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General Category => Amazon Echo Discussion => Topic started by: felixxx999 on November 05, 2016, 09:41:50 am
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I'm having a hard time getting BBC RADIO 2 on Tunein to play. Alexa says it's unavailable, but I can access BBC Radio 2 on all my other devices. Could someone try it with their Echo. Ask, "Alexa, play BBC Radio 2 on Tunein" and let me know if it plays for you?
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Just tried it on my Echo, played it with no problem.
It also plays on Radioplayer.
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Playing OK for me this afternoon.
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It worked fine for me when I just tried it.
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I just tried "Alexa, play Radio 2" and it was fine.
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I'm finding that while BBC Radio 2 and 4 play via my Echo Dot, both stations drop out frequently and eventually just seem to stop playing altogether. This happens all of the time, making BBC stations pretty much useless to me. Classic FM plays just fine.
The odd thing is that if I place my iPhone, which is connected to the same WiFi as the Dot, in the same location and use the TuneIn app on the phone, it streams all BBC stations flawlessly!
My guess is that the Dot is using a different set of TuneIn servers to the iPhone, would love to be able to get to a command prompt and use netstat to check!!
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I'm finding that while BBC Radio 2 and 4 play via my Echo Dot, both stations drop out frequently and eventually just seem to stop playing altogether. This happens all of the time, making BBC stations pretty much useless to me. Classic FM plays just fine.
The odd thing is that if I place my iPhone, which is connected to the same WiFi as the Dot, in the same location and use the TuneIn app on the phone, it streams all BBC stations flawlessly!
My guess is that the Dot is using a different set of TuneIn servers to the iPhone, would love to be able to get to a command prompt and use netstat to check!!
I would call Echo support and report this to them and see if they have any solutions.
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I'm finding that while BBC Radio 2 and 4 play via my Echo Dot, both stations drop out frequently and eventually just seem to stop playing altogether. This happens all of the time, making BBC stations pretty much useless to me. Classic FM plays just fine.
Mine drops too - 6Music and Radios 3&4. Haven't tried 1 or 2. I'm trying to think if it also drops internet radio. Could be a TuneIn issue possibly and I'm wondering if there's another gateway that's better and could be made the default.
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I had trouble at first with Radio 4 dropping out. I've also experienced it on my Roberts internet radio, which goes through Frontier Silicon rather than TuneIn. I think there's a problem with BBC streams generally; i recently E-mailed them and they denied all knowledge, of course. But Radio 4 seems much better now ...
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Sometimes it's a wifi signal problem but often it doesn't seem to be - or at least I haven't been able to isolate that as the issue. Early days, still figuring things out.
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Yes I get the same with Radio 5 live listening to football, starts off ok...then stutters and eventually gives up! But other internet radio stations seem fine....seems its a BBC thing.
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I'm finding that while BBC Radio 2 and 4 play via my Echo Dot, both stations drop out frequently and eventually just seem to stop playing altogether. This happens all of the time, making BBC stations pretty much useless to me. Classic FM plays just fine.
The odd thing is that if I place my iPhone, which is connected to the same WiFi as the Dot, in the same location and use the TuneIn app on the phone, it streams all BBC stations flawlessly!
My guess is that the Dot is using a different set of TuneIn servers to the iPhone, would love to be able to get to a command prompt and use netstat to check!!
Yes, I get that too. I've found both stations are more reliable if I use the RadioPlayer skill.
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I eventually got Radioplayer to work, but I found it dropped out even more than TuneIn.
As it happens, Radio 4 hasn't given me a problem for the last few days (touches wood quickly).
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Had internet radio (Radio Paradise, since you ask, and no, it's nothing like it sounds!) on all morning via TuneIn with no drops, not even when the microwave is on which always seems to disrupt BBC stations.
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Is anyone still having this issue? BBC Radio 1 works without dropping out, but just in the last few days Radio 2 breaks up. The dot works fine as everything else works. Anyone else suffering from this?
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BBC 2 is playing fine for me. However, yesterday I noticed that any radio station that I asked for by call sign played for a while and then went off. Maybe a system glitch happening?
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Mine's been cutting out more often the last few days too. Puzzlingly, not all the Echo/Dots, just one or another. Google Home's been knocking off without being asked too. I don't play Radio 2, this is Radio 6. Weather? Signal? Same issue as when HD TV starts to clunk up? No idea but it all resolves quite quickly without much effort.
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The BBC Radio 2 stream on TuneIn has been very poor recently, intermittently dropping out or disappearing altogether.
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Thanks for the feedback everyone, your experience seems to be the same as mine, this week has involved lots of streams that just finish of their own accord when listening to Radio 2. Hopefully it will get back to normal soon.
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Had internet radio (Radio Paradise, since you ask, and no, it's nothing like it sounds!) on all morning via TuneIn with no drops, not even when the microwave is on which always seems to disrupt BBC stations.
My Echo Dot below the microwave sometimes drops while playing French radio RTL on TuneIn as the microwave is running.
I noticed this after switching ISPs (with a different internet box/router). Never experienced that before.
Not sure there is a relationship with the microwave although that was my first guess.
And I don't listen to TuneIn much on my other Echo devices to know if the microwave is indeed the culprit :-/
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I’d blame the microwave!
https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-does-your-microwave-oven-mess-with-the-wi-fi-connec-1666117933
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Mine always knocked out the Echo - on/off/on/off again - but either the Show is different or the problem's been resolved because it hasn't happened since I plugged that in where the Echo used to be.
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"Microwaves are electromagnetic waves with a frequency of about 2.45 GHz and a wavelength of about 12.2 cm; in the electromagnetic spectrum, they fall before infrared light but after radio waves (Heckert 2007). In a microwave oven, microwaves are produced by a device called a magnetron."
"The 2.4 GHz Part 15 band in the U.S. allows spread-spectrum operation as long as the 50 dB bandwidth of the signal is within the range of 2,400–2,483.5 MHz"
So yes, a microwave oven should and will interfere with 2.4 GHz WiFi devices.