - under WinXP, any
shortcuts (.lnk files) are not browsable. I just see song info for
the link file; it doesn't follow the link to the destination folder.
2. Browse Artists - I have regular band names A-Z sorted, then artists
with an
When I install a new version of slimserver, they get wiped out. I
should add that I'm uninstalling the old version first. I take it I
should not do that?
I always install over the existing installation. You could do the
uninstall after having backed up the configuration file, though.
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Installing today's nightly overwrites the default.map file and doesn't
appear to create a backup of the original file. Fortunately I'd taken a
copy of mine before I upgraded. Can't the installer not overwrite this
file if it exists (unless anything has been added to the
default.map??).
Well,
I tried applying Michael Herger's patch for bug 2361, but it seems as if
the handheld skin is currently completely broken.
Yes, it is. If you don't want to wait until I check in another rework,
just remove the line with reference to styles.html from the cmdwrappers
file.
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I don't understand where this 2.25 is coming from; I can't find it in
the source, and it doesn't correspond to the libgd version either,
which is 2.0.32.
Slimserver comes with its own GD perl module (in the CPAN folder). It
might be best to remove it and try again.
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Can you tell us when you consider 6.5.1 to be stable enough to switch to?
It will be announced as any stable release is announced, I'm sure.
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I'm on the 6.2 branch and it seems the same with the Web UI and
MusicInfoSCR - I'm trying to display CURRTIME / DURATION (assuming
CURRTIME means the track elasped time??)
No, CURRTIME is the current time. The elapsed time is PLAYTIME. To be
exactly it's not always the elapsed time, but
It's a bug then, but I can't be arsed to file it.
Are you sure you see it in both the web and the player interface? And
what's the exact format string you defined?
What I've found so far: I only check for CURRTIME alone, not together with
some other formats. As I thought that tag wasn't
not trunkPlugin :)
I'm sure Michael must have a newer version of MusicInfoSCR.pm that
doesn't use the infoFormat call?
No, I don't. Once I've freed my new appartment from all the cardboard
boxes, I'll get it working.
MrC published a patch a while back:
Anyone gotten MySQL 5 working with Slimserver? I can't seem to get it
to work. I *think* it's a problem with DBD::mysql.
Did you try updating your DBD::mysql?
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Adrian,
Alien 1.00a (see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19054)
should work with the latest 6.5.
Is there any reason I should upgrade with 6.2? I'm preparing a SlimCD
release, which is still based on 6.2.2. It's currently using AlienBBC 1.0.
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2006-01-09 00:43:08.4849 ERROR: _getFileContent: Couldn't open:
html/images/nav_currentplaylist.gif
These errors are unrelated to your problem. They talk about problems with
images that have been removed.
Does this sound like a bug, or user error?
Please go to server settings/debugging
How do I do a factory reset?
That was the key to resolving my problem... (well, had to open slimserver
to all IP addresses, enable DHCP on the SB2, fix the address, block
connections again until it worked as before :-))
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Strange that no one else is experiencing this behavior.
I had seen it a while back (2-3 months) with kdf's alarm plugin. My copy
was out of date then. If you're using that particular plugin (not the
default alarm), be sure to download the latest release.
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Does anyone know whether FW 29 will fix this issue? I know the OP said
FW 29 fixes many of the choking issues when Turbo-mode is enabled.
However, in this case, the SB3 chokes simply on Super-G, without Turbo
enabled...
IMHO neither Turbo nor Super-G are standards. It's just marketing
words
When displaying teh clock while the unit is not being used the seconds
jump so rather than run 1, 2, 3, 4, etc they run 1, 3, 4.
This can happen if your server is under heavy load or if you're
experiencing network problems.
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ERROR: Slim::Control::Command::setExecuteCallback() has been
deprecated!
ERROR: Please use Slim::Control::Request::subscribe() instead!
ERROR: Documentation is available in Slim::Control::Request.pm
This is a message for the plugin author, telling him to update his code.
