One more note to this test. The mute button on the MCL IR eye will also activate the BM5500 and set it in standby.
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Apropos IR eye’s there is an LCS 7000 for sale on Ebay with a round IR eye only with timer and mute button. A little to expensive for my taste though
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So I made a little 7 pin DIN connector with data and ground from the MCL IR eye connected to pin 6 and 2 and a wire to a set of headphones connected to pin 1, 4 and 2. 5V power from a bench supply connected ground and +5V wires of the IR eye.
Setting the IR eye to option 1, and covering the BM5500’s IR eye full control is possible.I´m currently trying to reproduce this. But i can´t achieve full control. Here is my Setup:
- Beolab 8000 connected to Beolab 2 connected to Power Link 1
- MCL Sensor - data (White) connected to BM6500 TV/Aux - Datalink
- MCL Sensor - ground connected to BM6500 Aux - ground
- MCL Sensor - 5V connected to external powersupply
- MCL Sensor in option 1 (Standby - while keeping the timer button on MCL Sensor depressed, press "AV" button on Beolink 1000)
- BM6500 in option 1 (Standby - press "sound", "1", "store")
Hello. First of this was just some random testing of IR eye's i different environments, and I might not have thought all scenarios through.
Also there are some differences internally in the BM5500 and BM6500 around the data signal in the AUX connection, so it might not work the same as it did with my BM5500 (It is unfortnuatly dead now and given to another person so can't redo the test of it)
With this Setup I´m able to start up the BM6500 via my Beolink 1000 remote. The correct source is also selected. But unfortunately the speakers stay muted and cannot be umuted by neither the “mute” button on the Beolink nor the “mute” button on the MCL Sensor.Thinking a little more about it in this situation the sensor is connected the same way as if it was in a link room. That means that it will only active the sound for the speaker 2 connections and the speaker 1 and powerlink will stay muted. I didn't have any speakers connected for my test so didn't notice that. However you should still be able to active the powerlink speakers via the BM6500 internal IR eye? This leads me to asking what you are trying to achieve here? Is it because you wan't better coverage in a large room, or is the internal IR sensor not working? There was a kit available with an external IR sensor for the BM6500 as mentioned earlier in this thread . I might be hard to find one know though.
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Hello, Thanks for the quick reply!
This makes sense. The MCL Concept is designed to specifically do this. And checking the PCB shows the white" Datalink line from the MCL Sensor is actually wired through to the Beomaster. Accordingly, it makes no difference where the MCL Sensor is connected to, but probably the command itself is distinguishing if Power Link 1 is unmuted.Thinking a little more about it in this situation the sensor is connected the same way as if it was in a link room. That means that it will only active the sound for the speaker 2 connections and the speaker 1 and powerlink will stay muted. I didn’t have any speakers connected for my test so didn’t notice that.
Correct. This is all working as expected. For the test I just taped over the internal IR eye.However you should still be able to active the powerlink speakers via the BM6500 internal IR eye?
I actually don´t need the additional MCL Sensor in my day to day use. I´m using it to identify commands from the Datalink protocol. I know about the Datalink manual and I´m already able to send and receive signals. The commands from the MCL Sensor allow me to start up the BM6500, but only into the muted state. I hoped this could be solved by setting the correct Sensor and BM options. As mentioned above, maybe it´s part of the actual Datalink command. Unfortunately, I have not found a comprehensive documentation of the actual commands yet.This leads me to asking what you are trying to achieve here? Is it because you wan’t better coverage in a large room, or is the internal IR sensor not working?
There was a kit available with an external IR sensor for the BM6500 as mentioned earlier in this thread
I hoped this could be solved by setting the correct Sensor and BM options. As mentioned above, maybe it´s part of the actual Datalink command. Unfortunately, I have not found a comprehensive documentation of the actual commands yet.I don't think the option settings should make any difference as they only tell the Beomaster if it only recieves audio commands (option 1) or both audio and video commands (option 2).
I actually don´t need the additional MCL Sensor in my day to day use. I´m using it to identify commands from the Datalink protocol. I know about the Datalink manual and I´m already able to send and receive signalsAs for the datalink part there are currently 2 members working on projects where they are using datalink if you are not aware of it. They might be helpfull with insights: B3OHACK3R: and PILATOMIC: link Also there is this project on GITHUB: link
linkYeah but it is somehow compatible with other products as mentined by GUY in this postI was wondering if this is actually an external IR sensor, or if it is providing Datalink commands. But a brief look at the BM7000 schematic suggests that it actually is providing IR commands.There was a kit available with an external IR sensor for the BM6500 as mentioned earlier in this thread link . I might be hard to find one know though.
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lordgspaltenhorn wrote: I hoped this could be solved by setting the correct Sensor and BM options. As mentioned above, maybe it´s part of the actual Datalink command. Unfortunately, I have not found a comprehensive documentation of the actual commands yet. I don’t think the option settings should make any difference as they only tell the Beomaster if it only recieves audio commands (option 1) or both audio and video commands (option 2).I was leaning in that direction after reading this post from B3OHACK3R: But perhaps I misunderstood.
link As for the datalink part there are currently 2 members working on projects where they are using datalink if you are not aware of it. They might be helpfull with insights: B3OHACK3R: https://forum.beoworld.org/forums/topic/masterlink-usb-adapter/ and PILATOMIC: https://forum.beoworld.org/forums/topic/beotooth-5500-a-datalink-bluetooth-receiver/ Also there is this project on GITHUB: https://github.com/toresbe/datalinkThank you for the hints! The Github Project is the foundation of my code. Unfortunately it´s also missing a documentation of Datalink commands used for Beomaster control. Now that holidays are over, my next step is gettin in touch with the two users/threads you mentioned. Maybe the solution is not that distant anymore!!
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