I've been using my Squeezebox Touch for 10 years now and I'm still blown
away with what it can handle and the quality of the sound it delivers.
For some months now though I've been experiencing lots of problems
keeping it connected to other servers and players around the house. I'm
adding fuller details below but the basic set up is:
- Innuos Zen XL 3TB NAS music server, running LMS 7.9.1 on VortexBox
and connected to my main hifi setup.
- iMac running 7.9.4
- Squeezebox Touch on 7.8.0-r16754, connected to bedroom hifi
- Various IOS devices running iPeng as controllers
Sometime back I found that various of the wonderful plugins (BBC
iPlayer, BBCSounds, Spotty, Mixcloud) would not run (or run properly) on
the Zen which is stuck on LMS 7.9.1--upgrading that would require either
returning the box for a £75 installation of their proprietary InnuOS
operating system (cost £75) or figuring out how to upgrade VortexBox
beyond the current 2.3 version, which would put me into uncharted
territory.
My work-around for a while has been to connect everything through the
iMac and use the Zen as a remote library. But of late the Touch has been
either reluctant or completely refuses to connect and/or stay connected
to the mac. Wifi is always solid whenever I check and all players and
controllers are on the same network. I dare say a look at the Touch's
network logs would reveal something but as there is no web interface for
that I'm completely flummoxed as to where to find it. And I'm not sure
it would mean much to me in any case. Restarting everything sometimes
fixes the problem, but only for a while.
I'd really appreciate some help in figuring out the problem(s) and the
best way forward. I'm reasonably comfortable with tinkering under the
hood in OSX, but I'm out of my depth in things like Perl, and command
line stuff. That said, I may have introduced some kinks in the system
over time, so wondering if it's time to tear everything down and start
again. Either way, I'm already immensely grateful to all the folk who
are keeping the Squeezebox platform rocking and rolling. And if my
problems involve particular work and patience, I'd be happy to pitch in
with some beer funding.
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Bedroom
Player Model: Squeezebox Touch
Player Type: fab4
Firmware: 7.8.0-r16754
Player IP Address: 192.168.1.46
Player MAC Address: 00:04:20:22:60:5e
Wireless Signal Strength: 100%
Zen (VortexBox SW Version: 2.3 / Linux OS Version: Fedora release 20
(Heisenbug)
Player Model: SqueezeLite
Player Type: squeezelite
Player IP Address: 192.168.1.145
Player MAC Address: 00:04:20:0d:12:02
iMac (MacOS 10.15.7)
Player Model: SqueezeLite
Player Type: squeezelite
Player IP Address: 192.168.1.26
Player MAC Address: 68:5b:35:9b:5c:51
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