[soyjoyboy]

Hello,

Just received my BDP-1 Friday. Love what I'm hearing so far with the thumb drives but that's all I've been able to do so far.

I am trying to connect the bdp-1 to my airport express (802.11g) which in turn is connected to my airport extreme base station (802.11n 4th generation). All the firmware on these wireless devices are up to date and operate without trouble. Up to now, I have used the Airport Express (AE) to wireless stream music to my BDA-1 (with a fiber optic link from the AE to the BDA-1) from my itunes library on my Mac Pro (OS 10.7.3).

I have so far connected the BDP-1 to the AE with an ethernet cable. Using Minion in Firefox, I set up a server listing the host as bryston-bdp-1.local..... but after this I am lost...minion says there is no server connected. I've also tried to set up a connection with MPad on my iPad 2 What should, can I do to make the connection? 

Peter

[James Tanner]

Hello,

Just received my BDP-1 Friday. Love what I'm hearing so far with the thumb drives but that's all I've been able to do so far.

I am trying to connect the bdp-1 to my airport express (802.11g) which in turn is connected to my airport extreme base station (802.11n 4th generation). All the firmware on these wireless devices are up to date and operate without trouble. Up to now, I have used the Airport Express (AE) to wireless stream music to my BDA-1 (with a fiber optic link from the AE to the BDA-1) from my itunes library on my Mac Pro (OS 10.7.3).

I have so far connected the BDP-1 to the AE with an ethernet cable. Using Minion in Firefox, I set up a server listing the host as bryston-bdp-1.local..... but after this I am lost...minion says there is no server connected. I've also tried to set up a connection with MPad on my iPad 2 What should, can I do to make the connection? 

Peter

Hi Peter,

The newer versions of Firefox will not connect sometimes with Minion (there is a patch for Firefox 11). 

Minion version patch Works with Firefox 11

http://www.gargan.org/en/Mozilla_Extensions/Music_Player_Minion/

As a browser I would recommend Safari to start and type    bryston-bdp-1.local    into Safari and you should get the Bryston Home page.  Also you can try the IP address shown on the BDP-1 display if bryston-bdp-1.local does not work.

james

[soyjoyboy]

Hi James,

Thanks for your reply.

The problem seems to have been the version of airport express (g-type being too old). I happened to be down in Ginza late today and popped into the Apple store and bought a second airport extreme 802.11n. As soon as the setup was complete, I tried to connect via bryston max on firefox and safari and both connected first time no problems. Happy camper here.   

Mpad also connects now no problemo! 

Still can't connect via minion (had already installed the patch for this) but one step at a time I guess.

Cheers,

Peter

[Marius]

Hi Peter,

If you have an ethernet cable between the AE and the BDP1, your AE should be configured to extend the wireless network it receives from your router. It is very dependent of the quality of the wireless network whether this is going to be a stable connection...

You might want to consider this topography: have a wired ethernet-connection from your router to your music-centre. use a switch to connect all your networked machines, including the AE and your BDP1. Use the AE to keep sending wireless music to, and feed those to the BDA1. You can have the AE extend the wired network and make its own wireless network, which is very stable and strong, and very easy to stream to, but also to use for the BDP1's wireless operation through Mpod/mpad. Again, BDP1 is wired through the networkswitch. That also helps to send files to the attached HDD's on a more robust way than rely on a wireless network.

Hope this helps,
Marius

I have so far connected the BDP-1 to the AE with an ethernet cable. Using Minion in Firefox, I set up a server listing the host as bryston-bdp-1.local..... but after this I am lost...minion says there is no server connected. I've also tried to set up a connection with MPad on my iPad 2 What should, can I do to make the connection? 

Peter

[soyjoyboy]

Hi Marius,

Thanks for your reply. Perhaps you've read what I just posted above. Configuring the g-type AE proved problematic, either because it's too old or maybe because I am! In any event, the new airport extreme (and airport utility) did the trick, connected everything without me having to do anything. I will still use the old airport express for streaming air tunes to the BDA-1 though.

Regards,

Peter

[Marius]

Well, just after I posted 

Good for you, it is a wonderful combination of machinery. Enjoy and don't hesitate to post those questions!

Marius

Hi Marius,

Thanks for your reply. Perhaps you've read what I just posted above. Configuring the g-type AE proved problematic, either because it's too old or maybe because I am! In any event, the new airport extreme (and airport utility) did the trick, connected everything without me having to do anything. I will still use the old airport express for streaming air tunes to the BDA-1 though.

Regards,

Peter

[James Tanner]

Here is the setup for Minion:

[soyjoyboy]

Hi James,

Thanks. I finally got it working. I had input everything like you but it seems I needed to put my airport extreme's password in there, which I just did and now all's hunky dory. 

Peter