Anyone with an early user report re Beo 6 WLAN and Beosound 5 ?

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Scanning the posts, I don't see a lot re. how Beo 6 WLAN works in practice, i.e. how well it controls Beosound 5, where it meets and where it underruns expectations.

Still awaiting my Beo 6 reprogramming, however, if there are some "early adopters" your initial report is welcome.

Thanks

Highly Recommend!

I have had it up and running for about a week now. . .

It's very cool. . .allows you to building your que from the remote. . .seems to work really well for me

Has about a 2-5 second buffer/delay but I can live with that.  .

Very nice when you're in a link room to be able to see what the BS5 has going on!

MJM

excellent addition to the BS5

works flawless

easy access to the complete music collection

 

I share this enthusiam. Regret however that it is not possible to create a playlist.
You can create a que.... What's the difference?
The difference is that you'll have to create a new queue once it has played.

I´m an early adopter of both BS5/BM5 and now the BEO6WIFI  connection. As an IT-worker i´m used to hangups and rebooting and not so upset about that. Since the beginning I actually haven´t had any big problems with the system even tough some rebooting have been made. My system was one of the first and it has worked well with no exchange of hardware or similiar. Today sometimes the ML drops between the BM5 and BV10-46 but I guess that will be solved if I just update the software in the TV which is a little old. I then only put off the power to the TV and it works again.

About the Beo6. I am new to that one and just solved the programming yesterday. I had to download the config software and then got an inlogging to B&Os system for updating the CT5.12. After that and after that I have really charged the Beo6 for many hours the programming worked fine and the covers started to show up on the remote.

When I choose CD the Three small covers show up and I can choose Artists or Album. The Cd that is playing is to the left. The other two shall be some sort of inspiration for music but I don´t know how the system choose them. When I click/tab the left its getting larger and the playing tune shows with some info. One more click and a list of the que shows up. Here its some strange thing because the Que that is shown sometimes only say MOTS and no other info.

When choosing Artist or Album I can first choose Letter and the scroll Artist or Album. Click on an Artist and his/her Albums is shown, click on an Album and the tunes are shown. click short on a tune and it starts playing. Click and hold and you can drop it on the Que, play it now or use it as a MOTS seed. If choosen for MOTS the system doesn´t play that one but the next in the MOTS intelligence which is strange. It also seems as if you choose a tune immideate the MOTS thing doesn´t start after but perhaps I haven´t found out how. Its the same logical above as if you choose an Album. You can also do the same with an artist and every Album sets on the que.

Clicking the + in different places shows the tune that is playing with a large cover.

Sometimes the Remote has it hard to be connected to the WIFI system but that could be some problems with my LAN sender.

The same functionality seems to work in my two link rooms. One has a little bad WIFI connection but I will try to fix it someday :-).

I haven´t had time for more investigations so far but I really like it and its fun to see the covers on the remote.

Brgds Ingvar 

Thank you Ingvar for the detailed report... I will use yours to "benchmark" my installation which I should be getting finalized with Beo 6 WLAN tomorrow evening.

Will report as well.

Peter

Got Beo 6 updated yesterday.

Works flawlessly with Beomaster/Beosound 5.

- Key benefit is really N.Music control...

- I would have appreciated N.Radio capabilities as well (mirroring Beosound 5 Radio Station selection process)

- MOTS and Que are working well, however, as mentioned in previous tags, lag is about 3-5 seconds until titles and album art show on the display

Overall a good capability enhancement, however, more to do !

 

I saw this asked on another thread, but never answered:

Does this Beo6 stuff work with the BS5 regardless of whether it is an audio master? 

It would seem kind of strange if this were true... then again, the 3rd party / android / apple apps seem to only work completely when the BS5 set as the audio master.  I'm not ready to get rid of my BS9000 yet, and it prefers to be master.  I would really like this new Beo6 capability.

Stan

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