Cheese
Bitter lover
Hi all,
I just bought such a thingy ...
...and I am just baffled by the fact that there must have been one guy at Logitech who 1) decided to liberate this unbelievably crappy piece of junk for sale and 2) definitely deserves a good slap in his face.
Not that its concept isn't good, in fact it seems brilliant to me and some people pay far more for a toy - but I have yet to find out one thing which works reliably on it. For me it's okay because when the music stops without any apparent reason or when all presets (regularly) get lost, I can fiddle around to make it work again. The trouble is that I bought the thing for my mother for use in the kitchen, I wanted to buy her a radio which she can switch on and later switch off, with a reliably working brodcast in between. And for this purpose you can just forget it.
It works more or less reliably when your local SqueezeServer is running on your PC, some functions you designed in your profile still don't work but let's forget about that. My point is that the radio is actually supposed to work as a more or less standalone device, the Logitech online server taking over the job when your PC or NAS is down (and the profile is stored on the web anyway). In my case this is important because my parents don't have a PC and I took the radio signal from their neighbour's wireless router, he has a bandwith of 50 Mb so the bottleneck isn't there. The disillusion is big - in fact, offline it doesn't work nine times out of ten. And when the radio actually finds the profile, you can be sure that presets will get lost a few hours later without any apparent reason, and sometimes the music itself stops (server overload?).
Did anyone of you actually get this thing to work ? Maybe I'm doing something wrong. At the same time I'd be happy for any suggestions for an small but actually working internet radio.
Thanks.
I just bought such a thingy ...
...and I am just baffled by the fact that there must have been one guy at Logitech who 1) decided to liberate this unbelievably crappy piece of junk for sale and 2) definitely deserves a good slap in his face.
Not that its concept isn't good, in fact it seems brilliant to me and some people pay far more for a toy - but I have yet to find out one thing which works reliably on it. For me it's okay because when the music stops without any apparent reason or when all presets (regularly) get lost, I can fiddle around to make it work again. The trouble is that I bought the thing for my mother for use in the kitchen, I wanted to buy her a radio which she can switch on and later switch off, with a reliably working brodcast in between. And for this purpose you can just forget it.
It works more or less reliably when your local SqueezeServer is running on your PC, some functions you designed in your profile still don't work but let's forget about that. My point is that the radio is actually supposed to work as a more or less standalone device, the Logitech online server taking over the job when your PC or NAS is down (and the profile is stored on the web anyway). In my case this is important because my parents don't have a PC and I took the radio signal from their neighbour's wireless router, he has a bandwith of 50 Mb so the bottleneck isn't there. The disillusion is big - in fact, offline it doesn't work nine times out of ten. And when the radio actually finds the profile, you can be sure that presets will get lost a few hours later without any apparent reason, and sometimes the music itself stops (server overload?).
Did anyone of you actually get this thing to work ? Maybe I'm doing something wrong. At the same time I'd be happy for any suggestions for an small but actually working internet radio.
Thanks.
