Bang & Olufsen app 3.5 beta is out

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Which is perfectly ok!

It just adds to the fact that this ‘widget update’ works differently in different use cases.

MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

Which is perfectly ok!

It just adds to the fact that this ‘widget update’ works differently in different use cases.

MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

I installed the widget on my iPhone. There it seems to work correct.

But in my eyes it is even more useless than on my iPad. Because on my iPhone it opens the setting page of the selected audio speaker. I used this page once when I set up my new loudspeaker. And when everything is running smooth I never use this page.
For what reason do I need a widget to jump to page hopefully I never need ??? 

Or does the developers assume that technical problems with their products occur regularly and that the setting pages are therefore by far the most important?

Or does the widget on my iPhone is working incorrect, too?

Alsfeld wrote:

Or does the widget on my iPhone is working incorrect, too?

The widget is working as expected on your iPhone.

That said, Mr Andersen is looking for ideas from the Beoworlders about what useful widgets would be.

The current attempt is .... an attempt

Location: Brittany - France

My B&O Icons:

Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beotime.png Beotime.png
Beosound-Moment.png Beosound-Moment.png
Beoplay-P6.png Beoplay-P6.png
Beoplay-M5.png Beoplay-M5.png
Beoplay-M3.png Beoplay-M3.png
Beoplay-H3.png Beoplay-H3.png
Beoplay-Beosound1.png Beoplay-Beosound1.png
Beoplay-A6.png Beoplay-A6.png
Beoplay-A1.png Beoplay-A1.png
Beomaster.png Beomaster.png
Beolab-18.png Beolab-18.png
Beogram-400x.png Beogram-400x.png

Then the icon should at least link to the currently playing screen. That would be from my viewpoint more logic.

Alsfeld wrote:

Then the icon should at least link to the currently playing screen. That would be from my viewpoint more logic.

Imho I think that isn't.

The widget directs you to the same page as when you've selected it from the main page in the app. It gives you both the status at the bottom and the option to choose which source or multilink you want.

 

Location: Utrecht

Quite a challenge to achieve "Less is More" while having the Beovirus.
Beobuddy wrote:

The widget directs you to the same page as when you've selected it from the main page in the app. It gives you both the status at the bottom and the option to choose which source or multilink you want.

Not on an iPhone where the product page you are redirected to by the widget does not expose the status nor the now playing controls at the bottom like on an iPad unless the app is already working in the background .... a bug in guess

Location: Brittany - France

My B&O Icons:

Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beotime.png Beotime.png
Beosound-Moment.png Beosound-Moment.png
Beoplay-P6.png Beoplay-P6.png
Beoplay-M5.png Beoplay-M5.png
Beoplay-M3.png Beoplay-M3.png
Beoplay-H3.png Beoplay-H3.png
Beoplay-Beosound1.png Beoplay-Beosound1.png
Beoplay-A6.png Beoplay-A6.png
Beoplay-A1.png Beoplay-A1.png
Beomaster.png Beomaster.png
Beolab-18.png Beolab-18.png
Beogram-400x.png Beogram-400x.png

Tried that and indeed, only with the app in the background you get the status and sources. Without the app in the background you need to close the page and re-open it again to obtain the status and sources.

Location: Utrecht

Quite a challenge to achieve "Less is More" while having the Beovirus.

Theater looks like a bug to me. 

On my iPhone running iOS14 beta, I go to the widget and click on Core icon and it takes me to the Core controls.

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