Too lazy to dig up the datasheets for those memories but I suspect they
are rated at 10,000 or even 100,000 erase cycles. I feel it is unlikely
wear should be an issue when used in this application.
Since the erase operation is rather slow, sometimes you don't erase and
overwrite when using this
Sorry for being vague, shouldn't have formulated a question before my
first cup of coffee. I was thinking of the model of the memory device.
But from your answer I can deduce roughly what kind of Flash it is.
Flash of that generation usually have pretty much no data retention
problems, but heat
Curious, what's the model number of the device?
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I think the first thing to try is to reprogram the Xilinx.
Remove power from the SB3, press and hold '1' on the remote while
reconnecting power. I believe you will get some prompt on the display
when done.
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df77 wrote:
> I would suggest to first check if the power supply still provides
> sufficient power
Failing power supplies is perhaps one of the most common causes of
"dead" Squeezeboxes, and it's definitely the right place to start, but
there is a little caveat when it comes to testing.
If you
As far as I understand, complete lack of sound on this family of players
can often be fixed by reprogramming the Xilinx device. On players with
infrared remotes, initiating this process is simply a matter of pressing
the right button on the remote while connecting the power, but I have no
idea
Franck@ wrote:
> The creation of "activities" is great and essential. This avoids having
> to juggle multiple remote controls
Exactly! My Harmony controls TV, AVR, satellite receiver, Squeezebox and
an HTPC running Kodi. Aboslutely seamless.
Extra comfort points for using RF between remote and
I bloody love my Harmony Hub, at least when I'm done configuring it
because that's an ordeal which perfectly illustrates the vulnerability
of hardware that's dependent on cloud services.
Hopefully Harmony customers will get the same level of long term support
that Squeezebox users have enjoyed
Sounds to me like a perfect application for 'the DAC32'
(https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?113633-DAC32-low-cost-high-performance-music-streamer).
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> Not sure what you mean by contemporary. Ive updated the drivers a while
> ago to support color displays as well, so you have a decent choice. Now,
> it is SB with and optional color display for artwork. If you want a
> Touch/Radio like experience, a Pi with piCore player
florca wrote:
> Maybe a slight tangent from the original topic, but...
> I have four original, white SB3s which I am *very* attached to, partly
> due to their near-perfect industrial design
For me the SB3 is the ideal model, nice form factor and a display I can
read at a distance.
However, like
I believe there have been some reports on Transporters that stubbornly
refuses to output audio, but it's always worth a try to do a Xilinx
reset.
See 'Wiki'
(https://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Special_IR_Keys_on_Reboot_for_Factory_Reset_and_Last_FW.html)
N.B. the wiki post doesn't actually
Did you measure the PSU output while loaded, i.e. when driving the
Squeezebox? It's quite common that the PSU can deliver the right voltage
with an open output but when it's connected to the SB the voltage drops.
chopinhauer wrote:
> But if Logitech pulls the plug surely at least my current set up will
> still work. Correct?
Correct, up to a point. It won't halt the minute Logitech shuts down the
servers, but it may still affect you in a longer run.
Considering that the Squeezeboxes were always a bit of
cliveb wrote:
> The power supply wall-wart is fine, supplying 5.08V.
Was that measured with the PSU connected to the SB2? A common failure
mode of these are to measure fine on open output but buckling when asked
to drive any load.
I tried a different take on this, casting the web interface, in this
case the Now Playing of the Material skin, to the Google Nest Hub.
The word to note here is the "casting" bit, my home automation
controller (Homey) allows me to cast a web page to a specific Chromecast
player, but I'm sure
Far easier going for one intended for a Squeezebox, like 'this one'
(https://www.amazon.de/Ladeger%C3%A4t-Aktuelle-Squeezebox-Netzadapter-Replacement/dp/B014KS6MRW/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=psu+squeezebox=1558884447=ce-de=1-1)
(first found on Amazon)
They can be found on on Ebay too, or various
Two common faults that can give those symptoms are the external power
supply and the WiFi board.
