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@Kaiten wrote:
At present I can see nothing that would stop the LinkStation from carrying out the task. Unfortunately I don’t have a Ruku Box to fully test this out.
Thanks for looking at that. I was looking over at one of the Roku forums and noticed a thread that mentioned that Firefly couldn’t be seen when running WEP over the wireless…
As I type this I’ve remembered that I’ve tried this both wired and wireless, so that’s just a red herring… Hurumph.
@cezza wrote:
@Kaiten wrote:
At present I can see nothing that would stop the LinkStation from carrying out the task. Unfortunately I don’t have a Ruku Box to fully test this out.
Thanks for looking at that. I was looking over at one of the Roku forums and noticed a thread that mentioned that Firefly couldn’t be seen when running WEP over the wireless…
As I type this I’ve remembered that I’ve tried this both wired and wireless, so that’s just a red herring… Hurumph.
Uhh, not to be crazy, but have you tried unplugging your sb and plugging it back in?
Every once in a while my sb comes up and will see stuff but won’t connect. When I unplug it and plug it in again, it stops acting stupid.
Probably you’ve already tried something this obvious…
@rpedde wrote:
Do you have a mac that you can run the bonjour browser on?
As it happens I do (although I dual-boot Vista, so don’t actually use MacOS on a day-to-day basis.) What would I be looking for?
FYI, with Kaiten’s help we’ve proved that Firefly’s broadcasting by connecting to it with iTunes (both wired and wireless).
@rpedde wrote:
Uhh, not to be crazy, but have you tried unplugging your sb and plugging it back in?
Ended up having to do this as I booted into safe mode and found I had to have a wired connection to retrograded the firmware, so ended up having to disconnect the SoundBridge and move it the room where my ethernet ports were…
@cezza wrote:
@rpedde wrote:
Do you have a mac that you can run the bonjour browser on?
As it happens I do (although I dual-boot Vista, so don’t actually use MacOS on a day-to-day basis.) What would I be looking for?
FYI, with Kaiten’s help we’ve proved that Firefly’s broadcasting by connecting to it with iTunes (both wired and wireless).
Firefly actually advertises two services. one is _daap._tcp, which is what iTunes looks for, the other is _daap._rsp, which is what the soundbridge looks for.
See if you can see the server advertising _daap._rsp with a valid ip address and what not with the bonjour browser.
And it definitely doesn’t work on a wired connection right next to the server?
Crazy.
The other thing would be to check fundamental networking… subnet masks the same across the board? that’s an obvious “can’t see broadcast” problem.
@rpedde wrote:
Firefly actually advertises two services. one is _daap._tcp, which is what iTunes looks for, the other is _daap._rsp, which is what the soundbridge looks for.
See if you can see the server advertising _daap._rsp with a valid ip address and what not with the bonjour browser.
Didn’t know that – I’ll give the Bonjour browser a go – also thought I’d try installing Firefly under MacOS to see if the SB can see that…
@rpedde wrote:
See if you can see the server advertising _daap._rsp with a valid ip address and what not with the bonjour browser.
So I booted into MacOS and downloaded the Bonjour Browser, and hey presto, all three (I think it’s three) services were broadcasting!
Which doesn’t really help matters.
So for a laugh I reconfigured my wireless network, re-enabling SSID broadcasting and disabling WEP.
So now I have a totally unsecure wireless network.
But I can see Firefly on my SB!
I run a WEP encrypted network that both my SB machines use.
I also lock the network down to known MAC addresses as well.
Somewhere in the back of my mind, I think I might have tried turning off the SSID broadcast – and I think the SB failed at that point.
I would recommend that you at the minimum turn WEP back on.
A quick search of the Roku forum suggests that the naming of the SSID is case sensitive and the SB may have problems with spaces in the name if broadcasting is turned off.
Discusssed http://forums.rokulabs.com/viewtopic.php?t=4542 and http://forums.rokulabs.com/viewtopic.php?t=4325
@Kaiten wrote:
At present I can see nothing that would stop the LinkStation from carrying out the task. Unfortunately I don’t have a Ruku Box to fully test this out.
I’ve reconfigured my wireless network, and my SB now sees Firefly. Just need to determine which bit of network reconfig did the trick…
Many thanks for the time you’ve taken looking into this for me…
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