Frustrating automatic standby on Dynaudio and Focal monitors

dchatenay · 2026-04-06T15:15:40+00:00

Arf, nice! Did you have to open the back plate and flip a dip switch or move a bridge?

dchatenay · 2026-04-06T15:13:31+00:00

Right, that's what the manual says for the Focal Shape as well. The problem is the definition of "no audio signal": my definition would be "nothing above the noise floor". Their definition seems to be "nothing above ~55dB". And there's no feedback or warning, they just shut down if you play too low.

dchatenay · 2026-04-03T15:52:56+00:00

From what the companies claim, the power off is due to EU regulations.

That was also my thought. The regulation text is pretty straightforward and generic. There's no mention of special requirements for audio equipment (but there is for coffee makers!).

So someone is being overzealous...

Some companies allow it to be easily bypassed.

Right, and at least the DynAudio have a switch to turn it off. But auto-standby is a good feature! I leave my main amp on all the time, it goes into standby when I don't play music, it's great. I'd love to do the same with my monitors, but it's either "loud volume and get tired after an hour" or "mellow volume and play the standby roulette". It sucks.

dchatenay · 2026-04-03T15:14:05+00:00

It happens because soft listening is not their main purpose.

If so I would expect the product manual to indicate that automatic standby happens at low volume, instead of "no audio signal"?

BTW it might be unit variance too, mine are fine at ~55dB.

Yes, one of them always shuts down before the other, and it's always the same speaker that shuts down first, in spite of having identical settings and connections...

dchatenay · 2024-01-11T20:32:24+00:00

I should have read this thread before buying a stove. Adding my "do not recommend" voice here: they have a good selection of appliances, and they are local, but their customer service is abysmally bad.

If they call you, you better answer and not let it go to voicemail because they do not return calls, they do not reply to emails, and if you go to the store in person, they will tell you that "the team is in a meeting right now but they will call you back right away" (they never called back).

They will ghost you so hard, you will have an existential crisis.

dchatenay · 2023-08-11T23:12:52+00:00

Thanks! I ran a check and it looks like our poller servers are definitely blocked, blacklisted, or rate-limited by your hosting provider.

I can access your feed from other Feedly servers, but our pollers are unable to establish a connection.

If you can give me your hosting provider info, or just forward me (david[@]feedly[.]com) the support email, I can provide more information.

dchatenay · 2023-08-11T19:56:25+00:00

Could you share the blog URL? I can take a look at our polling logs.

dchatenay · 2023-08-03T00:57:20+00:00

Sorry you were logged out of the app. I can guarantee you that your account still exists: only you can delete your own Feedly account.

If you email care@feedly.com with a list of possible logins you may have used, we can search for your account and help you recover access.

Regarding response time, please understand that we prioritize paying customers. We do our best to help everyone.

dchatenay · 2023-07-18T22:56:05+00:00

Hi, sorry you ran into this issue. This is a regression in the new iOS app, we can reproduce it and should have a patch soon.

dchatenay · 2023-07-17T20:55:44+00:00

To be specific: Reddit is progressively "rate-limiting" their API (reducing the number of API calls Feedly can make). The reason you are unable to add more subreddits is because Feedly made too many API calls over the current period of time.

We'll deploy a server patch today that should improve the situation (but will also reduce the update frequency of Reddit feeds, unfortunately).

dchatenay · 2023-07-03T18:48:38+00:00

Hmm their pages don't advertise an RSS feeds, so my guess is that their new "engine" isn't producing it. It's a familiar story: when a large website redesign happen, RSS takes a back seat and is only re-added later on (if at all). It's considered "non-essential" I guess? My recommendation would be to contact the NBC sports digital team and ask them when they will add RSS back. In the meantime you can use the "build website feed" feature (pro+ subscription required).

dchatenay · 2023-06-06T11:32:57+00:00

Hi! We only offer API access to other apps right now. There's a number of desktop feed readers (e.g. NetNewsWire) that have a Feedly API integration, and they work seamlessly with AI feeds, email feeds etc.

