Greg Erskine wrote: > Most of my wifi dongles are using the Ralink 5370 chipset. They work as > good as any other IMHO. I use them on my development piCorePlayers > because I know they just work.
On piCorePlayer's WiFi Dongles page, I thought I read that the Ralink chipset is not working, but I see now that if you scroll down the page to the more recent entries, it has been changed to "working." Sure, enough, this morning, when I tried CanaKit's dongle again, I saw the flashing blue light for the first time. And, lo and behold, it works. I don't know why it didn't work the first time around. Perhaps, I didn't restart the Rasberry Pi, although I thought I did. Greg Erskine wrote: > > Unfortunately with wifi you are never in full control of your network. > My micro wave oven interferes with my wifi network. Also I noticed some > new neighbours recently with multiple wifi access points (AP) on the > same channel that I am using and often their signal strength is greater > than my wifi AP. On the WIFI Settings page there should be Available > wifi networks. This should show you the AP near your piCorePlayer and > the quality and strength of your signal. Please note, the quality and > strength scale is different depending on the chipset. > > I just reread your issue, whenever I have a apparent gap or silent > period in my music it usually turns out to be a problem with the source > material, such as incomplete rips or weird tracks with a large silent > period. I have rip that has a secret track hidden after 2 or 3 minutes > of silence. What do you do to get music again, do a next track or > restart Squeezelite I've never had such dropouts with my Squeezebox v.3. And it's not the source material. Yesterday, after one of the Moody Blues songs stopped playing, I restarted the Rasberry Pi, and played the same song and it played just fine. In my experience, once the audio drops out, it doesn't come back until I start fiddling with the LMS controls, say stop and start the music again. But I'll try the Ralink WiFi dongle and see if I'm getting the same kind of dropouts. If so, I may end up just buying an Airport Express and plugging the Rasberrty Pi via ethernet cable. This is probably way more information than you're interested. But I'm using an Airport Base Station set to WPA/WPA2 instead of just WPA2 and, as a result, some of my devices show my WiFi appearing twice. This is the case on PiCore's WiFi Settings page. My WiFi appears twice with one very strong signal (88/100) and the other very weak. Presumably, PiCore is using the stronger link, since that one appears at the very top of the list. If I continue to have audio dropouts, I'll set the Base Station to WPA2 only and see if that helps. Thanks for your help. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ghulse's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13636 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97803 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
