I guess I'm now just about going crazy trying to make my BDP-1 work on my network. This morning, when I turned everything back on (computer, BDP-1) it took three or four cycles of on and off and changing ports on my Airport Extreme to get the computer to even recognize the BDP-1 device. Once that happens, though, the MPod remote works. Anyway, I started fooling around with the settings on the BDP-1 and set it back to the "factory" configuration. Now, I can't get the computer to see it at all. Somehow, though, the MPoD on my IPod touch still works.
Could this be a problem that could be solved by assigning a static address to the device in the computer? Assuming, that is, I can ever get the computer to see the device again.
Oh well. I'm not that hard to please, but it would be nice if this thing worked.
If you are expecting a client to use the Bonjour network service, where you just type bryston-bdp-1.local, you need to expect this to take several minutes for the discovery process to work. This isn't a function of the BDP or even the Airport Extreme router, but a function of the Bonjour service and the MPD Client Software running on your computer or the handheld of your choice.
Using a static IP address will avoid this delay by essentially short-circuiting the Bonjour protocol and the only difficult part is setting up a static IP address on your network. You have two choices here
1) configure the BDP to use a static address with the downside that you have to plug in the DNS information when your ISP changes it.
2) Have the Airport Extreme (or any router) assign the IP address using the MAC address of the BDP. No downside here, and is the method I use for a few network appliances.
BTW, the BDP and Airport extreme works flawlessly for me, just need to be patient on first boot. i.e. I turn everything on, grab a beer, then fire up the client to control it.
Jim
