Automating a BeoSound 2500 with Amazon Alexa

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Hello All, 

Recently I decided to get an Amazon Alexa and wanted to make it control my B&O Beosound 2500. I did a quick search and I found the BroadLink RM3 Mini. I got it and when I tried to program the remote in, the app didn't recognize that there was any ir signal being received. I tried with a remote from my tv and it detected in the app perfectly. Do any of you know how to link an Alexa to a Beosound 2500? 

My guess is that the Audio Terminal remote I use is on a different IR wavelength than what is currently being used today. 

 

Thanks, 

Noah 

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Hi,

 

the IR wavelength is not the problem in our case but the IR carrier frequency.

The most IR remotes use a crrier freuency of 36 or 38 KHz, some use 56 KHz. B&O used 455 KHz as the carrier frequency which far hgher than the usual used. The Broadlink receiver is most probably only useful for the 36 -38 KHz range, so no luck this way.

 

Location: Near Munich

My B&O Icons:

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Hello. Thanks for your reply. Would there me a way I could mod my Broadlink by putting in a different IR emitter/receiver?

-Noah

Bang & Olufsen Addict
RL60.2, Penta MKIII, 2 Pair BeoLab 2500, S45.2

BeoMaster 4500, 5500

BeoSound 2000, A1 Gen 2. 2x BeoSystem 2500

Beoplay HX, H9i

I hope someone gives you the answer you are looking for, but two possibilities popped into my head:

(1) My Logitech Harmony Home Hub, despite not being able to accept/input B&O codes, is able to output them, when you choose, say, a Beovision from its library of pre-programmed devices and drive the TV using the app's virtual buttons.  Maybe, if you're lucky, a similar IR output chip/strategy was chosen by BroadLink and their library has been programmed up for you?  (If you're already this far in the setup, probably not, but it's worth at least asking the question: do they have any pre-programmed B&O gear?)  For that matter, you could just switch from BroadLink to the Harmony, but that requires finding and buying a discontinued product and reading support threads associating Logitech remotes with Alexa skills.

(2) www.lintronic.dk makes converters so your B&O remote can control non-B&O IR products  -- and vice versa, which is what you want.  You would tell the BroadLink RM that you are using a Sony (or whatever) receiver & CD and tell the Lintronic TT to accept Sony codes as input and generate B&O codes as output.  Given their respective prices, it's sort of putting the cart before the horse,,. but if your hacking efforts don't pay off, you have a backup.  (For that matter, Lintronic has a support document that describes how they use Alexa directly, but it seems to require receiving e-mails or SMS as the control stream?)

Hello. I may go with the harmony hub as I only need it to output to my system. Could you send me a link to the product on eBay. Im looking for one under 40$. 

Thanks, 
Noah  

Bang & Olufsen Addict
RL60.2, Penta MKIII, 2 Pair BeoLab 2500, S45.2

BeoMaster 4500, 5500

BeoSound 2000, A1 Gen 2. 2x BeoSystem 2500

Beoplay HX, H9i

There isn made for broad link. Would this hub work?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/124860644985?hash=item1d12463e79%3Ag%3AxbYAAOSwchBhH

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Bang & Olufsen Addict
RL60.2, Penta MKIII, 2 Pair BeoLab 2500, S45.2

BeoMaster 4500, 5500

BeoSound 2000, A1 Gen 2. 2x BeoSystem 2500

Beoplay HX, H9i

To ensure you aren't "taken for a ride" by a seller substituting the older, almost-identical "Harmony Link" (which Logitech completely replaced and sent out new models *for free* to existing owners!) from their waste bin, you want Harmony Hub model # 915-000238.  (The link you posted had some random model #, but I saw a listing for 915-000238 for less than $40, brand-new.)

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