Oops! I knew I forgot something. ;) Forgot the link!
Wondering whats basiacly inside? Can it be reconfigured? Be nice to drop in a LT HD and have it spool off from its hd. Does it decompress mp3 inside or is it just the "audio" over the LAN connection?
01-13-2002 10:29:01
RE:Sonic Blue Rio Digital Audio Receiver from Tiger (modified 0 times)
i have 2 of these units and they are very nice ..
comes with a hpna card and windows software if you want it to work with linux look here http://www.mock.com/receiver/
all the info is there pic's and all
this unit was designed by the Empeg guys.ken segler
aka codeman
www.linux-hacker.net
www.warranty-voiders.com
01-13-2002 14:17:49
RE:Sonic Blue Rio Digital Audio Receiver from Tiger (modified 0 times)
so -- if i have ordinary/normal 10/100 Cat5e RJ-45 ethernet, can I replace the HPNA e-net card in the player, or do i need to add an HPNA device to my network to drive the device?
since mine is backordered , i can't examine it myself . . . (yet)
keith721
01-17-2002 12:05:09
RE:Sonic Blue Rio Digital Audio Receiver from Tiger (modified 0 times)
one thing you will want to do is get a better kernel for it http://www.mock.com/receiver/
with the kernel it comes with the front panel volume control
only works with the amp'd outputs not line level out the new
kernel fixes that.
ken segler
aka codeman
www.linux-hacker.net
www.warranty-voiders.com
01-17-2002 12:23:56
RE:Sonic Blue Rio Digital Audio Receiver from Tiger (modified 0 times)
Got my Sonic Blue today. Plugged into my home E-Net network and turned it on. Both Link and activity light go
on BUT it's not showing a link light on my switch and I can't see it on my network. The activity light is solid. I am color blind so I can't tell if it's red. Initial indications are that I have to do something to it to talk via the
ethernet network. Already have ruled out any problems with the cable or the switch. Any suggestions?
01-23-2002 20:11:44
RE:Sonic Blue Rio Digital Audio Receiver from Tiger (modified 0 times)
i had the same problem pluged into a 10baset hub it worked fine in a 100baset hub so what i did was cut the wires 4-5-7-8
(i think 10base-t uses 1-2-3-6) on the network cable going into the rio and it worked fine.ken segler
aka codeman
www.linux-hacker.net
www.warranty-voiders.com
01-23-2002 20:22:55
RE:Sonic Blue Rio Digital Audio Receiver from Tiger (modified 0 times)
<Ken>Thanks for your quick response. I had it plugged into what I thought was an auto 10/100 switch but
it was not. Plugged it into another autonegociate switch and worked great. Guess I should have read the instructions...thanks again.
01-23-2002 21:08:25
RE:Sonic Blue Rio Digital Audio Receiver from Tiger (modified 0 times)
I finally got my unit installed, it really took about 10 minutes, rather cool. I'm using the homePNA network since I have that as well as wireless and 100M wired.
My main question is: Is there a way from one of my computers to select a song to play? I'm assuming that this would require a mini-web server or something like that.
01-26-2002 20:34:24
RE:Sonic Blue Rio Digital Audio Receiver from Tiger (modified 0 times)
ok, to answer my own questions, no - currently there isn't a working web based interface to the machine, however here are some _really_ interesting links:
received the new Tigger Duh-rect crapalog this evening, and it's on Page 4 for $99 again, but can't find it on the web site, either by part number or manufacturer. . . maybe a phone call to 800-888-4437 will get you one.
TD part number is still M975-1036
02-08-2002 18:51:20
RE:Sonic Blue Rio Digital Audio Receiver from Tiger (modified 0 times)
Here's a third party hack for accessing the Rio Receiver via a web page (Java). It has its limitations, but I am VERY happy someone did the work for this (Go Frank!) It works great for me. It also includes the hack that allows volume control on line out. I easily applied this on my Windows server without any Linux or programming work.
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. . . backordered, darn it!!
, i can't examine it myself . . . (yet)