So, I have a few problems with my Touch, as I've startetd to understand
I'm not alone with.
To tell you my setup, I use my Touch in my car with a 12v-5v/3A
converter, WD My Passport 500gb usb HDD and optical out to DSP. As you
probably understand since it's in my car, I don't have any Wifi for
dave77 wrote:
I'm planning on changing the Boom in the kitchen to a wall mounted Touch
with active speakers. Can anyone recommend some small speakers to match
the sound of the Boom, I've been looking at Audio engine A2 and Bose
companion 20, any suggestions? White speakers and wall mountable
Cheers, A2's are appealing, especially in the gloss white, kitchen is
small 6m x 2m ish so should be ok. Might have to get generic mounts
though as I don't think they have fittings for them
Boom - Controller - Touch - Radio
toby10 wrote:
You could use the same power inverter to power the WD HDD. I also use
an inverter in my car (but not for audio) and three potential issues may
be causing your Touch to rescan often (i.e. losing power). Your
inverter may be shutting down (even momentarily) for three possible
I'm planning on changing the Boom in the kitchen to a wall mounted Touch
with active speakers. Can anyone recommend some small speakers to match
the sound of the Boom, I've been looking at Audio engine A2 and Bose
companion 20, any suggestions? White speakers would be a bonus!
Boom -
You have a lot of things going on here. First, the Touch itself has
borderline computing power to run LMS. It will do it, but it is finicky.
It works reliably for some people, but for most it is hit-or-miss, just
as you are experiencing. Second, it has more problems with USB-powered
drives than
dave77 wrote:
Cheers, A2's are appealing, especially in the gloss white, kitchen is
small 6m x 2m ish so should be ok. Might have to get generic mounts
though as I don't think they have fittings for them
they would definitely work (and in my opinion be a step up from the boom
speakers). Not
aubuti wrote:
You have a lot of things going on here. First, the Touch itself has
borderline computing power to run LMS. It will do it, but it is finicky.
It works reliably for some people, but for most it is hit-or-miss, just
as you are experiencing. Second, it has more problems with
Triode wrote:
I'ts built using poky from the logitech source tree -
https://github.com/Logitech/squeezeos
Hi Triode,
built that version (branch/7.8), the only kernel source it downloads is
with the bitbake squeezeos-image command is a subdirectory of
linux-jive-2.6.22+7.8 with linux 2.6.22
You could use the same power inverter to power the WD HDD. I also use
an inverter in my car (but not for audio) and three potential issues may
be causing your Touch to rescan often (i.e. losing power). Your
inverter may be shutting down (even momentarily) for three possible
reasons.
1. Many
Slowitchu wrote:
What do you mean with the first sentence? LMS? :)
I have a usb powered HDD. I've read about the external power supply
might work better. I guess i could use one, if they don't draw too much
power. Could be near to nothing with one that goes in to sleep mode?
I only set
kidstypike wrote:
LMS is Logitech Media Server, the Touch runs a cut-down version of this,
but it is underpowered.
When I bought my first Touch I really wanted it to work as a stand-alone
player/server, but as many on this forum have found out, it just didn't
work, and I (very
Agree that the 128K P1 feed does not cut it...my solution is to run
Pandora One on a laptop on a Chrome tab and stream it to a Chromecast on
my AV receiver, 192K sounds MUCH better and keeps me using Pandora, also
like the mix feature and the price at $36/year is a steal
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