SBR powering up automatically? Purple light?

[CardinalFang]

That's damned spooky.

MC

I tried to turn mine off last night, but when I reached for the button the receiver looked at me with its one white eye and a voice came through the speakers that said "I don't think you want to do that Dave".

The weird thing is that my name isn't "Dave"

[BlueWombat]

I was wondering about this same problem. However, I haven't even set up my SBR yet, so am using my controller with my old SB3. I "turned off" the SB3 via the controller before going to bed, only to wake up and find the SB3 happily playing music...luckily, my receiver was off, or the thing would have surely woken me up in the middle of the night!

Any ideas? I've also seen my controller reboot on it's own at least once!

I'm pretty sure I don't have ghosts, though who knows what snuck out of that pretty Logitech /Slimdevices box when I opened my new toy.

[dem]

My SBR is in the bedroom connected to powered speakers, and it came on last night at 1:30 AM and started blasting me with Slacker.

[bklaas]

My SBR is in the bedroom connected to powered speakers, and it came on last night at 1:30 AM and started blasting me with Slacker.

First, that sucks. Though I am not in Marketing, I can assure you that we do not have a secret deal with Slacker to allow us to push their service subliminally, or in your case, totally not subliminally, in the middle of the night.

In all seriousness, this is not good. Can I ask you, and anyone else which this has happened to:

Prior to this happening, had you played with the Settings->Alarm from the SBC for this player? My only theory is that the alarm is getting erroneously enabled and set. I suppose that's a longshot, because I'd be expecting most of these demons to be waking up at midnight rather than 1:30a.m.

cheers,
#!/ben

[dem]

In my case I've never used the Alarm settings for either of my players (SB3 and SBR), and both wake up on their own occasionally.

I said it was 1:30 AM, but it was really something like 1:22 AM. Kind of a strange time for this to happen. There was nothing in the SC logs around this time. I can probably get the exact time from the SBC logs if that would be useful.

[blblack]

In my case I've never used the Alarm settings for either of my players (SB3 and SBR), and both wake up on their own occasionally.

I said it was 1:30 AM, but it was really something like 1:22 AM. Kind of a strange time for this to happen. There was nothing in the SC logs around this time. I can probably get the exact time from the SBC logs if that would be useful.

What about the system SC is on? If it's MacOS or Linux, do the system logs indicate anything funny around then (reboot? loss of network connectivity? DHCP lease renewal? etc?). Whatever the bug is, there must have been some precipitating event other than randomness.

-- Brandon

[dem]

My SC runs on a Fedora Core 5 Linux system with a wired connection and a static IP address. There's nothing in the logs around the time the SBR came on.

The system runs NTP and syncs to another internal server, but there are no NTP-related log messages around the time of the event, such as a clock step. There have been 2 such steps since SC was last started.

The internal master NTP server did switch to a different external stratum 1 server at 00:33 AM this morning, but I'm not sure if that's relevant.

[BlueWombat]

Regarding my setup:

I have SC running on XP Home. As I stated before, I haven't set up the SBR yet, so was playing my SB3 using the controller. I've never used the alarm component, so I don't think that's it in my case. When quitting for the night, I went to main menu of SBC, clicked on "Turn off (SB3 Name)", turned off receiver (thank God) and went to bed. When I got up the next morning the display on the SB3 was displaying song title and song progess, happily playing away to itself.

I don't know of any resets, or other activity that occured. Should there be a log of SC activity I could review?

[BlueWombat]

I tried to turn mine off last night, but when I reached for the button the receiver looked at me with its one white eye and a voice came through the speakers that said "I don't think you want to do that Dave".

The weird thing is that my name isn't "Dave"

Hmmm...I kept thinking I heard a voice whispering my name, then laughing right before my dog's head started spinning. Should I be worried?

[Siduhe]

Regarding my setup:

I have SC running on XP Home. As I stated before, I haven't set up the SBR yet, so was playing my SB3 using the controller. I've never used the alarm component, so I don't think that's it in my case. When quitting for the night, I went to main menu of SBC, clicked on "Turn off (SB3 Name)", turned off receiver (thank God) and went to bed. When I got up the next morning the display on the SB3 was displaying song title and song progess, happily playing away to itself.

I don't know of any resets, or other activity that occured. Should there be a log of SC activity I could review?

Not sure if this is related, but there were a few threads about SBs unpausing themselves in the middle of the night when people were using random play. Switching off the the SB may not "stop" it depending on the setting you have selected for Power on Resume. Were you using Random Play?

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...239#post269239