Greg Erskine wrote: > We will add a few more "Reboot/Restart" messages. Yes, short of handling multiple interfaces I think this would be useful. > Currently we don't support AP or bridging on piCorePlayer. After the > initial wifi setup, we assume you have only one network connection > active. Without bridging I can't see much point having eth0 and wlna0 > activate at once. If you sync, you want to prefer ethernet, but if the player has a battery, you might want to move it around from times to times. You can't bridge a wifi interface in client mode, but you can trunk/bond it. Active/backup bonding would allow to have multiple interfaces up but only one active and a single IP address. So you could start/stop wifi, disconnect/reconnect ethernet almost seamlessly as long as there is still one interface available. I have noticed LMS or pCP, at least with players in a group, hangs on to the IP address he's been using. So multiple interfaces with multiple addresses don't do much. Restarting squeezelite does not make it switch active interface: if wifi was active and ethernet is connected, it will still use wifi (according to tcpdump). In a bond, interfaces could shuffle and always have the same IP address. That would be good for streaming, and also to keep contact with the player's web interface. > A player instance on LMS is defined by the players MAC address, so if > the MAC address changes a new player instance is created using the > player name. Effectively, the original playlist will disappear. The old > instance will disappear after 10 or 15 minutes. I can't see a problem > with this. Use the squeezelite -m option if it makes you happy. -m Makes me happy, because if the network interface changes the LMS player does not, so I can keep my player options intact. (With squeezeplay on pCP I use a "Minimum Synchronization Adjustment" of 100 ms, and one of my players needs volume fixed at 100%.) Using -m 02:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, I can have a player in a group, change its network connection, reboot it and when it comes back, it will reconnect to the group and play just as before. Without it, the same action leads to a confusing situation where you get 2 players with the same name, one dead but with the correct options, one alive but with default options (and not in the group). This clears up when LMS gives up on the unseen player, then you can rebuild the group and start playing. (And by that time the amp attached to my player had auto-shut off, leading to even more question as why it would keep silent...)
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