Millemissen wrote:

The problem about putting one of your BEO4's (that is if you have more than one) into Link-Mode is that they hardly ever stay in the same place.

Often one Beo4 is taken to another room, because 'you just had that one in your hand'.

They get messed up - and your wife (or the kids or the guests) don't understand 'why it doesn't work as supposed'.

MM

There is a tv - and there is a BV.

In the meantime, I have finalized the setup and cabling.

The PM Aux IN is now connected to the BC Aux OUT.

The PL from the Playmaker is connected with a RJ45-DIN (female) adapter to the Pentas. It is interesting that the Penta displays are stil getting some signal from the PM and display "random" information. Could be A-TAPE2 or LOAD... I was expecting that the displays would be off, when connected to the PM.

To solve this problem, I disconnected PIN7/8 from the Powerlink plug (which is connected to the PM through the adapter), extended the cable for PIN 7/8 and soldered a DIN plug to the 2 wires. This DIN plug is now connected to the PL out of the Beocenter. The displays work now as expected and I even get the correct source information on the Penta displays.

I still need to decide if I go for a Android or Apple device. I'd prefer Android and I really like the new Lenovo Yoga 8 (http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/tablets/ideatab/yoga/yoga-8/).

However, there are some remarks on this forum that DLNA is less stable than Airplay and with Android I'd still need to get an App to access the music on my NAS and I am not clear what the best app would be.

Fine that you got it working.

But this efford is all for the sake of seeing 'what' on the Penta-display??

BeoMegaMan described the easiest solution in his first post.

With that you would have been able to use the BC2500 as always (with all display functions).

To use the Playmaker sources you would have to push A-AUX on the Beo4 (with the Penta display showing A-AUX) and then simply choose what you want to hear from your Smartphone/iDevice...

The Playmaker autoswitches the (3) inputs - no need for any Beo4 control for that.

All volumen control goes to the BC2500.

You could even hide the PM if that is wanted.

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If you go for the Android solution, you would (in either case) need a DLNA compatible app like 'Bubble upnp' or 'Skifta'. It would depend on how stable your server (DLNA server on a PC/NAS) is, if you will be happy with that. Android and AirPlay aren't the best of friends!

Using an iDevice/AirPlay would give you a stable solution (depending on your router settings) - and you could airplay services like Spotify and internet radio with ease.

There are DLNA app's for iDevices as well, like PlugPlayer and 8Player - this way you can also access your local (DLNA-based) media.

Greetings Millemissen

The advantage, in the the BC->PM->Loudspeaker setup,  is that the BC does not need to be turned on all the time, when the PM is playing. And, when I turn on wireless playback, from WHATEVERDevice, I don't need to activate the BC. And when I turn on CD/Radio, the auto-sensing of the PM, takes care of activating the loudspeakers. Perfect, but slightly more cabling 🙂

beotkn wrote:

The PL from the Playmaker is connected with a RJ45-DIN (female) adapter to the Pentas. It is interesting that the Penta displays are stil getting some signal from the PM and display "random" information. Could be A-TAPE2 or LOAD... I was expecting that the displays would be off, when connected to the PM.

To solve this problem, I disconnected PIN7/8 from the Powerlink plug (which is connected to the PM through the adapter), extended the cable for PIN 7/8 and soldered a DIN plug to the 2 wires. This DIN plug is now connected to the PL out of the Beocenter. The displays work now as expected and I even get the correct source information on the Penta displays.

That's brilliant!