Copy of instructions I put over on SNA:
Yup the instructions are woeful. They assume some knowledge alot of punters don't have.
Righto this is what you do.
1. You plug the ethernet into your LAN.
2.Power it up.
3.It will have automatically get an ip address on your lan.
3. Now you need to go into your router (usually 192.168.1.1 or 10.1.1.1) find the DCHP table and see what address its got (I fixed mine so I wouldn't have to do this again).
4.You then go back to Minion , go to settings and then enter the ip address that you found for the auraliti.
5. Click on the auraliti as the server( bottom right on firefox browser window- red button that turns green when connected - "manage MPM settings")
6.After I fixed the address in the router and entered the details in minion I then rebooted the auraliti and it connected automatically
7.Plug in your usb drive.
8. and away you go.....use minion or Mpod to control. They are CLIENTS. The SERVER is on LAN.
and here is Damien's comment on CA:
(Caution geek speak ahead) The network is the real challenge for a next gen audio device that really lives in the network. Networking is powerful, mysterious and unpredictable. We use a technology called various things, Bonjour by Apple, Avahi in Linux and multicast dns by network geeks. Its a way of getting network devices to find each other automatically on a network. It usually works if the devices support it. On Windows you must install Bonjour for Printers from Apple http://www.apple.com/support/bonjour/ . It comes built in on Apple products and is not supported well at all on Android (yet). With this the devices are identifiable by name, without it you do need to figure out the IP address of the device. Most routers (dhcp servers actually) will assign an IP to a device and remember the device by its mac address and always pass back that address, except some don't (even those from really major players). Some old routers won't pass the broadcasts that enable this to work. Such is the way of networking. Andrew's trick is one way to find the address of the player. There are other tools as well. The nice thing about Bonjour is that it will find the player even if it gets a new address when it starts again.
The current proven firmware is only USB audio class 1. I have an experimental build with USB audio class 2 that mostly works. However the mostly isn't really ready for primetime. Having the latest and greatest may also mean have the flakey one. And all of the Linux stuff is changing continuously. I will probably freeze everything around CES and then start the serious testing. They can all be upgraded with a simple module change. The USB support in the PK100 is compromised by sharing USB between source and the USB audio device. With USB audio class 2 there are bottlenecks and other intermittent problems that go away with a separate USB controller. We will have a unique high performance USB controller as part of the USB version of the PK100.
All PK100's are assembled, tested in and shipped from San Leandro, CA, USA (much to the consternation of our other halves).
All it is is mapping a server on a LAN and finding that address on your client. It is not plug and play but really it ain't rocket science either.
I question, with good reason, the capability of the "IT guy" at Lenehan. Or the router. Or both.
It's
not a product for computer illiterates. On the other hand you don't have to be a unix guru to make it work: there is no command line involved.
Update: I deleted the DCHP reservation today to see if ZeroConf would pick it up: surely did - that is you plug it in and my Mac (or Windows with bonjour) should pick it up automatically.
