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Dear all,
after having mounted successfully and permanently the hard drives attached to my airport extreme I tried to set up a second volumio in the same network. Unfortunately I did not manage to use them both. I reserved fixed IP adresses and both PIs are working fine it is just not possible to access them both at the same time.

Anyone any ideas?

Johannes

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Hi,

this is not clear when you say :

Just to make sure do you confirm that you are trying to access them via their IP (volumio.local) ?

As their is no reason why you could not access both of them at the same time on the same network.

esseki

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Hi and thanks for the reply. I tried to access them via their fixed IPs, but it is just possible to access the one which was connected first to the network. When I am checking the clients connected to the router I can also only see one of them.

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Problem appears to be network related. If you try them one at a time (i.e. one switched off and the other on) do they work? Have you got a duplicate IP address set with something else?

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Yes, both are working fine separately. When they are both switched off no matter which one I boot first, the first one connects to the network, the second one doesn’t. It is a network issue. They are both fitted with a wifi dongle and I reserved two different IPs for their MAC addresses. I thought it might be a problem with the hostname. Both PIs will connect as “Volumio”. Is there a possibility to change this?

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I also think it’s a hostname problem: some routers just don’t accept duplicated hostname. To change this

nano /etc/hostname

And change to whatever you want, then edit

nano /etc/hosts

accordingly (put the hostname you wrote before instead of volumio).

Then reboot. If that doesn’t work, try to disable Airplay on one of the two, and report it please