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 wi
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
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 ho
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 d
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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Curious, what's the model number of the device?
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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 c
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
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
CDR
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 ha
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 n
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.
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Unless you know very well why you absolutely need fixed IP, stay with
dynamic.
I may be wrong, but either way, it won't help one bit with MSB in
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g forward.
Agreed. Some of the more 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 acc
are so bothered by having a
function 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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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, o
and
that's not really what Squeezebox is about. Never has been and I dare
say it never will be. I think you will be have better luck with products
that follow a paradigm closer to what you want rather than trying to get
Squeezebox to do somethi
your sig with a
link to an eBay auction or similar would not be violating the forum
rules and work pretty well. Active posters would get more exposure,
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uld be interpreted in that way.
My experience from other forums of this type is however that they don't
work well for advertising. I'm sure there are exceptions, but so far I
haven't seen any.
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Works swimmingly here at least.
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But 7.5.0 did not contain any firmware upgrade for the Boom so your
conclusion seems a bit off the mark. The problems reported in the
thread you refer to were most likely caused by the MySB instability
that occurred last week.
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ream ( audio quality) ?
>
I fail to se why the lower bitrate would be less reliable, rather it
should be less sensitive to wireless dropouts and other intermittent
problems. So I guess I would try a lower bitrate if I got rebuffering
problems due to slow and/or dodgy internet connection
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5 and reverting to 7.4.2.
What server version were you running before? Between 7.4.x and 7.5.x
there should not be any new FW for the SB3. Since most users have been
running that version since september whithout much grief I don't think
it's that clear cut
network equipment has poor (nonexistent more likely)
> protection.
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ave a hub (which most
people don't nowadays) there is a common "medium" where collisions may
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s that
electrically the data in each direction run on separate pairs in a TP
cable when running in normal 10 and 100 Mbit modes. Hence, only one
transmitter and one transceiver in each direction for each segment.
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jo-wie;551588 Wrote:
> Set up the universal remote with JVC DVD player IR codes.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you need the Squeezebox
server for that to work. I'm not sure the SB itself can handle those
codes during initial setup.
y 50% over spec, but this is technology
that in my experience has a fair amount of margin. Cable quality in
particulat could be an issue that is difficult to check, I recently
read of someone who had to redo all the wiring in a new house since the
cheap CAT6 cable he bought was so way of
that as it
may, the vast majority of them will be living in a country where
Spotify currently isn't offered. Alright, they may technically still be
"interested in streaming Spotify", but the lack of support in SB isn't
the acutal hurdle.
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I've also noticed this clock inaccuracy over the last week or two. My
SB3 is connected to mysqueezebox, in particular the notoriously shaky
german server. There's also been quite a few dropouts in connection
recently (displays message about not being able to connect to server)
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aubuti;580219 Wrote:
> With a netbook there's the standard web ui. Or if the netbook is running
> Windows there's the Moose interface, which is quite good.
Or Squeezeplay perhaps which should work well on a netbook I gues
rajm;580932 Wrote:
> I know other people like me who find an LCD slightly distasteful for
> listening to music so, by extrapolation, there must be at least a few
> others worldwide
Actually, I believe very few people listens to the display.
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Must have been, they're there now (at least for US, UK and Sweden which
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Check out
http://www.gwendesign.com/slimserver/dev_hard_and_software.htm#powerswitchii
or http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PowerCenter.html
Those were the two that stood out when I had a quick glance at
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/PluginRemoteControls
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Probably not related to any problem on the mysqueezebox end as such, but
it seems the server has some connectivity problems. Tried to restart the
server and ensured that it can connect to mysqueezebox?
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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
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
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 m
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
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
dire
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
> > >
>
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 thi
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
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 o
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
configu
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 iss
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
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.
al
Sounds like some electrolytic capacitor or other is on it's last legs.
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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
You might want to try doing a Xilinx reset. Power off (pull plug) and
then when powering up agin you press the "1" button on the remote.
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Power supply on its last legs perhaps. Dodgy WiFi boards in the SB3 has
caused a few problems here and there also, if you can live with a wired
conection you could try removing the WiFi board.
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Perhaps related to the recent changes in the mysqueezebox.com service:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83248
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e happy with it. There seems to be some new in stock
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> Where?!?
See this thread http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83542
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Wrote:
> Isn't 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
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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Yep, there's a mismatch. See
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=620486&postcount=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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I suppose it's asking for a security key for the wireless network, not a
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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
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 connec
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 w
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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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 repo
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
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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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
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 exc
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
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 indu
I truly fear for humanity.
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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.
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 wo
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 know
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 pullin
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 Eba
Tony T wrote:
> 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 i
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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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.
alfi
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.
alfista'
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 the
Worth a try doing a Xilinx reset, see
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Special_IR_Keys_on_Reboot_for_Factory_Reset_and_Last_FW
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What are the purpose of the change? To have a more expensive system or
some added functionality?
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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 fa
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 did no
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.
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