Since you have a spare SB3, have you tried with the power supply from
that one?
Next would be to open the unit and remove the WiFi board and test it
using ethernet cable?
Both power supply and WiFi
For silent slimproto players, a Xilinx reset sometimes helps. Instead of
holding the '+' button pressed during power up, hold the '1' key.
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Have you tried with a PSU from one of the other SB3s. I would say that
for a behaviour like that, more often than not a failing PSU is the
culprit.
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Most likely the power supply, voltage shouldn't drop that much when
connected. Theoretically it could be something inside the SB3 drawing
too much current, but given how prone the power supplies are to fail I'd
say it's the place to start.
Could be the WiFi board, but my money is on the power supply. Generic
replacements aren't prohibitively expensive.
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Man in a van wrote:
> I have run LMS from all types of Windows OS with just the default
> firewall and Microsoft anti-virus without these sort of problems.
>
> i have never had need of a static IP or anything else. Just kept it
> plain a simple without programs like Avast, Zone Alarm or CCC
NE5 wrote:
> And both ends of the BT flexplug are directly plugged into the electric
> wall sockets too as it tells you too.
If disabling the firewall or antimalware software doesn't help, next I'd
look at those. It's a bit of a reach since the Squeezebox get an IP
address from the router, but
There does seem to be something amiss with your server, looking at the
output from the web interface, but I doubt it's the cause of this
problem.
You say you use ethernet, but do you have a cable connected straight to
the router or do you use some kind of powerline ethernet plugs? These
can
NE5 wrote:
> Sorry I missed this last bit I'll do that. What sort if info will it
> give ?
If you're able to open the web interface to the server it's telling you
that the server is at least running, a quick test you can do when the
player is unable to connect.
NE5 wrote:
> I am getting :
>
NE5 wrote:
> the squeezebox turns on, and stays turned on. It goes through its
> connection sequence but fails to connect, despite several reboots of the
> SB, router and PC. It has connected twice in about the last 20 attempts,
> and numerous changes of IP selections, it just connected
NE5 wrote:
> it turns on, and tries to connect, but won't.
>
> It has occasionally failed to connect for a while now, I needed to
> reboot the SB, or my PC/router to get it working. Now it isn't working
> at all, apart from after numerous attempts when I don't do anything
> different at all,
I have to say I find the descriptions of your problem to be very hard to
follow.
Can you give some detail about what you mean when you say your
Squeezebox has stopped working.
It would seem that the display lights up and the unit accepts input from
the remote, right?
Nevermind that the
I've seen a few discussions on the forum over the years. A quick search
only turned up 'this thread'
(https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?109058-Announcements-Doorbell-plugin),
but I think there are more to be found.
You say "some files", are we talking tens of files in a handful
directories or tens of thousands files spread all over the place?
Not sure if it solves the issue, and depending on the situation it may
for a number of reasons not be manageable, but perhaps building a set of
symbolic links with
Just a thought, a cursory glance at the thread I only found stuff
regarding the screensaver. Check the brightness setting for the blank SB
too, maybe it's set to "off" or whatever the lowest setting is.
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I think 'Xilinx reset'
(http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Special_IR_Keys_on_Reboot_for_Factory_Reset_and_Last_FW)
is the best bet.
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As it happens, Logitech makes universal remotes, and they were kind
enough to include SB support.
Currently using a Logitech Harmony Companion to control TV, STB, AV
Receiver, DVD and SB3.
That said, I haven't tried to set up my SB from scratch using a
universal remote.
jonblauch wrote:
> Thanks for the words of advice.I have connected the SqueezeBox 3 to
> the network directly ( wired vs wireless) and have the same symptoms. I
> have already done the reset/update firmware procedures. I have not
> opened up the unit. @alfista - I di
Two likely culprits:
There has been quite a few failed WLAN boards which can cause different
symptoms, often reboots. This can be verified by removing the board and
testing the unit using wired network. Replacement boards are reportedly
available on eBay.