It should still work,
Am I being totally dumb here,
Wouldn't say so :-)
am I overlooking something?
Yes. The NoSetup plugin from my pages.
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Not having done much with the cli before, how do I go about testing this?
Presumably, I telnet to port 3483. Then what?
It's port 9090. telnet yourserver 9090. Then enter the command he
mentioned:
artists 0 5 charset:iso-8859-1
This should return the five first artists in your list.
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OK, here's what I see:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] trac]# telnet 192.168.1.51 9090
Trying 192.168.1.51...
Connected to 192.168.1.51.
Escape character is '^]'.
artists 0 5 charset:iso-8859-1
artists 0 5 charset%3Aiso-8859-1 count%3A2247 id%3A3846 artist%3A
id%3A2463 artist%3A id%3A3085 artist%3A id%3A3709
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_faq.html#networking needs updating then:
It isn't very clear, indeed. If you continue reading it mentions 9090:
You will need to configure your firewall software o r hardware to allow
connections to ports 3483, 9000 and 9090 for both UDP and TCP connections.
I am using the 3/15/2006 build of slimserver and I can't connect to
Shoutcast nor Live365. When I got to Shoutcast, I get the following
error:
Hmm... we're getting more and more of these reports :-(.
Are you using the Windows version of SlimServer? Do you have perl
installed on your
And does it remove the menu skipping problem?
35 - if it fixed the problem for everybody this would be released. Please
see the following:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22170
Also, whats this about a new VU i have heard mentioned?
I thinkt it's not really new, but with
I installed the 3/18 nightly build and get the same exact problems on
both Shoutcast and Live365. Shoutcast gives this error: There was an
error parsing the stream information. Try reducing the number of
streams if you've set a great number. (2).
I really don't understand. I just checked the
Unfortunately if things like Shoutcast spit out bad XML there isn't much
we can do. However, Shoutcast is working fine for me today, so maybe
they've fixed the problem.
I did have the problem mentioned today with the number of streams set to
2000. Reducing to 200 fixed it.
BUT there
This is what I get. Hope it helps:
It's the usual suspects... BTW: what language setting are you using (OS
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Yes, the problem only happened in 6.5 and this version of the plugin
does work!
Dan has made a change which should fix the issue in the latest nightly
build. Could you please give it a try?
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I just made a change to our build machine that should hopefully fix this.
Got a first thumbs up in the german forum. This seems to have fixed it.
What was causing the problem?
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I was one of these lucky persons who did not suffer from stuttering with
FW 28, 35 and 36. Today, I have tried FW 37 and now I can understand how
unhappy are these with the stuttering problem. I don't know why, but
this FW 37 bring to me unbearable stuttering with FLAC and MP3. Fifteen
minutes
1. snapshot a working install to revert back? I tried copying the SS
folder to keep the prefs file, plugins, library cache etc, but copying
it back to the original directory doesn't really 'restore'
What did not work? Depending on your operating system you'd also need to
backup/restore the
How do I ,
a. run the server as a user so it can see my drive mapping, or
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_faq.html#troubleshooting-sharedvolume
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All - I've created a patch (against 6.2.2) that removes the common albums
prefs, and simplifes the creation of new albums for the general case.
It's looking good for me. No settings, better results.
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Is there a way to download older nightly builds ?
http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/
As there is a problem with 2006-04-24, I would like to go back one or
two days. Are those packages still available ?
What's wrong with that build? And please note that in about 30 minutes
there
Actually I said functional browse music folder has been removed :-)
You're waiting for a bug to be fixed which is imho a design decision.
BMF as you like it has been removed because there were too many complaints
about it (mainly performance if I remember right).
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Also, one capability that Andy's added is OpenSearch support,
What is OpenSearch?
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Thanks for asking. :)
Uff! I feared this might be a RTFWP - I found plenty of information
googling around. But will this work without the support on the content's
provider side?
