slartibartfast wrote:
> This morning anything I played on my Radio went silent after between 25
> and 30 seconds. Radio stations and local files. I finally realised that
> slightly turning the volume knob resumed normal playback. Rebooting the
> Radio fixed the issue.
> Anyone else experienced
I've also never seen that. Switching between plugged in and playing on
battery with one of my Radios quite often.
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whitman wrote:
> Thanks again, Kidstypike... new charger purchased, problem solved.
> Battery is now charging as it should. I'm at a bit of a loss as for the
> explanation, though. I didn't think chargers would just sort of wear
> out. Wha'appen?
The defect power supply of my radio got quite
Yes, the battery loads completely again and the radio plays on battery
quite a few hours as expected.
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Experienced this with one of my radios, too. Using the power supply from
one of my spare radios made it work again.
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One of my Radios has an issue with the power inlet (since years): it's
really hard to successfully plug the power connector into this Radio. I
have to twist and move the connector slowly while plugging in and retry
often until it succeeds. So I'm using it always plugged in and told the
family
BertdeJong wrote:
> I am successful in binding both radio's to the AP but overnight when in
> Stand By one of the two (not always the same) loses connection.
You mean the radio loses connection after it was in stand-by overnight?
Was it still connected to the AP and only disconnected from LMS
BertdeJong wrote:
> Has it always worked for you or did you have to change anything?
Always worked. Had to change channels two or three times throughout the
years due to neighbour's Wifi.
Actually I have two RT-N66U routers in AP mode to have a better coverage
in the house. They have the same
Thunder3dan3 wrote:
> Also, I'm wondering if this an Asus issue that got introduce during a
> recent firmware upgrade.
I don't have Wifi issues with two radios connected to an Asus RT-N66U
(in AP mode), currently with firmware 3.0.0.4.382_50702.
Can you tell a little more what you tried except the fixed channel? Did
you check signal strengths and maybe interfering channels in the
neighborhood, for example?
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Occasionally I see one of my Radios or my Touch rebooting itself for no
obvious reason. Happens (always?) from stand-by (clock) screen, so
afterwards the device is on...
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diannabill wrote:
> Michael - I wish there was some way we could meaningfully show our
> appreciation for all you are single-handedly doing to keep us running.
> For me, this is the 2nd time over the past several years that you've
> fixed my radios.
>
> I can tell from the comments that
Do you have internet connectivity problems with other devices in your
network when this happens?
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Is this a current log file? The messages are from March. You don't have
a network issue?
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Not related to your problem, but hopefully you're connecting through a
VPN instead of forwarding a port, see 'this thread'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?107165-IMPORTANT-Stop-forwarding-your-LMS-ports-to-the-internet!).
edwin2006 wrote:
> Leave AP's on?
Sure, I could do so but I try to reduce energy consumption of the APs by
shutting down WiFi if nobody needs it in the night. And it worked like
this for years. Only with the recent different schedulings this caused
problems.
bpa wrote:
> IIRC If the different APs have the same ssid - you'll have problems.
> Radio and Touch do not support roaming.
No, I use identical SSIDs for many years and I can take a Radio and
wander around in the house and the Radio connects to the AP with the
best signal.
Yes, these are the changes I made using the Radio's volume control.
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bpa wrote:
> I can't see anything in logs indicating a voulme change but not all
> sources of change for Radio have been logged (e.g. IR control)
The volume changes are logged, search for "new volume from player" in
the Radio's messages file. I don't have any IR control in use for the
SBs, in
Now it gets even more strange.
The issue occurred again last week, but this time only RADIO2 was
affected. As usually when the issue occurs the now playing screen
doesn't show the currently played track but displays old information and
no progress indication. After roughly 10 minutes the audio
bpa wrote:
>
> Initial suggestions:
> audio.output to DEBUG
> applet.NowPlaying to DEBUG
>
Did that. Will report back when the problem occurs again.