The power supplies are notorious for
What are the purpose of the change? To have a more expensive system or
some added functionality?
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The two most common problems with SB3, by far, seems to be WiFi boards
and power supplies losing steam.
You can find decent aftermarket PSUs with the right connector from China
for "peanuts", and if you can run wired then you can just remove the
WiFi board.
Either of those fixes seem to revive
As already stated, seems like you have two separate networks.
I believe the cable should be connected to one of the LAN ports of the
AL89300 to avoid creating a separate network.
A quick experiment to try at least.
Removing WiFi board is good advice. Also, try to measure power supply
output when connected to the SB3. I've seen power supplies that had good
voltage when not loaded but dropped to around 3V when connected to the
SB3.
You wouldn't be able to provide a little context? Since there is nothing
with just that name, you don't exactly give any information that would
help getting a relevant answer.
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> What I never understood was why Logitech did not make their UE Wireless
> speakers (and other brands) compatible with LMS. It would be great if
> there was a way to have a portable wireless (or BT) speaker connect to
> my LMS.
Could be many reasons, at the top I suspect is that
When you say it went dark, is it just the display that is affected or is
it completely off line?
If it is completely out, i.e. not playing and not seen from LMS or
Mysqueezebox then I'd start looking at the power supply. They have a
tendency to act up, but replacements are readily available on
cliveb wrote:
> Logitech were, and always would have been, the wrong company to buy Slim
> Devices. Their core businesses were just miles apart.
Perhaps, but I think most other companies would have struggled to keep
the product line going, and most other companies would have wasted no
time
drmatt wrote:
> Sonos also made the executive decision to cripple their digital outputs,
> for reasons no one can fathom; nor do they seem interested in sorting it
> out.
And that must have cost them about five sales or something?
I honestly don't think the majority of potential Sonos buyers
d6jg wrote:
> My point was that Sonos had started to become accepted in the consumer
> electronics field just as Logitech pulled out.
Yes. Only a different subset of the consumers than the Squeezeboxes
caters to. The fact that there was enough buyers to support Sonos
doesn't suggest that there
d6jg wrote:
> What is crystal clear though is that they killed the product line at
> exactly the wrong time just as other high products such as Sonos etc
> were being launched.
Is it?
Sonos had already gained good traction by the time Logitech shut down
production, but I don't see the relevance.
I truly fear for humanity.
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petarst wrote:
> It seems my plan has failed, i knew that router will create some noise
> and i want to eliminate it
That's just nonsense.
There's nothing to suggest that noise carried on the ethernet cable
under normal circumstances will affect audio performance.
Even so, why would a switch
Recoveryone wrote:
> but I guess bumping up to 5G allowed less traffic and better signal
> strength for all my Touches in the house
That's not how WiFi works, moving the server to 5 GHz will not affect
the signal strength to your Touches in any way.
Your Touches clearly had sufficient connection
Short answer: Nah, at least not a Squeezebox brand based on the
architecture we know and (mostly) love.
Don't get me wrong, I think the Squeezebox ecosystem is genuinely
amazing. There seems to be no limit to the adaptability and
extensibility, constantly made to run on new platforms with new
Actually think the internet would be a saner place if all texts
containing "s*und st*ge" would be quietly sent to /dev/null.
I mean, is it really a thing? Is it ever used in any meaningful
context?
And if someone actually believed the stuff, hooking up the server to 5
GHz isn't "putting out more
Fredo wrote:
>
>
> What did I do wrong?
Not sure if that's the reason it failed, but if you have a VB that's not
the right package, you should use the RPM.
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The MAC address of the unit is associated with the old account, the
previous owner should have released it before selling it on. Either
contact the previous owner or contact Logitech support and have them
help you with it. You will have to supply the MAC address that should be
on a sticker on the
rulof72 wrote:
Well, I guess it was bound to happen. The last of my SB Classics from
2005 just died. It was losing connectivity for the last few days and
today it just stopped completely. It won't even power up. I tried a
couple of power adapters but to no avail.
