Has anyone got a Karcher internet radio?

I have 2, one in the bedroom to go to sleep to Classic FM, and the other in the kitchen veranda which is on all day playing BBC Radio 4.

The bedroom one is normally flawless but the kitchen one cuts out for a few seconds now and again.

But this morning, total silence on both, surely can’t be a BBC thing as Classic FM is not working either at the moment.

I notice there was a very long thread about this way back in 2022 but just wondered how that was resolved.

While labouriously typing and correcting the above (so much for digital recovery, I think I was better using 1 left middle finger :confounded_face:) I heard the sounds of The Unbelievable Truth drifting in from its satellite source in the living room and realised I was missing it. :enraged_face:

It is the repeat though so I have already heard it, but it is one of those programmes I am happy to listen to twice.

Internet problem, perhaps?

My Karcher just washes the patio and is mysteriously siient when it comes to playing radio programmes…

I am inclined to agree with Lord @Porridge if both of them stopped playing.

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Yes that was what I thought, but then how is it that this works? It’s the same route into the house via the Livebox?

Just tested again, it’s the bloody BBC isn’t it? Classic FM is working fine, what are they up to?

Half an hour later. Just got back from the walk and tried it again, working normally now on R4. Bizarre.

Just had a thought, the Beeb won’t mess with the World Service, will it? That’s funded by the Foreign Office and plenty of good stuff on there. Maybe that is my new daytime home. :thinking:

For many French radio stations, the broadcast (even digital broadcast) is deliberately cut at periodic intervals to prevent people making free recordings of complete songs or shows. From the description of the symptoms you gave, I wondered whether you might be experiencing a similar situation?

Anything is possible, I am used to very occasional, maybe once or twice a day, cuts in the sound of about 3 or 4 seconds but nothing like this before.

BTW the joke was on me when I switched to World Service, it was a complete football commentary, and I hate football.

I thought Karcher made pressure washers ? :thinking:

Karcher making radios is a bit like Ninja making high end coffee machines. Oh, wait …

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We have three internet radios - a Roberts Stream 83i and two Auna. Yesterday morning the Roberts (in kitchen) just would not connect. Tried several times. Tried Auna (in living room) same thing would not connect. The other Auna (in bedroom) no problem. Tried reconnecting various ways - nothing worked. Gave up! All other devices connected ok. In the evening turned on the Roberts - it connected without any problem.

Since 2014 the World Service is funded mainly from the UK television licence fee, topped up by grants from the UK government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

A small amount of income also comes from limited commercial activity and BBC Studios’ profits, but this is marginal compared with licence fee and FCDO funding.

I didn’t know that, but if asked I would pay a small annual fee, my BBC radio is on all day long and my evenings bear a fair amount of BBC TV. Very good value I reckon.

It’s happening again, right now, had to go into the other room to hear the Unbelievable Truth on satellite.

Both radios are not working even on Classic FM, so not BBC as culprits. Obviously not the internet or Livebox either because I am on here now.

What the hell is going on?

They are just a bunch of Sharks

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I think the truth may be unbelievable :grin:

Madame’s Kärcher has umlauts.

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Quite right too - take Kär to never go anywhere without your umlauts.

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Apparently a rosti is a low calorie rösti.

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I have an auna internet radio in my workshop and also an Eversolo through an amp for radio and streaming. The Eversolo picks up Classic FM but not sure about the auna, but I will check tomorrow.

The only UK radio I listen to is Radio 6 on Sundays, Cerys Matthews and Guy Garvey’s finest hour which is one hour too long, in fact it is 3 hours. “Why am I telling you this, because you need to know.”