In the meanwhile: is there a way to configure the time span for which
the /var/log/messages file is storing the messages or to configure the
no and no: the radios are not synced and the touch is not affected.
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Thanks for your effort so far, bpa!
The LMS log is shorter because Radio stopped audio output before -
either during the 3rd or 4th track. A few minutes later (cause if it
happens, I'm usually in the shower and I feel a real pain when the music
stops :() I went to the LMS PC, copied the server
bpa wrote:
> When you say " music stopped playing" - do you mean the audio stop (as
> if muted) or did the "Now playing" screen also show stopped and not
> playing and did elapsed time counterprogress bar also stop.
The audio output of the Radio stopped.
As mentioned, the "Now playing" screen
It happened again this morning and here is the server.log with debug
messages for slimproto and the Radio's /var/log/messages file.
There are 3 players involved (I modified the mac addresses in the files
accordingly): TOUCH1 (wired), RADIO1 (wireless) and RADIO2 (wireless).
The LMS server pc that
Ok, I'll do. You've convinced me, because I'd give the same advices to
somebody else having these issues. ;)
Just waiting till the problem occurs again to see if there's some hint
in the slimproto debug messages.
Thanks for the hints. I know that there are many factors influencing
WiFi connectivity.
Wiring these two Radios temporarily would mean to run cables of ~10
meters over the floor. I'd rather want to avoid this. :) And I don't
like to invest in powerlan adapters, since this setup worked over years
It has happened again - with LMS 7.9.1.
Still don't think it's a WiFi issue.
DHCP server is configured to always provide the same pinned ip addresses
for the SB devices and LMS server PC (in fact, for all devices that are
regularly in the network).
And it usually (always?) happens for both
Seems to be not exactly like the problem I have
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?107435-Strange-connection-issues-between-Radio-and-LMS),
but I also suspect it's due to some issue with exchanging state between
Radio and LMS.
I've got two Radios on WiFi that both have occasional connection issues
with LMS on a Win10 PC.
Don't know when it started, maybe some time after updating LMS to
7.9.0?
The symptoms are:
- the local music I've selected to play is playing for maybe 10 or 15
mins and then stops
- the now playing
One of my Radios is affected, too. Not a big problem with this one cause
it's usually plugged in. I reminded the family members to never ever
unplug it. :)
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For me it seems that you are trying too much things at a time.
You said the Radio is connected to the network by cable now. That's
fine. So keep it like that until you succeed in connecting it with LMS.
But first, try connecting the Radio to mysqueezebox.com from the Radio's
menu and try playing
toby10 wrote:
> Nor does having LMS running affect player connection to WiFi.
That's true, but if the Radio indicates that there is no connection by
displaying the WiFi symbol in red it could also mean that there is no
connection to LMS although the WiFi connection is fine.
So in addition to
Maybe a problem with LMS on your PC? Did you restart your PC already?
Which OS? Does the LMS WebUI look ok? Did you check the LMS server.log
file?
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never experienced this on my Radios...
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For your use case of accessing your music remotely, you have several
ways (only the last one involves LMS):
- pre-load your mobile with a selection of songs before you leave home
- upload your songs to a cloud service (google, amazon, etc) and access
them from anywhere
- if your songs are
One of my radios has sometimes (fortunately seldom) an issue to detect
the power connection when I re-plug it after running it on battery for a
while. Looks like it's a mechanical issue and I have to move the plug a
bit to the left and right when I plug the power cord into the radio.
Maybe
Hmm, not sure if it's the same thing. Maybe I didn't describe it clear
enough, but I've tried the power supply from another SBRadio without
success. It didn't connect successfully either.
Only when I move the connector a bit while plugging it into the radio,
it gets connected. So I think it's
My 4-5 year old SBRadio seems to be getting a loose connection of the
power plug.
It happened two or three times during the last weeks that I've heard the
Radio playing a sound (as if it has booted up? - not sure) while it
should be in standby. It then displays that it's on battery while the
durks wrote:
I notice that it's now dropped off the Logitech UK website, too.