There's been many reports
Ikabob wrote:
I believe they'd really be able to market them to bring in a very big
profit.
Can you present a market analysis backing that?
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The WiFi analyzer will probably not tell you anything useful in trying
to solve this problem, and I doubt it has anything to do with WiFi at
all.
Any chance you could log on to the Pi and check CPU load when you have
your TV connected to the LAN. Perhaps the TV for some reason is pelting
your Pi
In short, to use a networked music player, you need a working network,
start with getting that sorted before you do any more troubleshooting on
your Squeezebox system.
I assume your No 1 router is the one connected to your modem or
equivalent on its WAN side and that you then have a wired
Apesbrain wrote:
Are you able to find instructions on how to use the second router as a
repeater? It's typically not as simple as just plugging it into the
first one.
It's usually referred to as an access point, hopefully the new router
can easily be configured in that mode. Either that or
I suppose it's asking for a security key for the wireless network, not a
password. Is the key really the same as the password?
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Was it perhaps the name that shall not be mentioned but sounded a bit
like Disunity Quease, that was the problem?
I'm truly sorry for the bad fortunes that may have fell upon involved
parties, but the way it has been communicated in these forums is bound
to draw ridicule.
Ok, found the stuff I was thinking of before, and it seems I was on the
right track see 'Proprietary SB3 Firmware Turnkey Media Solutions'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?95025-Proprietary-SB3-Firmware-quot-Turnkey-Media-Solutions-quot)
Suspect this explains the tkmclassics and the
If it's a demo model it's not possible AFAIK, but I doubt you would even
have come this far with one of those.
I believe there are also a number of SB3 floating around that were
delivered with firmware for a specific customer (don't remember the
details), if it's one of those you may be able to
garym wrote:
not that I know of. frequently requested. Andrew says the next major
update to Vortexbox software will allow installation from USB stick.
There are instructions somewhere on how to install from USB, but they
were so convoluted that I gave in and burned a CD. Usually I burn to
CDRW
The concept of LMS is in my opinion the greatest strength of the system
and what set it apart from the competition (many of which withered and
died long before SB). It is also the reason I went for SB instead of any
of the other systems. The actual implementation of LMS may have left
something to
So, it's not just us die hards,
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33199_7-57577076-221/top-7-products-that-should-still-exist/
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charlotte wrote:
Please reassure me
Can't be done it seems, you simply seem hell bent on spreading your
unfounded FUD wihtout any regard to available information or the replies
you've alreade gotten on this forum.
DaveWr wrote:
There is every reason to speculate, we have no official communication of
support status from Logitech.
One reason might be that the future support of SB depends on the success
of UE Radio which for obvious reasons is unknown.
DaveWr wrote:
As operating systems change, updates
DaveWr wrote:
I don't blame the situation on external developers but the strategy (or
lack of) from Logitech. There was no protection of Logitech value,
consequently no business case. As soon as derivation of players
appeared on third party software products, there was an inevitable issue
DaveWr wrote:
No I only own two software players with sync capability, but they work
fine for hours.
I believe hit and miss might appropriately describe the current
situation for syncing SW players, and I'm not sure SqueezePlay is
significantly better than the others in that respect.
DaveWr
kidstypike wrote:
On a windows install there does *NOT* appear to be any way of getting to
the Settings web interface, unless you are savvy enough to know your
server IP address, and that the port no is 3546.
Then again, is there any tangible benefit in using the web interface for
pallfreeman wrote:
No, what I said was that Logitech have been encouraging use of their
official forum since day 1, which is incorrect.
The quoute was verbatim from one of your posts in this thread.
pallfreeman wrote:
Very fair point, but is it not a case of Logitech turning their backs on
pallfreeman wrote:
As I (almost) said before, Logitech have encouraged people to use their
official forum for the Squeezeboxes for a long time. They may prefer
it if we refer all UE stuff there.