So a content provider could provide a list of stations or RSS feeds to
browse and also let you search it via
Yep, double true from me. Well done on the quick fix!
While it fixes the networking issue I assume this not to fix the problem
you mentioned in the plugins forum, does it?
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I've noticed that server response using both softsqueeze and from the
web interface is much snappier.
Anybody else noticed this?
I'd be surprised. Looking at
http://svn.slimdevices.com/branches/BRANCH_6_3_x/server/
I can't see many changes which could affect overall performance.
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I'd be willing to bet that this is a 6.5 only issue, since you say that
it's not behaving this way for you. It's definitely not skin-specific
though...
I'm too tired tonight to do anything of use... But I plan to do some work
on those plugins tomorrow night.
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Hopefully an easy answer to this question. How do I revert back to the
standard default skin from Default 2 in 6.5b1.
Wow. If this is a FAQ I never saw it asked twice within an hour or two...
http://yourserver:9000/Default/
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Hmm, consider me suitably scolded.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to.
I don't seem to have a slimserver.pref or .prefs file according to a
find / - where should this be?
On Linux systems it's... .conf :-) /etc/slimserver.conf on mine.
I have these in my slimserver.CONF file - is that what was
The web interface comes ok, but the scanning process does not startup.
Running slimserver with --d_startup it shows this:
2006-05-27 11:10:28.8763 slimserver.pl: no executable program located
at D:/soft/Slimserver/server/scanner.pl
This is a known bug:
has anyone experienced this type of behavour before and what do you
recommend I do to fix the problem
Just an idea: do a factory reset. This often helps with that kind of
problem after firmware upgrades.
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The latest build folder is lacking the .no-cpan-arch.tar.gz - there's an
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I run the latest build kept up to date with svn.
trunk or 6.3?
2006-06-14 13:40:22.2813 Parse error on line 38: .mine
This looks like a bad merge. Are you using SVN?
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First problem was that it could not see my network drive when linked to
in the form X:\SB_Shortcut. I used \\Music\maxtorot3\SB_Shortcut and all
worked (Slimserver is running under my personal administrator account).
This is normal for any server run on Windows as a service (check the FAQ
for
so, errr where is the database?
In slimserver's cache folder.
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The current playlist: Save / Download / Clear
...is all but hidden by the listing of the tracks below it. All I can
see is the top line of pixels of this text (even in full screen mode
nothing changes).
I think I've seen similar problem simply when the browser window isn't
large enough.
I wanted to download the latest nightly, but there doesn't seem to be an
rpm there any more. Is something broken?
Seems so. Other builds (tarballs) have been broken, too.
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So download is painfully slow, sub-dialup speeds.
Shouldn't be a problem. I've downloaded several times and it never took
more than a few minutes to do so. Maybe you try at a later/earlier hour?
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One thing that hasn't been discussed (if I've seen it right): FLAC isn't
supported natively in SB1. It therefore has to be transcoded to WAV
(double the bandwidth) or MP3 (poorer quality). I guess the first is the
case. And wireless can't keep up with the bandwith needed. If you limit to
I want to run two instances of SlimServer on my server
If you really want to run it on the same system, then I'd again recommend
using VMWare (if you have the RAM). Easily emulates a second machine
without the need to fiddle with server settings, firewall etc.
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Firmware 58 is now available in svn and tomorrow's nightlies (sorry, I
checked in just to late for today's build).
Any plans for 6.3?
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No, only limited bug fixes are being included in 6.3.1.
Maybe 6.4 then? :-)
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Is there a reason
for slimserver starting it's own instance
Everybody doesn't run a MySQL server.
or can I safely direct it to the main instance?
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3) Some layout problems with Handheld skin.
Some more details? What's wrong with it, are they reported on
bugs.slimdevices.com?
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bug 3782 - although kdf has had a good crack at it already.
