In the Idea Catalogue you can read:

‘Set it up as a monitor and download the IR codes matching the TV manufacturer to BeoSystem 4.

If none of the existing codes are working, they can be made by you using PUCtool3

or alternatively send the remote to your local PUC representative to learn the IR codes.’

This means, that it is possible - and I don’t see, why a PUC for the LG’s should not be made.

You will have to contact a (good) B&O dealer!

Please post the result - I guess many will be interested.

MM

Ah, that’s useful. Wonder how I can get hold of PUC Tool 3!

Well according to B&O Winchester, the tool is no longer available to dealers and gave me B&O’s support number. Incidentally a guy at B&O Windsor flat out refused that you could use a PUC to switch a tv on or off! 

Anyhow, I’ve logged a call also with B&O, but I must say I’m not hopeful. 

The route that I think I’ll try is to use a raspberry with LIRC to read one of the TV PUCs and use a hdmi-cec injector to switch the TV on or off. Painful, but then without good support from the manufacturer’s supply chain, you need to rely on your own resources (and this forum). 

B&O has not been very active in updating the BeoSystem 4 PUC directory. There are only a handful of TVs listed. Sony is not even in the list. There IS an LG tv, but maybe it uses different IR codes? Samsung is very good about using the same generic IR codes. So I always buy Samsung screens.

I believe that BeoCare has more PUC entries that they don't provide in the BeoSystem 4 database. For example, they sent me the codes for several projectors that were not listed in the database.

If all else fails, you could use the open collectors for CINEMA control to trigger a Lintronic code-coverter to send out the IR signal to turn your tv on/off. I have a post somewhere on this site with instructions on how to fashion a cable.

beojeff wrote:

 Samsung is very good about using the same generic IR codes. So I always buy Samsung screens.

On a sidenote:

I’d like to see how a Samsung QLED 8K Q900R performs when upscaling what comes from a BeoSystem 4.

For obvious reasons Samsung must focus on the upscaling engine with this tv.

I recently saw the tv (85”) in a store - it was pretty amazing.

MM

I don't have the most recent LG OLED but the IR codes I would imagine have not changed. Yes their official remotes use a proprietary bluetooth remote, they still have IR receiver.

Even an old LG IR remote does work with my 2016 LG set, try one of the IR codes. Personally I use Logitech Harmony which supports basically everything and has very handy programmable macros for sequencing.

Hi,

I tried the only LG screen they had in the database - and that didn't' work - I suspect they changed the remote codes when they went to the pointer remote.

@beojeff. I think I have two options really - both injecting CEC codes into the HDMI cable (that's how I managed the screen with the Beosystem 3). Either through the serial port again or IR to CEC - both need a raspberry, but I've used one like this for almost a year now and it is quite stable. The beauty of the Beosystem 3 was that you could tell the system what screen was connected - so I knew I'd get the serial commands - as there doesn't seem to be any option on BS4, I'll hope that they send codes anyway (though unlikely). Either way (and maybe B&O come through with a PUC) I should get it to work.

While waiting for B&O, I went ahead and used a Samsung screen control, into a raspberry and used HDMI-CEC to switch the TV on and off (using a phase-eight dongle for CEC injection).

It’s reliable and less wires, so i’m not sure that even if B&O come back with a LG PUC, that I’ll change to that.