Same is now true for Logitech Germany.
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Squeezd wrote:
What to do next?
Did you try to contact Logitech support already? From other posts here
it seems there's a good chance they can help in such cases.
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DjTweed wrote:
They are identical, hardware-wise.
Depends. Found even two SB Radios being different, see
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?96609-Can-two-SBRadios-sound-differently
I'm also thinking about buying another one (have one spare already), but
Amazon.com says it's shipping
In the Radio's Extended Settings menu there is a menu about Power that
displays some measurements. One is whether the battery is loading. Don't
remember what other values are there and not sure whether they are
helpful in any way...
kidstypike wrote:
WOL will not work over wireless.
Sure it does. My wireless Radio wakes up my server successfully.
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newy wrote:
Nope, nothing has chaged. I just unplugged, moved and plugged back in.
Weird that everything else works except this feature.
Hm, are you using the same or different IP addresses? Not sure whether
this could have an impact.
CharlieG wrote:
Too late! She has taken possession of the red radio :-(
Has wrapping paper on it now.
I can wait
I don't have to have it
I can do without it
It's not making me crazy
Really it's not
I can handle this...
Before you get sick while waiting for Xmas, try to find another
CharlieG wrote:
LOL
I think she may notice that!
Put a brick into the box. :D
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You have to download the LMS software from
http://www.mysqueezebox.com/download or from
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/LogitechMediaServer_v7.7.2/ and install
it on a Windows PC or a Mac or a Linux system or a NAS (Network Attached
Storage, e.g. a Netgear, Synology or QNAP).
Then the Radio can
If you are eager for running a minimum number of devices to access your
local music then you could use a Squeezebox Touch. The Touch has the LMS
software built-in for accessing a plugged-in USB drive.
But the built-in LMS server (tiny LMS) has some limitations (e.g.
performance) compared to a
You have to make the files on the router's drive available to other
devices in the network. There should be settings of a SMB server on the
router's configuration pages that allow to do this.
If you've configured this, try to access the files from the device where
your Squeezebox server
Finally I did another comparison, this time both Radios plugged in.
Other conditions as before: same firmware, same LMS settings ('smart
gain', 'both channels'), side-by-side comparison with positions swapped,
sync'd playing, volume level manually set to the same number, both on
wifi and both
JJZolx wrote:
Why would you not expect that?
If the second one is the result of 3 full hardware revisions over the
first, then I would think it easily possible for there to be a
difference in loudness between them at a given numeric setting.
Although I know that it's certainly possible to
ply3908 wrote:
Did you try swapping positions of the 2 radios while testing?
Yes. With the same result.
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Didn't have the time yet to compare both plugged in, but I'll do that
soon.
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Mnyb wrote:
Yes that will do after all it's a relative and not absolute measurement
you wan't . [Edit] important to keep the same distance if you measure.
A lot of home theater enthusiast have that cheap and cheerful radio
schack SPL meter (Sound Pressure Level ) to calibrate speaker and
I'm using the new one w battery, so I compared both running on battery.
I'll try both plugged in.
Do you think it could even make a difference if the battery compartment
is empty or not?
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When comparing my old SBRadio with my new one I got the impression that
they sound slightly differently.
I did a side-by-side comparison, playing them sync'd with both set to
the same volume manually. Both run the same firmware version, of course,
and both were connected via wifi with my LMS.
Mnyb wrote:
Can be a difference , is it brand new does had many hours of playing
,the speaker driver may need some run in time to be at it's best (about
the only thing in audio that may need burn in ) .
But as they are of different hardware revisions ,who knows :-/ maybe
they found a
Mnyb wrote:
Btw same firmware in both radios ?
Yes, as mentioned already. Both run 7.7.2-r9663.
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didjean wrote:
As I said previously, we should keep explaining them their mistakes...
We should contact them via their different channels. They need to know
we are unhappy!
E.g. I sent a mail to support and look at their answer:
You will not have to be conected to the internet to
to watch for this.
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