Adaptors

The "internet radio" almost certainly needs wifi

The USB is probably for playing sound files from a memory stick.

The radio probably doesn't have firmware/drivers to use a USB-ethernet adapter.

If you don't have wifi you'll need to set up an access point wired to your router.

Owain

Depends on the internet radio. My tuner will accept cabled ethernet or a wifi connection and either will be plenty fast enough for audio.

A portable radio tends to sit more happily on wifi. You should be able to follow the simple setup instruction card that comes with it.

Yes. wifi instructions clear enough. Just out of the cardboard and checking to see if anything else needed:-) The manual gives set up instructions for UPnP and DLNA functions which could easily be Greek to the uninformed!

wifi is OK but I am reasonably sure it can be hard wired.

Without a network cable socket I wouldn?t bet on it...

Tim

You might want to tell us what model it is, otherwise we're just guessing.

Theo

DLNA means smart TVS should see it and stream what its playing

Yes. Sorry. I hadn't grasped that there was more to this than simple wiring.

Auna Connect 100 (model 10029865)

I doubt any of our TVs are that clever:-)

I'd have though DLNA in this case would be more a case of the radio being able to "see" MP3 files served from a suitably configured PC, e.g

Are thes dongles not supposed to work via software on your computer?

Brian

Why did you not get an alexa, its pretty simple to use via wifi if you have a mobile or tablet handy. Brian

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There have been hints Brian. I'm about to plug it in and get my brain round the wifi instructions!

Well I'm assuming then that you either have to give it specific addresses of streams to play or operate it from a virtual front end on another device in some way. Seems a little crude when so many of the voice assistants can do this via a link to base. Brian

Devices should spot DLNA servers on the network and offer to use them. My music player can see my home server or any of the PCs that have the DLNA service turned on - as can my Blue-Ray player's media player.

SteveW

That appears to use the Frontier Silicon platform. It is possible there might be a driver in it for a USB-ethernet dongle, but probably not.

Theo

They're restricted in what they'll play though, they're not really internet radios.

I just had a quick look through the manual...

So it seems you have power in, plus line level audio in (for feeding in an external analogue signal for playback using the internal amp and speakers), line out for feeding the output to an external amp etc. The USB seems to be for reading a mass storage device containing music files for playback.

There is no direct wired ethernet capability.

The UPNP facility appears to make the device look like a device which can be streamed to by computers on the network. The DLNA facility allows the "radio" to reach out and access things being shared on a network by a DLNA server should you have one running. While both are nice to have, you can ignore them if all you want to do is have the radio play internet radio.

I get the impression that the radio is only a DLNA client not a server - so while a smart TV may well be able to see the same server and content as the radio, it will do this independently of the radio, and not be able to stream content directly from the radio.