Could be. Either way, Logitech can have it the way they want, an UE
related section here will only
erland wrote:
Currently a success of UE Smart Radio is the biggest chance that
Logitech will continue to maintain the Squeezebox server/firmware as
it's pretty similar to UE Smart Radio
Prexactly! I don't think I will buy into the new products, they're not
really the thing for me, but I think
JJZolx wrote:
I'm probably forgetting a few things, but:
- much better sound quality than a PC's onboard audio, without a
pressing need for an external S/PDIF or USB DAC
..
- a color display of what's playing
- very low energy use
Pretty much
Labarum wrote:
Thank you, you state the general issues. I asked how the proposal
affects the older and newer products differently.
I think the older and newer products depend differently on
mysqueezebox.com, and I think the older products have more elements of
the firmware that would
epoch1970 wrote:
With a flock of tiny 24/7 servers maybe stream handling could be
distributed, as in the torrents + tracker model ?
I hardly think server capacity is the issue, rather that some of these
services is unlikely to cooperate with a loose knit bunch of hackers. To
put it bluntly, I
epoch1970 wrote:
Sure thing.
Bandwidth is expensive, so a decentralized system, as far as possible
and acceptable, might decrease the costs.
I could be wrong, but if we consider only the traffic and processor load
involved for users that run local LMS (i e not connecting their players
Considering all the clever plugins availabe (which is one of the things
that makes the SB system so impressive) I wouldn't be all that surprised
to see someone coming up with a plugin or somesuch that made at least
some online services available to SB users even after MySB is dropped,
perhaps by
Grumpy Bob wrote:
From my perspective, the new UE system fails my needs because:
1. There's not a HiFi quality player, just a radio with no digital or
analogue outputs (other than a headphone socket)
Not currently no, but there's nothing to say there won't be. It's been
said that there
jhonsber...@msn.com wrote:
Well if they pull the plug my setup at the office would not work . We
have no computers and only use tablets for our business. The Touch is
directly connected to the router and only MySqueezebox is being used to
play music.
On the other hand, seeing as the Touch
Gingernut63 wrote:
...and fire in the sky.
His Hammond organ defined the sound of Deep Purple, more so than Ritchie
Blackmore's guitar.
Exactly my view, a lot of their tracks wouldn't have nearly the same
punch without the organ, sadly it takes more than just a cursory
listening to figure
aubuti wrote:
For that matter, on the main page, the icons for Sub-forum has threads
with unread posts and Sub-forum does not have threads with unread
posts are also too similar -- just a slight difference in the shading
of the blue icon.
That was the first thing that caught my eye, or maybe
needed I've never had to tweak MSE in any way. Perhaps a reinstall
of LMS after changing security software would do the trick.
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on their device that thay rarely use, have a look at the
appliances and gadgets in your home, I bet that for most of them there
are some features that you've never used.
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vocal members around here are so content with
ever improving their tagging scheme to better organize their music
that they forget (or just aren't aware) that many others, even when
running their own SbS, rely on MySB in one way or other to access the
material they want.
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absolutely need fixed IP, stay with
dynamic.
I may be wrong, but either way, it won't help one bit with MSB in
europe when it's having a bad month or three.
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conflicts. People with little interest in computers often have more or
less plain vanilla systems and generally don't mess with them which
mostly keeps them out of trouble,
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. Personally I
like Squeezeplay which you can download from
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/index.php?ver=7.6
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Yep, there's a mismatch. See
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=620486postcount=44
If your SB2/SB3 is set to not update FW automatically the display will
be blank if you connect to MySB with the older FW which some has
interpreted as the unit being broken.
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No, it's in the menus on the SB3 itself.
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You need to have Squeezebox Server running on the Linkstation (which it
may be good at doing, or not, or anything in between).
Check out the forum section for third party hardware for information
about this kind of setup, I expect there to be some threads about your
model of NAS.
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there a way for Logitech to create a lite version of the plugin
for the older players (with less memory inside?).
As the developers have explained, not unless Spotify remove the DRM
malarky. In other words, don't hold your breath.
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Where?!?
See this thread http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83542
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new in stock
and it's likely to be the last chance of getting an unused Classic.
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