I bought a 2nd hand Halo for a great price, but I cannot get it to to connect any of my Beosounds. I was able to upgrade the software, and the B&O app can see and configure it. However, no matter what device or devices I tell it to control, it gets stuck on not being able to connect to the first one. I have a broad mix of devices, some wired, some not, some Mozart, some not. Although, I have not tried controlling each device individually because this requires a reset and reconfigure to get rid of the first device in the list that it cannot talk to. I have tried each class of device individually (wired vs. Mozart vs. non-Mozart).
I am running an older Netgear Orbi mesh which some here have complained about, but with fixed IP addresses for Beosounds, it has been pretty solid. I know that Unifi hardware seems to be the go to solution for networking issues, but it also seems optimized for having hardwired backhauls. Installing one or two hardwired backhauls would make my very cheap Halo quite expensive, and everything currently works (most of the time) but the Halo. I’m not against upgrading the wifi as it’s getting older and does misbehave every once in a while, but I would be looking at a mesh. My house and yard are too big for a single access point.
While this looks like a network problem, I’m used to network errors being sporadic or applicable to some devices and not others. To have all the devices, except my phone unreachable is odd (granted B&O tends to be odd in their own special way). I saw a similar post from ~1 year ago on the remotes forum where someone had this problem and was able to fix it, but the post didn’t provide much in the way of solution details. I did post my question there, but there’s even less traffic there so I thought I’d try the main forum. I’m looking for any pointers for troubleshooting or known network configuration issues.
Thanks in advance.
I am running an older Netgear Orbi mesh which some here have complained about, but with fixed IP addresses for Beosounds, it has been pretty solid. I know that Unifi hardware seems to be the go to solution for networking issues, but it also seems optimized for having hardwired backhauls. Installing one or two hardwired backhauls would make my very cheap Halo quite expensive, and everything currently works (most of the time) but the Halo. I’m not against upgrading the wifi as it’s getting older and does misbehave every once in a while, but I would be looking at a mesh. My house and yard are too big for a single access point.
While this looks like a network problem, I’m used to network errors being sporadic or applicable to some devices and not others. To have all the devices, except my phone unreachable is odd (granted B&O tends to be odd in their own special way). I saw a similar post from ~1 year ago on the remotes forum where someone had this problem and was able to fix it, but the post didn’t provide much in the way of solution details. I did post my question there, but there’s even less traffic there so I thought I’d try the main forum. I’m looking for any pointers for troubleshooting or known network configuration issues.
Thanks in advance.
