diff --git a/QuickPlay/Configuration.cs b/QuickPlay/Configuration.cs
index d681e31..fc3ec1c 100644
--- a/QuickPlay/Configuration.cs
+++ b/QuickPlay/Configuration.cs
@@ -90,7 +90,20 @@ namespace QuickPlay
             {
                 throw new InvalidOperationException("Schema of player config URL not supported");
             }
-            return await cfgProvider.GetConfigurationAsync();
+            PlayerConfiguration playercfg;
+            try
+            {
+                playercfg = await cfgProvider.GetConfigurationAsync();
+            }
+            catch (Exception e) when (e is Java.Net.UnknownHostException)
+            {
+                var ctx = Android.App.Application.Context;
+                var t = Android.Widget.Toast.MakeText(ctx, "Could not load config:" + e.Message, Android.Widget.ToastLength.Long);
+                t.Show();
+                cfgProvider = new DummyConfigurationProvider();
+                playercfg = await cfgProvider.GetConfigurationAsync();
+            }
+            return playercfg;
         }
 
         // We want to compare by values.
diff --git a/QuickPlay/Interfaces.cs b/QuickPlay/Interfaces.cs
index 3281365..6c25806 100644
--- a/QuickPlay/Interfaces.cs
+++ b/QuickPlay/Interfaces.cs
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ namespace QuickPlay
     public interface IPlayer
     {
         Dictionary<string, IPlayable> Songs { get; }
+        string PlayerName { get; }
         void Play(string identifier);
         float CurrentProgress { get; }
         bool IsReady { get; }
diff --git a/QuickPlay/MainActivity.cs b/QuickPlay/MainActivity.cs
index 0670541..4420148 100644
--- a/QuickPlay/MainActivity.cs
+++ b/QuickPlay/MainActivity.cs
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ namespace QuickPlay
             // Initialize the RecyclerView
             // Since this is rather complicated, it is in a separate method
             InitializeRecyclerView();
+
+            // Refresh player info
+            OnPlayerUpdate();
         }
 
         private void InitializeRecyclerView()
@@ -108,7 +111,12 @@ namespace QuickPlay
         /// </summary>
         public void OnPlayerUpdate()
         {
-            throw new NotImplementedException("Activity should update.");
+            TextView playerName = FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.playerNameText);
+            playerName.Text = currentPlayer.PlayerName;
+            Toolbar tb = FindViewById<Toolbar>(Resource.Id.toolbar);
+            // This code is seriously lovely. FML.
+            tb.SetBackgroundColor(currentPlayer.IsReady ? new Android.Graphics.Color(Android.Support.V4.Content.ContextCompat.GetColor(this, Resource.Color.colorPrimary)) : Android.Graphics.Color.Red);
+           // throw new NotImplementedException("Activity should update.");
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/QuickPlay/MpdPlayer.cs b/QuickPlay/MpdPlayer.cs
index c91d894..b83bcb1 100644
--- a/QuickPlay/MpdPlayer.cs
+++ b/QuickPlay/MpdPlayer.cs
@@ -20,13 +20,14 @@ namespace QuickPlay
         // MpcCore uses strings, so be it
         string mpdIP, mpdPort;
 
-        public Dictionary<string, IPlayable> Songs { get; private set; }        
+        public Dictionary<string, IPlayable> Songs { get; private set; }
+        public string PlayerName { get; private set; }
         public float CurrentProgress { get {
                 throw new NotImplementedException();
             } }        
         public bool IsReady { get
             {
-                throw new NotImplementedException();
+                return mpd.IsConnected;
             } }
         public void Play(string songId)
         {
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ namespace QuickPlay
         {
             // Populate known fields/properties
             Songs = cfg.songs;
+            PlayerName = cfg.playerName;
             // NOTE: We separate the port by '@', since ':' could be part of IPv6 and we do not want to complicate parsing.
             var connDetails = cfg.playerConnectionDetails.Split('@');
             if (connDetails.Length > 2) throw new InvalidOperationException("Bad connection details");