Duet Controller is dead, receiver factory reset, Mac OS only... Options?

[stevebaggs]

I haven't used a Mac in decades, but I see that VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/ will run on MacOS. If you use that to install a Linux VM on your Mac, I would have thought you could run Net-UDAP on that. It's a bit of a faff to set up for one task, I grant you, but you only have to do it once and it costs nothing except your time. Once you've done it, you may find that having a Linux VM available at the click of a mouse can be handy for all sorts of reasons.

[w3wilkes]

OK, I don't have experience with the SB Duet and was not aware that the Receiver needs the Controller to connect to LMS. I assumed that the Receiver was comparable with a Raspberry Pi running piCorePlayer/Squeezelite, but apparently my thinking was wrong. Hopefully ralphy's squeezeconfig beta app, or the sbconfig utility mentioned by Kebul can then be used to configure the Receiver.

The controller is only needed to set up the receiver. The other tools (Net::UDAP and SBConfig) can be used to config the receiver if you don't have a Duet Controller. Once the receiver is set up you can control what it plays using Material skin, web browser, Orange Squeeze, iPeng, etc.

[CJS]

The OP's problem is the Receiver needs the Controller to get it on the network. Controller no longer works. Needs some method of configuring the Receiver, not controlling it.

OK, I don't have experience with the SB Duet and was not aware that the Receiver needs the Controller to connect to LMS. I assumed that the Receiver was comparable with a Raspberry Pi running piCorePlayer/Squeezelite, but apparently my thinking was wrong. Hopefully ralphy's squeezeconfig beta app, or the sbconfig utility mentioned by Kebul can then be used to configure the Receiver.

[kidstypike]

I am not sure if I understand the problem, but are you running Logitech Media Server on your network? If so, install the LMS material skin on LMS, and you should be able to control your SB Receiver from your smartphone by accessing LMS Material from your web browser. No special control app needed.

For more information on LMS Material see:

https://github.com/CDrummond/lms-material/wiki/01-Introduction

https://cdn.statically.io/gh/d6jg/ma...al%20Skin.html

The OP's problem is the Receiver needs the Controller to get it on the network. Controller no longer works. Needs some method of configuring the Receiver, not controlling it.

[CJS]

I've been trying to find a solution here but it seems that none of the usual app suspects are available from the Android play store... The Net::UDAP solution won't run on a Mac so... Where to from here?

I am not sure if I understand the problem, but are you running Logitech Media Server on your network? If so, install the LMS material skin on LMS, and you should be able to control your SB Receiver from your smartphone by accessing LMS Material from your web browser. No special control app needed.

For more information on LMS Material see:

https://github.com/CDrummond/lms-material/wiki/01-Introduction

https://cdn.statically.io/gh/d6jg/material-documentation/master/html/Material%20Skin.html

[KeBul]

There's sbconfig - a newer utility to configure the older SB devices, available for MacOS

https://jcrummy.github.io/gosqueeze/

Announcement page in these forums:

https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...ration-utility

No idea if it actually works OK for MacOS, seemed to be some issues, but worth a try nonetheless.

The Android version started life/discussion here:

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...ol-for-Android

and can be downloaded from here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/lms...P.zip/download

With respect to your current devices I guess your only other option would be to buy a used Duet or Controller from eBay.

Your final option would be to replace the receiver with one of the more recent streamer options...
for example:

• Raspberry Pi with piCorePlayer or Max2Play (some learning and minor playtime required)
• Dac32 from Polyvection (out of the box solution, https://polyvection.com/en/product/dac32)

Discussion threads on the forum for piCorePlayer and Dac32:

https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...rePlayer-8-0-0

https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...music-streamer

Good luck

Kev

[ralphy]

If you can sideload apps on your android device, the squeezeconfig beta udap apk is available from my downloads site.

[malpeli]

I've been trying to find a solution here but it seems that none of the usual app suspects are available from the Android play store... The Net::UDAP solution won't run on a Mac so... Where to from here?