RE: [Mp3elf-users] Help! elf not working

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Alastair,
Thanks for the quick reply. First things first, it all works!

Last night I shutdown my PC Server, then this morning I took the LCD and
the TINI off of the elf, put them back, restarted my PC, telnet'd to the
elf and started it and ... viola - MP3s over my home LAN!! Very cool.

Now I have a networking issue which I'll send on to Chris.

>	<MP3elf Name =3D "wilko" ID =3D "00.30.1B.XX.XX.XX">
>	you need to put the MAC address of your TINI in there.
>	Also make sure you have a file "default.m3u" with full filename path to=

>your MP3 files.

The MAC address of the TINI makes sense, but when things don't work as ex=
pected,
well, strange configs have been know to work ;)

A question about the MAC address: Why use it? I haven't poked into the El=
f
Server code yet, but using MAC addresses configured on the server seems
very restrictive and somewhat user unfriendly. Perhaps a friendlier plug-=
n-play
scheme could be something like:: Elf boots, broadcasts message to find El=
f
Server, sends MAC address to Elf Server.

>Also, hopefully you followed the instructions about putting the LCD
>connector the other way around (silkscreen is wrong) - it's mentioned in=

>Chris' assembly instructions PDF. That's happened to one or two people.
>Normally shouldn't kill anything.

I ordered a fully constructed mp3elf (I'm strictly a software person), an=
d
whoever put this one together did a great job. The work is *really* clean=

and the finished product looks superb!

-- Tim.