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DaveWr · 2011-12-31, 11:42

Great facility, but with a family owning lot's of i devices, I need to turn this off. How, turning off visible doesn't do it.

SaltyDog · 2011-12-31, 15:42

Don't iThingys have on/off switches?

Threats

followed by

extreme actions will usually keep them from messing with your music.

Just kidding of course.

Seriously you may need to use older firmware. I have not noticed any musical difference between Davaar 5 and earlier Davaars.

Hansbeeman · 2011-12-31, 15:57

(2011-12-31 11:42)DaveWr Wrote: Great facility, but with a family owning lot's of i devices, I need to turn this off. How, turning off visible doesn't do it.

I have noticed the same issue. You can hide it from the control points, but not from the iThings. Ideally, once should be able to disable this functionality. Maybe next Davaar release.

pdcman · 2011-12-31, 22:03

Does disabling it in Konfig not do the trick? If not, I agree, it needs to feature in a future release.

If I were 15 again, I could have a lot of fun with this... Big Grin

DaveWr · 2012-01-01, 19:53

(2011-12-31 22:03)pdcman Wrote: Does disabling it in Konfig not do the trick? If not, I agree, it needs to feature in a future release.

If I were 15 again, I could have a lot of fun with this...

How do you disable in Konfig, I can only find the visibility setting. That certainly doesn't hide 'airplay' from iDevices.

pdcman · 2012-01-03, 00:57

(2012-01-01 19:53)DaveWr Wrote:
(2011-12-31 22:03)pdcman Wrote: Does disabling it in Konfig not do the trick? If not, I agree, it needs to feature in a future release.

If I were 15 again, I could have a lot of fun with this...

How do you disable in Konfig, I can only find the visibility setting. That certainly doesn't hide 'airplay' from iDevices.

Yes your right, hiding it does not disable it, like you are able to do with Songcast.
A must for a future software revision I think.............

Weejayuk · (This post was last modified: 2012-01-03 17:06 by Weejayuk.)

If you have an apple airport extreme wifi network you can configure it to have two networks, one for guests or kids, and one for you.
http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MD031/AirPort-Extreme

Your wifi router might do something similar. Check the documentation.

You will need to be clever with the way you set up the subnets, but it should work.
I have not tried it, but it may be a way forward if this is something major for you.

or
You could have two wifi networks(with two wireless routers) in your house (change the channel on one) and hide one so only you know it is there.

Cheers
Will

Briain · 2012-01-03, 17:09

Or if your router has a VLAN facility, you could create 2 VLAN's (one for the DS network and another for everything else). Both groups would still be able to access the internet, but whilst both would still be on the same subnet (and thus both allocated IP addresses from the same DHCP server in the router) they would not be able to see each other. It's a very quick and easy way to separate things like that if your router supports VLAN.

billzab · 2012-01-03, 18:58

You can rename 'netaux' in Konfig. Rename it to 'DON'T USE OR ELSE' and see if they take notice!

DaveWr · 2012-01-04, 09:27

I agree on the VLAN issue, but it is a technical solution to an overlooked Linn configuration issue. The initial problem, my children and their enjoyment of disturbing my music listening has abated. Note they are 31 and 28 years old - so annoying retired father is considered amusing.

I think Linn just overlooked the issue, they put in the visibility config, but probably didn't realise that iThings can always see it.