mbee wrote:

Before being compatible with bluetooth, Google home was already compatible with Chromecast... Sooo... It was already possible to control any Beoplay/Essence/Core device with "better than bluetooth" audio with your voice. I'm sending deezer/TuneIn to my Essence MKII and my beoplay A9 (and "joining" from the BV8-40) from my Google Home mini without any kind of problem for weeks (since I got the home mini in fact)

Now that Deezer is supported on the Amazon Echo, I enabled Deezer and streamed Deezer music to the Moment via bluetooth. It worked. However, it did not show the metadata on the Moment like it does when you (Lyle)  streamed from Google Home. Why is that?

Lyle Clarke wrote:

We would need to investigate to answer exactly and even then, the fix would lie elsewhere in the chain. Some Bluetooth implementations only have audio and control, others include text metadata. The ecosystem provider typically includes the text metadata if their device is intended to be app controlled. If they do this following the Bluetooth standards then we can pick it up and show it on our interfaces.

I was prepared to add a Google Home if necessary even though I already have Amazon Echo. I was excited to learn that Amazon Echo now supports Deezer and hoped that maybe B&O would be partnered with Echo as well in the future features.

I just saw on the BeoIntegration site a rather enthusiastic and extensive guide on how to use voice control with Google Home. The guide was dated January 2018. The guide described ways to use Chromecast and to also have Google Home paired with a B&O device. However, what was absent was a discussion on the QUALITY of sound in various setups. As much as I like a good interface, B&O to me is all about the quality of sound. There are many considerations here: bluetooth, chrome, and Deezer FLAC. Lyle, perhaps you could make a suggestion to the author of that B&O guide to provide some suggestions as to how to get the best sound quality from these connections?

Lyle, you put SO MUCH hard work into perfecting the Moment interface. It's a travesty to see B&O now discontinuing it. For some people, an iPhone interface is fine. However, for me, I need to completely disconnect from my phone once I'm home. That's why I love the Moment interface. If the Moment interface is no longer being implemented in successor products, then the next best interface for me is voice control. I hope to see B&O develop this, but it's essential that the implementation is in a way that takes full advantage of the superior sound quality of B&O speakers.

I have now also a Goggle Home Mini and trying to start a cast (e.g. Spotify) on my Essence MKII, is set as the default speaker in the Hoogle Home app. Mini confirms my voice command but Essence is not starting the sound. Even though I can see in the Beo Remote app, that Essence is switching to Chromcast as source.

Has anyone a similar setup working at home?

stampfki wrote:

I have now also a Goggle Home Mini and trying to start a cast (e.g. Spotify) on my Essence MKII, is set as the default speaker in the Hoogle Home app. Mini confirms my voice command but Essence is not starting the sound. Even though I can see in the Beo Remote app, that Essence is switching to Chromcast as source.

Has anyone a similar setup working at home?

beojeff wrote:

I just saw on the BeoIntegration site a rather enthusiastic and extensive guide on how to use voice control with Google Home. The guide was dated January 2018. The guide described ways to use Chromecast and to also have Google Home paired with a B&O device. However, what was absent was a discussion on the QUALITY of sound in various setups. As much as I like a good interface, B&O to me is all about the quality of sound. There are many considerations here: bluetooth, chrome, and Deezer FLAC. Lyle, perhaps you could make a suggestion to the author of that B&O guide to provide some suggestions as to how to get the best sound quality from these connections?

Lyle, you put SO MUCH hard work into perfecting the Moment interface. It's a travesty to see B&O now discontinuing it. For some people, an iPhone interface is fine. However, for me, I need to completely disconnect from my phone once I'm home. That's why I love the Moment interface. If the Moment interface is no longer being implemented in successor products, then the next best interface for me is voice control. I hope to see B&O develop this, but it's essential that the implementation is in a way that takes full advantage of the superior sound quality of B&O speakers.

elephant wrote:

I could not find the beointegration google Home guide ...

Could you provide a link please ?

Knowledge base / Help files /

CB wrote:

Knowledge base / Help files / Bang & Olufsen and Google Home