Ropieee wireless issue with Boss 1.2 Player

Darin_Davis · February 13, 2021, 2:20pm

I have the Allo Boss Player. I have installed Ropieee on it. When I pull up the info it is showing the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3. I would like to use it wirelessly and am having trouble activating the wireless function. I go to the networking tab, and it has no trouble seeing the wireless network. I enter in the pass phrase, click on commit but it doesn’t seem to work. I click on the IP info button and it shows no IP address info. Any idea on how to troubleshoot this? I

spockfish · February 13, 2021, 2:24pm

Are you rebooting as is mentioned?

Darin_Davis · February 13, 2021, 2:32pm

Thanks for your reply. Yes, rebooted and tried enabling it multiple times after making thee change.

spockfish · February 13, 2021, 2:32pm

Can you send feedback?

Darin_Davis · February 13, 2021, 2:34pm

Where is that located?

spockfish · February 13, 2021, 2:35pm

on the ‘advanced’ tab.

Darin_Davis · February 13, 2021, 2:35pm

Found it.Just sent

spockfish · February 13, 2021, 2:37pm

yeah. but you need to give me the uuid.

Darin_Davis · February 13, 2021, 2:37pm

7fb2ebe6c1de851e

spockfish · February 13, 2021, 2:46pm

you have authentication failures hence it does not connect.
I suggest you check your password.

Darin_Davis · February 13, 2021, 3:46pm

I have checked and double checked the password and it is so basic that isn’t the problem. I also rebooted the router but no luck. I have a eero wireless router. Any thoughts on why it won’t connect to the eero?

spockfish · February 13, 2021, 3:48pm

Well, as mentioned it says there’s an authentication failure.

Could be some weird timing issue.

Are you up for a challenge? If so could you switch to the beta channel (you can do that from the advanced tab).

I’m curious to see if that makes a difference…

Thanks

Darin_Davis · February 13, 2021, 4:16pm

Happy to try that. From googling I’ve see quite a few others having issues with Wi-Fi with the boss 1.2. I sent an email to allo about it.

Darin_Davis · February 13, 2021, 4:26pm

No luck. I have a usb WiFi adapter. Possible to use that?

Darin_Davis · February 14, 2021, 12:33am

@spockfish, chatted with a few others with this issue. I have a couple of this usb wifi dongle (tplink n150) :
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008IFXQFU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Can this be used? I plugged one in but it didn’t light up and didn’t seem to be available in the admin panel after rebooting. Thanks for your help!

spockfish · February 14, 2021, 8:18am

If it does not show up then it is not recognised.
Either pick one of the dongles mentioned in RoPieee’s changelog or use a wifi bridge.

Thanks

Darin_Davis · February 14, 2021, 4:23pm

Super thanks. Looks like this one matches one in the change log. Will get it ordered. Donation incoming. I plan on using several Ropieee endpoints throughout the house.

Darin_Davis · February 15, 2021, 10:37pm

An update on this… contacted Allo via there support section on the forum audiophile style. I asked about Wi-Fi and he said to take apart the case and remove jumper 25. It did enable Wi-Fi that I enabled in Ropiee. It didn’t bring it up in roon, however while it was up. Then Wi-Fi stopped working and I put the jumper back on and now I can’t access it at all :(. I re-read his instructions and he said, “hook up 2 power supplies” which I overlooked. So I don’t know if I ruined the device or not. I didn’t even know 2 power supplies could be hooked up to it…

Darin_Davis · February 18, 2021, 5:53am

Another update. I purchased the above usb Wi-Fi adapter above, and it works great with Ropieee. For Boss 1.2 users it appears that in order to enable the built in WiFi you have to remove the jumper listed above and use a second power supply for the Pi. Thank you to @spockfish for your replies.