So - been having some rather irritation issues with my Arc lately. I have a record player that is connected via line-in to an Era 100 (cheapest way to get this record player onto my Sonos network). That works fine. The problem I continually have it getting my Arc to either play from that line in when its actively playing - OR - to even pair the Arc with the Era 1 so that it plays as a group.
Initially - I had much better results by setting the Arc’s source to this line in. Until recently. What I’ve discovered is that for some odd reason - it stops being able to connect. Seemingly randomly. Looking at my wifi settings - I see that the Arc is continually getting a second IP! I even set my router to only feed it a specific IP to stop this. And that initially fixed it - until the more recent firmware updates. Now it forces its way out of this somehow and grabs another IP. Anyone have any idea how to stop this behavior? It seems to be the root cause of a ton of issues with the Arc and the app itself - so I question if this is truly the root of all the reliability issues we’ve had since this past summer. So utterly annoying.
The Arc works fine when connected over HDMI to the TV - I’d imagine it still needs to use the network because I have a Sub and 2x Era 300 attached to it. So what I’m hoping is that it doesn’t do something dumb like request a new IP when it switches from TV to some other source...
