el_rico wrote: > Hello, > > My kids are using pCP in their room, but wifi is not always on at home > (I've set the router for that). They listen to local music (USB) and > Spotify. I'm facing a couple of problems: > - it seems that the wifi must be present at boot time, otherwise the > network does not come up later when wifi signal is back: is there any > solution around this? (also, minor issue, but is their any way to reduce > the number of attempts to connect to a wifi network at boot time?) > - I've set LMS IP to be 127.0.0.1 in Squeezelite settings, but LMS > refuses to start, complaining that there's no network interface up. > Loopback interface is up (verified in a SSH session), but it seems it's > not enough for LMS: how can I start LMS on lo? > > Thanks! wicd can monitor available networks and connect when available, assuming there is a package available. But it's unusual to run a network music player with no network so I'm not surprised you are uncovering issues!
I would suggest you switch tack and configure the router to block the tablets at the down times instead of just turning wi-fi off altogether. That way the pi will always get an address. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106755 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
