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AirPlay won’t connect to devices without a password which has never been set and is turned off in Home. If I remove one of the devices from home, I cannot re-add it to Home because again it asks for a password which does not exist and has never been set. As a result, I cannot use AirPlay to any of devices. AirPlay worked fine on all of them until I tried it this afternoon. I am beyond pissed off. The only reason I got these devices was to stream music to them via AirPlay. Is there a standing solution to this problem? I couldn’t find one in the forums. This seems to be something new that’s happening in the past few weeks or month. I 100% blame WiiM for fucking up my devices with mandatory firmware updates. The devices are worthless and I’ve wasted 3 hours trying to troubleshoot them.

equipment like this needs to “just work” and not be a fucking tech-support project.

I submitted a Support ticket but I’m pissed off about having to sit around and wait for this company to get back to me (assuming there is a solution), wasting my time, and making my devices inoperable.

I have been experimenting with OpenClaw for about a week. Thus far, it is extremely underwhelming. The install breaks in unpredictable ways for seemingly no reason and requires Herculean efforts to fix. for example, a single telegram test message caused my agent to become corrupted and required an hour and a half of troubleshooting with ChatGPT and entering arcane command line input to get it back online. The agent routinely lies and hallucinates (despite appropriate soul and identity direction of the contrary). I’ve managed to get it to monitor email account and send a couple emails, but I don’t think I could trust it with any real world work potential consequence for my life. I love the degree of customization. This thing has, but if it is to have practical value, it needs to be rock, solid and not a weekend hobby that eats up hours of time to trigger basic functionality.

When you top this off with the fact that any skill you download may have malicious instructions. It needs to be reviewed manually and likely through another LLM for safety, it becomes really hard to do anything.

Anyone else having these problems? are there safer and more robust alternatives?

I consider myself a solid novice with networking and Linux but goddamn this thing is fragile. I dreams of using it to assist me in my solo consulting business, but I just don’t think it’s trustworthy.

I really wanted this thing to work as advertised. :(.