Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

[konut]

Having followed the entire thread over the past few days, confirming my initial suspicions, I think the OP had it right in his intial post.

Maybe...I should return it and get the new Nokia N800 instead, which has the same EXACT form factor, is even a bit smaller, receives internet radio WIRELESSLY, has an alarm clock feature with snooze, let's me surf the web, AND has 2 built in speakers! I'll bet THEY won't be waking me in the middle of the night!!! Are you reading this, SLIM DEVICES? Take notice!

I'd also bet they won't be nearly as responsive if you have 'issues'. Good luck!

[konut]

Having followed the entire thread over the past few days, confirming my initial suspicions, I think the OP had it right in his initial post.

Maybe...I should return it and get the new Nokia N800 instead, which has the same EXACT form factor, is even a bit smaller, receives internet radio WIRELESSLY, has an alarm clock feature with snooze, let's me surf the web, AND has 2 built in speakers! I'll bet THEY won't be waking me in the middle of the night!!! Are you reading this, SLIM DEVICES? Take notice!

I'd also bet they won't be nearly as responsive if you have 'issues'. Good luck!

[peter]

Pale Blue Ego wrote:
> Nauticus seems confused that others might want to see the display even
> when the player is "off". When not used as a music player, the SB
> makes a superb clock, weather station, etc.
>
> I keep my bedroom SB3 playing all night; actually I'd have trouble
> sleeping without it. Try crashing to Blue Mars or The Drone Zone.
>

Omigod. That reminds me of the night I spent in a hotel in Lisbon with a
total idiot next door who could only sleep when the home shopping
channel was playing.

Regards,
Peter

[peter]

konut wrote:
> Having followed the entire thread over the past few days, confirming my
> initial suspicions, I think the OP had it right in his intial post.
>
> NauticusLX;170227 Wrote:
>
>> Maybe...I should return it and get the new Nokia N800 instead, which
>> has the same EXACT form factor, is even a bit smaller, receives
>> internet radio WIRELESSLY, has an alarm clock feature with snooze,
>> let's me surf the web, AND has 2 built in speakers! I'll bet THEY
>> won't be waking me in the middle of the night!!! Are you reading this,
>> SLIM DEVICES? Take notice!
>>
>
> I'd also bet they won't be nearly as responsive if you have 'issues'.
> Good luck!
>

Nokia are totally stone deaf unfortunately and I'm pretty sick of the
most elementary bugs never getting fixed.

Regards,
Peter

[Mitch Harding]

Have you tried threatening a lawsuit over lost sleep?

On 1/19/07, Peter <landen-slimp (AT) frg (DOT) eur.nl> wrote:
>
> konut wrote:
> > Having followed the entire thread over the past few days, confirming my
> > initial suspicions, I think the OP had it right in his intial post.
> >
> > NauticusLX;170227 Wrote:
> >
> >> Maybe...I should return it and get the new Nokia N800 instead, which
> >> has the same EXACT form factor, is even a bit smaller, receives
> >> internet radio WIRELESSLY, has an alarm clock feature with snooze,
> >> let's me surf the web, AND has 2 built in speakers! I'll bet THEY
> >> won't be waking me in the middle of the night!!! Are you reading this,
> >> SLIM DEVICES? Take notice!
> >>
> >
> > I'd also bet they won't be nearly as responsive if you have 'issues'.
> > Good luck!
> >
>
> Nokia are totally stone deaf unfortunately and I'm pretty sick of the
> most elementary bugs never getting fixed.
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
>

[NauticusLX]

Thought I would weigh in with an update. My "box" lighted up not once but twice early this morning. Fortunately, since my initial post, I bought a 2nd remote control, which has the buttons that light up, which I keep by the bed, so I could "turn it off" easily. But my ISP had a scheduled outtage earlier last night - when they came back online, that might have caused it to turn on. But then this happened again about 30 minutes or so later. All previous posts notwithstanding, I still think it's mighty odd (what is the convenience afforded by this feature?) that the SB needs to be the ONE electrical device with an on/off switch (on the remote) that can "turn itself on" completely against the wishes of the user. For comparison, I keep my PC in hibernate mode, which seems equivalent to the "off" mode of the SB. Yet my PC doesn't "react" if the cable signal stops and starts, ditto the AC power. Other devices that have a "standby" or "hibernate" mode don't come out of those modes against the explicit wishes of the owner (or someone who acts as the owner, for you sticklers out there thinking about remote, unauthorized access such as by a hacker). Why can't the "standby" mode of the SB possess this same degree of integrity?

[snarlydwarf]

The SB must remain at least semi-on so that you can wake it from a PC.

Ie, it -must- have the network interface enabled or it would not be able to work as an alarm clock.

It must have the RF interface enabled or it would not be possible to turn it on with the remote.

As for:

or someone who acts as the owner, for you sticklers out there thinking about remote, unauthorized access such as by a hacker

...

If someone has unauthorized access to your wired or wired network, or can generate spontaneous IR signals in your house you have bigger problems than how bright a display is.

[andyg]

If you haven't already, please update to the latest firmware (81). It contains a bug fix for the quick 'flash' of brightness 4 that occurs when the player loses the server connection. I assume you had your SN player set to brightness 0 and when your ISP went down, it flashed for a split-second?

[azinck3]

If you haven't already, please update to the latest firmware (81). It contains a bug fix for the quick 'flash' of brightness 4 that occurs when the player loses the server connection. I assume you had your SN player set to brightness 0 and when your ISP went down, it flashed for a split-second?

Maybe he had the "off" screen saver set to "none"...in which case the brightness may have been at any level.

[NauticusLX]

Snarly, but it can't work as an alarm clock if there are so many false alarms. Hasn't this occurred to you? Or anybody else?

And Andy, I haven’t noticed the flash in a few months. But in the last week or so, when I leave the SB on during the night (but dimmed down all the way) I’ve noticed the display turned back on on, not enough to wake me, but still, it does seem to have a mind of it’s own. And your company should contact all users when there’s an update available. It’s ironic that I never hear from legit places that have my email address, even when there’s a legitimate need. Have you ever heard of "email"?

The permutations of brightness on/off, screensaver, etc, are a little mind-boggling. Maybe a chart would be convenient. Something like the pre-flight check-list used by the Space Shuttle?