I checked in another fix for the gallery mode switch. You'll have to fetch
it from svn as I missed today's build time.
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It seems to work now in Firefox, so I suspect I've got some cache issue
on the PDA. I've tried clearing cookies and browser files.
kdf, I think there's a problem with the image containing a onClick event,
instead of using a href. Is there a reason you didn't wrap the image in a
a element?
MrSinatra - Confirmed w/ 6.5. If you wish to continue listening to an
internet stream you will need to 'look for new and changed music' or
'only rescan playlists'.
...or temporarily connect to the SqueezeNetwork.
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That did the trick - Browse Artists in gallery mode is now working on my
PDA.
Cool! I checked it in (revision 8551). Thanks for the feedback.
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OK - I'll be the first to ask - Will this feature be supported in
Windows at some point??
IMHO it's a limitation in the method Perl's using: forking doesn't exist
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- Support window transparency (windows platform only)
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Yes, on windows you don't get the grey rectangle.
I should not get, I guess :-/. I'm running it using java version
1.5.0_05 on Windows XP, and I do have that rectangle. Some option I'd
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No, command line java -jar Softsqueeze.jar.
Oh, and I'm getting some errors:
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no nativeskinwin32JAWT in java.library.path
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)
at
I see the transporter skin with a transparent background but Squeezebox
Interesting. Started from the command line or through the web interface?
3 skin has a cream rectangle all around it. Wrong background colour?
It's standard Windows border grey for me.
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I see the transporter skin with a transparent background but Squeezebox
3 skin has a cream rectangle all around it. Wrong background colour?
Bingo! (I spoke too soon) I see the same behaviour as James when (and only
when) using Java Web Start. The problem with the Transporter skin occurs
Some of you may have noticed Softsqueeze 3.0b2 is now available in the
One more minor thingy: splash.gif still says Softsqueeze 2
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With fishbone, the player status doesn't update correctly.. (so it's
always stuck on the first song that's played unless I manually refresh
it)
Be sure you flush the cache and do a full reload.
With exbrowse3, the search doesn't work
I think exbrowse3 isn't up to date, yet.
With default2,
Phil,
I've been thinking of writing a new plugin that allows better selection
of now playing screen items from the player UI. I know there's a plugin
alternative already for a different now playing screen, but I don't
think it's easy to adjust the display on the fly. Ultimately, I'd like
These I actually use:
Date and Time Screensaver
Random Mix
Favorites
With recent changes this latter isn't a plugin any more :-)
These are loaded because I might need them sometime:
Don't load them until you need them. You can have slimserver load plugins
when you need
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise I won't be able to
update SuperDateTime for the new display API introduced in 6.5 which
includes support for the two display Transporter.
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Under Choose a random mix of music from your library:
the random artist is missing
You might want to rescan your collection (if you didn't recently). And
clean the Cache folder found under your slimserver installation folder.
What skin are you using? This is looking rather strange to me. If
My settings are to get the most recent 40 albums from the approx 4000
albums in my library. Takes about 20 seconds.
6800 songs, C3/1GHz, 25 albums to display: 2-3 seconds (player and web
interface). There must something be wrong with your configuration.
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I find this a bit strange for browse albums, as an album is low in the
heirarchy.
Except if you browse by... album. I think it's most interesting if you
have the artwork view: some prefer browsing through the covers by artist,
others want it strictly alphabetically.
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00:04:20:05:48:54 artist ?
00%3A04%3A20%3A05%3A48%3A54 artist
Slim%3A%3ASchema%3A%3AContributor%3DHASH(0xe57f300)
Is this a problem with my setup?
No, I can confirm it. Please open a bug report on
http://bugs.slimdevices.com
As a workaround you can use the status query which will give you
Now what's showing up is this weird long
string of characters, not formatted with colons like all the other Mac
IDs showing up in the same DHCP table. And the characters in ths string
are not the same as the Mac ID without the colons.
Did you reboot the router since the upgrade?
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