CECat, BigPotato,
Thanks, that all makes sense.
Roku Radio is a standalone player with a speaker, no server needed,
stated limitations apply.
Roku Soundbridge is similar to the SB1/2/3, audio output to hi-fi,
stated limitations do NOT apply if connected to a server, can use third
party Music
BigPotato;492444 Wrote:
I'm pretty sure the Roku devices don't have the same requirements as a
SB regarding a server. The device may query a Roku server to check for
firmware updates, but the internet radio functionality and a web server
for configuration is all built-in.
Way off topic,
Yes and no. Depends which Roku device you're talking about.
The Roku Radio is as described -- it does have an AM/FM radio in
addition to wireless internet radio, which has 18 presets that can be
programmed. The radio does not play other sources aside from internet
radio, which is fine with
On the face of it the Roku M1000 series (the only ones I'm familiar
with) seemed to have a number of advantages over the correponding
SlimDevices offerings at the time (SB1).
1. Configure and access internet radio stations without a server
2. Access local uPnP servers
3. Play PlaysForSure media
CECat,
SB online server outages are rare in my 2.5 years using SB players. I
suspect they are doing some system wide updates or bug fixes as I
noticed my Radio losing it's connection to MySB.com several times
yesterday (icon goes Blue). But the Radio kept on playing and
reconnected itself to
CECat;492354 Wrote:
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I'm a new convert whose entire
previous experience is with Roku products. My new Squeezebox radio just
arrived, and in reading the forums here, I see a lot of folks having
issues with mysqueezebox.com server outages, etc.
Hoping
@MeSue -- thanks for the welcome!
@bpa -- sorry for the lack of location, I am in SE Georgia (US). The
original post was about radio and in the radio forum, so figured that
was appropriate identification for the product.
@toby10 -- glad to hear of your experience, that's encouraging.
@TonyT
CECat;492885 Wrote:
Tony, I just ran the alarm test and found that (as I think others have
reported) if there is no internet connection, the display shows alarm
occurring, but no sound whatsoever is played. I, too, hope they fix
that soon. If there's a bug report for that, I'd be glad to
CECat;492885 Wrote:
I, too, hope they fix that soon. If there's a bug report for that, I'd
be glad to vote for it.
Susan
It's a 'long' known bug already :(, see
https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14870
Currently it seems that it will only get fixed after the Touch has been
BigPotato;492444 Wrote:
I'm pretty sure the Roku devices don't have the same requirements as a
SB regarding a server. The device may query a Roku server to check for
firmware updates, but the internet radio functionality and a web server
for configuration is all built-in.
Thanks BP. I did
@BigPotato -- Thanks for the confirmation; that has been my
understanding, but I was beginning to doubt myself. :)
@toby10 -- I did hook up yesterday via mysqueezebox.com and all went
smoothly ... till this morning when I found my internet connection down.
The good news is that the radio DID
Doesn't Logitech even post when there's a widespread outage like
this??? Very disappointing. How often do such outages occur?
Outages are not common but Radio is a new product and so bugs are
appearing. MYSB is working for me in Ireland so this problem is not
like the previous outage which
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I'm a new convert whose entire
previous experience is with Roku products. My new Squeezebox radio just
arrived, and in reading the forums here, I see a lot of folks having
issues with mysqueezebox.com server outages, etc.
Hoping to avoid all that, since
I've never used Roku, but a SB player like your Radio must be connected
to a server, somewhere, somehow to play a stream.
You can connect your Radio to the SBS 7.4 server on your computer or
you can connect it to the MySB.com server online (no computer needed).
--
toby10
Hi Toby,
Thanks for the quick reply. However, I promise that my Roku has no
server connection -- all it requires is a wireless connection to the
internet. No computer is necessary at all unless you want to access
music stored on your hard drive. For internet radio, nothing additional
is
Well, your computer has an operating system and other components a
simple thin client device does not have. SB players are thin
clients that require a connection to a server to function. And,
actually, whatever program on your computer is playing the station
stream is basically acting as the
jmpage2;492375 Wrote:
CECat.
Little do you know that by purchasing a Squeeze device you have played
into their plans to market you relentlessly through their Squeezebox
website.
This is a marketing decision made by Logitech. There is really no
reason that the Radio must be connected
You guys may be right -- Roku may be connecting to a server behind the
scenes without my knowledge. If so, it has had remarkable uptime record,
as the only time we've ever had a problem has been when our internet
connection was down for some reason.
The thing that has been scaring me has been
Don't forget the History the old ip3k based players are *really' thin
clients eg the SB3 SB2 transporter and BOOM .
These can't do a thing without a server, now we have Radio and Touch
that have some processing power on their own .
Now how to make these different products behave with a common
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