I was intrigued to see these in the shops over Xmas, never having heard 
of them before.

How do you set them up?  Do you have to pre-program the channels you 
want from a PC or something?

What about security - can you use them on a WEP/WPA-protected wifi network?

David

Lobster  wrote:

> I was intrigued to see these in the shops over Xmas, never having heard 
> of them before.
> 
> How do you set them up?  Do you have to pre-program the channels you 
> want from a PC or something?

Depends on the model: most of the ones in the shops are using the Reciva
module and use the associated web portal www.reciva.com.  This provides
ready-made lists of stations organised by location or genre, including
loads of BBC "listen again" stuff.  You can select stations to go on your
personal "My Stations" list, so you don't have to scroll through the big
lists every time.  You can also have personal lists of podcast URLs and
audio stream URLs.  Some of this depends on having up-to-date firmware
in the receiver.  The Community forum on www.reciva.com has lots of info.

Coming onto the market are models based on a Frontier Silicon module
which supports WiFi and DAB and FM; these use a different web portal,
www.wifiradio-frontier.com, but are likely to offer much the same
functionality.

There are some models (eg Roku?) which I believe you must configure
directly from your PC.

BTW the group alt.radio.digital is mostly about DAB, but does have
occasional discussion about WiFi radios.

> What about security - can you use them on a WEP/WPA-protected wifi network?

The Reciva-based models can use either WEP or WPA, I believe; I have a
Logik IR100 from Currys which I have configured with a WPA key.

-- 
Ronan Flood

Ronan Flood wrote:
> Lobster  wrote:
> 
>> I was intrigued to see these in the shops over Xmas, never having heard 
>> of them before.
>>
>> How do you set them up?  Do you have to pre-program the channels you 
>> want from a PC or something?
> 
> Depends on the model: most of the ones in the shops are using the Reciva
> module and use the associated web portal www.reciva.com.  This provides
> ready-made lists of stations organised by location or genre, including
> loads of BBC "listen again" stuff.  You can select stations to go on your
> personal "My Stations" list, so you don't have to scroll through the big
> lists every time.  You can also have personal lists of podcast URLs and
> audio stream URLs.  Some of this depends on having up-to-date firmware
> in the receiver.  The Community forum on www.reciva.com has lots of info.
> 
> Coming onto the market are models based on a Frontier Silicon module
> which supports WiFi and DAB and FM; these use a different web portal,
> www.wifiradio-frontier.com, but are likely to offer much the same
> functionality.
> 
> There are some models (eg Roku?) which I believe you must configure
> directly from your PC.
> 
> BTW the group alt.radio.digital is mostly about DAB, but does have
> occasional discussion about WiFi radios.
> 
>> What about security - can you use them on a WEP/WPA-protected wifi network?
> 
> The Reciva-based models can use either WEP or WPA, I believe; I have a
> Logik IR100 from Currys which I have configured with a WPA key.
> 

Interesting - thanks.
David