Problems with Bluesound Vault and PC app finding Node2 that are wireless

everything seems to be working.  Keeping the fingers crossed.
the tech said they have had a big increase in sales around the holiday and thus they are swamped...makes me wonder if the 2i is having some bugs...

I have the 2i and haven't had any problems with connections or updates. SMB  is the file sharing  protocol they use which has been around since the 1980's and is still widely used in small networks. 

the players should be ungrouped before update

Actually, the update should be smart enough to ungroup the players, update them, then regroup what it found originally.   To me, this seems like an obvious common sense thing to do.

As for my system, the recent 1.6 upgrade made the Nodes disappear from the network again.    So, I am doing the reboot, reboot, reboot thing until they reappear.

Spatial

Did you do the update from usb drives, Ethernet, or WiFi?
That’s really discouraging.

I did my update via Wifi.
I needed to reset one of my Nodes-due to them being grouped, and then it accepted the update. No problem with them disappearing. 
Only Spotify gives me trouble-but now that I got a Quobuz trial, I might just go back to the free version. Too bad, as I like the 'Discovery' tab. It always offers great selections that I wouldn't have thought of.
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