SecretSheep wrote:

For those of you not enamoured with the Beosound 8, B&O are releasing the iPort which is made by Sonance. This small device allows your iPod or iPhone to be controlled using your Beo4 and on screen displays anywhere in the house. (You clearly need the linked TV to be in view!) It uses PUC software to control the device. Maybe useful for a second home so you can use the iPod as a mini server.

Hi

I have major difficulties finding a point with this. In my world it would be interesting if iPhone/Pod/Pad could control B&O equipment. This sounds like the opposite. I try to use Beo4 as little as possible. It is no good remote, you can not see graphically what you are doing, bad user Interface, no two way e t c. It is good looking and has good buttons though, but is just a tool.

If B&O could instead deliver something to control beo4 via iPhone, like a very light Master Link Gateway, would be very nice thank you.

Have a nice day

Clakke

Clakke wrote:

SecretSheep wrote:

For those of you not enamoured with the Beosound 8, B&O are releasing the iPort which is made by Sonance. This small device allows your iPod or iPhone to be controlled using your Beo4 and on screen displays anywhere in the house. (You clearly need the linked TV to be in view!) It uses PUC software to control the device. Maybe useful for a second home so you can use the iPod as a mini server.

Hi

I have major difficulties finding a point with this. In my world it would be interesting if iPhone/Pod/Pad could control B&O equipment. This sounds like the opposite. I try to use Beo4 as little as possible. It is no good remote, you can not see graphically what you are doing, bad user Interface, no two way e t c. It is good looking and has good buttons though, but is just a tool.

If B&O could instead deliver something to control beo4 via iPhone, like a very light Master Link Gateway, would be very nice thank you.

Have a nice day

Clakke

 

What you're talking about is the ML Gateway.  No need at all for a "light" one really.

Also, I don't expect this iPort to be that big of a deal.  It's just a PUC controllable iPod dock.  As far as I know it won't work with iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.  Your only option for video is component (ie no Matrix switcher) and it's priced pretty high for what it does.

On an interesting note though this is the first PUC device I've seen which you can actually control using direct Hex commands (ie. IR plug ... not flasher).  Thats what I'm a little more interested in!

The Lintronic box can also accept remote commands directly via scart or datalink. This solution seems really elegant - but pricey - you can do the same thing for £200 with a lintronic box and Onkyo dock. The graphical interface though is much better on the sonance and it will be easier to setup./

Does anyone know if the STB-C software for older TV's will be updated to controll this?

Clakke wrote:

I have major difficulties finding a point with this. 

Yeah.  Same here.  Me, I have a $10 cable which can hook our iPhones to the Aux-In on our BS 3000.  I've used it a handful of times throughout the years, most recently a few weeks ago.

When one already has the entire music collection hooked up to the MasterLink network via BeoPort, docks simply don't make much sense at all.

As the sheep stated it can be viewed on TVs throughout the house, does that imply Masterlink connectivity?

It will attach to the main room set and, as it works via PUC, it will behave just like any other source connected to the main set. The ML works via the TV.

Razlaw, the only way to get the ipod dock view on multiple TV's is with RF video distribution. While common with ROW B&O TV's, it  is only available with a limited number of US spec BeoVisions. In your set-up the BV7 supports RF video distribution, but not the BV10.

Really think it's Beo6 ! 🤒