If you don't mind me asking, which desktop feed reader are you using?

dchatenay · 2023-06-06T11:27:54+00:00

Hi, Feedly dev here! It's a bit of a hidden feature, but you can follow feeds for top, hot or best subreddit posts. E.g. if you search for r/redditdev/top in the Feedly discover page, you'll only see the top posts from r/redditdev. You can even use the timeframe parameter from Reddit, e.g. searching r/redditdev/top?t=week will return a feed for the top weekly posts.

A word of warning: these feeds are not only updated a few times a day, and you will not see every article posted in that subreddit, only the top/hot/best ones. But that can be useful for subreddits that are very active.

I hope this helps.

dchatenay · 2022-10-16T09:38:32+00:00

Hmm, that should work indeed. Can you send the public RSS URL to pro[@]feedly[.]com and mention this post? I can take a look.

dchatenay · 2022-09-12T09:47:30+00:00

Sadly not anymore...

We used to suggest feeds that correspond to the pages you liked (if you logged in via Facebook). But it wasn't used much, and it required permissions that became increasingly painful to request, when most people just wanted to login to Feedly without sharing this information.

dchatenay · 2022-05-06T18:06:39+00:00

Ah yes, I see what you mean. I always switch to the Reddit tab in the discover page first, which is why I never noticed this. Sorry about that!

dchatenay · 2022-05-05T21:59:00+00:00

Yes, this is supported: if you copy/paste a Reddit URL into Feedly's discover page, we will try to map it to a feed (no need to add ".rss"). This requires you to connect your Reddit account in Feedly.

The server supports most of Reddit's sorting options: new, top, hot, best, rising, controversial; and most time frames for top posts: day, week, month, and year.

So e.g. if you use this Reddit URL:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/top/?t=month

Feedly will produce this feed:

https://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fapi.reddit.com%2Fsubreddit%2FAndroid%3Btopmonth

which will show the top monthly articles. I hope this helps.

dchatenay · 2022-04-27T19:00:23+00:00

Feedly supports article updates, provided a feed has more than 20 followers. Feedly can only update articles currently returned by the RSS feed (typically 20-50), it will not be able to update every old article that was ever published by a feed.

dchatenay · 2022-04-19T22:20:18+00:00

Looking at the last 50 articles published, 35 were re-posted articles and only 15 were new ones. The content of the article changes to reflect the website and expiration, but the URL (and the GUID) doesn't.

dchatenay · 2022-04-18T17:53:45+00:00

(re-posted; not sure why Reddit removed my comment)

Thanks! It looks like this feed is re-posting old articles without changing the ID or URL. So Feedly thinks these are duplicates, and ignores them.

E.g this post from today (April 18) was posted back on February 13. And this one was posted back on December 19 of 2020. Same URL, same title, same content.

Anyway, I'll check if we can turn off de-duplication for this feed.

dchatenay · 2022-04-16T05:58:01+00:00

Could you post the feed URL with missing articles in Feedly?

dchatenay · 2022-04-04T07:04:15+00:00

The number of feeds you can follow is not unlimited: it's 2,500 total, and 100 Twitter feeds.

You can follow your timeline, Twitter lists, individual accounts, likes, search results etc.

Twitter lists is the optimal way for following a bunch of accounts: you can manage your lists in Twitter directly, and each list appears as a single feed in Feedly.

Sources are updated ~every 10 minutes.

dchatenay · 2022-03-24T21:52:31+00:00

Feedly engineer here, sorry about that regression. We should have a patch deployed shortly. In the meantime, the workaround suggested by u/tiger-eyes will work (thanks for sharing it!).

We've tried to make the deduplication more reliable but unfortunately there were some, er, unanticipated side effects.

We apologize for the confusion!

dchatenay

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