Players unable to connect to LMS

[agbagb]

Just seen for sale from a company called Emerx (unknown to me....) of a new design for a universal SB kit remote:

https://www.emerx.eu/logitech-squeezebox-touch-replacement-remote-control-of-a-different-appearance/#explanationAlien

12.5 euros, from Czech Republic.
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[agbagb]

Thanks Jim! As the fingers are going backwards (now in a brace, to hopefully avoid surgery), both typing and fiddling with cables are annoyingly difficult! So, I'll probably drop this issue for a while, unless it becomes impossible. But I'll be pondering it too, and noting any odd characteristics....

[agbagb]

That topography query was pointed at the second problem poser in the thread, bencat . I had laid out my system in the opening post!

I will throw in one extra detail that I was able to ascertain in the last outage - non SB devices connected perfectly happily to every element of the system...

[agbagb]

Just a small update from the OP. Still getting the problem every few days..... As nothing I do by way of power cycling, rebooting etc seems to make much difference, I'm now just leaving the system as it is, and afer 20 or so minutes it just starts working again. Odd.

A couple of notes:...

[agbagb]

No, players are not synced.

Oddly, separating the 2.5 and the 5 by SSID seems not possible in the router config....... This router seems to have very limited configuration options, but that maybe me not being used to it...... I'm told that the smartphone router app does offer more config...

[agbagb]

Yes, it's an odd one....... I don;t think it can be a time out etc on the laptop as not only am I using it generally when it happens, but I can still push music to the smart TV while the SBs are dropped out. What may be the case is that the laptop and the TV are preferring the 5gHz band of the router...

[agbagb]

Since moving home, this has been an occasional issue, but now seems more persistent. A Touch and a Radio are on the same network as the laptop running LMS. Usually all works fine. But recently, every morning, the radio streams cut out, and the players vanish form LMS, From the players I can ascertain...

[agbagb]

The mini remote, without the number keys, does indeed control Radios and Touches (which are the only devices I have.....)....

[agbagb]

Don't forget that all SB-kit remotes work on all devices (with some differences in the available buttons....). And, on Ebay I'm seeing plenty of those mini-remotes - I've bought a couple of these, and they work fine, if in a limited way. The originals used to have a magnet in the case (was that for...

[agbagb]

Curiously, I got an alert for your post - but as a Someone Quoted You alert - and that link was simple text not HTML!!!! The HTML one I got earlier today was a new Post to Subscribed Thread ........

[agbagb]

I notice that in Thunderbird today the links to the new post in a subscribed thread are proper hyperlinks rather than text (my TBird default view setting is "Original HTML")....

[agbagb]

I'm not seeing where my old signature details are in User Settings, as well as not seeing anyone's Sigs........ Those Sigs are useful here, as they most give Set-up details for any given user / query / contribution....