Beotime - an alarm clock with a secret menu?

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Hi Beoworlders,

I would be interested to hear what you think about Beotime - Was it B&O's craziest product, or a stroke of design genius? (and did you know it has a secret menu?)

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The beotime was great. It was a thing that made the difference between B&O and other AV companies; a bit of jewellery. Not that we’ve ever used ours....

I use mine every day, or at least every day I want to get up on time.

I love the design of it and it still receives very positive comments from anyone that sees it for the first time. I only use it as an alarm clock. I don’t use it to control any other products.

I will be devastated if/when it ever dies.
Duels wrote:

I use mine every day, or at least every day I want to get up on time.

I love the design of it and it still receives very positive comments from anyone that sees it for the first time. I only use it as an alarm clock. I don’t use it to control any other products.

I will be devastated if/when it ever dies.

I agree completely. Use mine every day I need to get up early and don’t know what I would replace it with when it dies.

Me too, we have two (our room and my daughters) and use it every day, turn ons the radio and the light to its lowest setting. By continually pressing the middle button every thing including the light turns off. Because it is easier to set and on/ff then the ML version.

A second "alarm(play timer)" is used over the ML where on some days the radio in the kitchen turns on just before we get downstairs.

 

 

I use mine everyday.

And I have one BNIB just in case....

Barry
I bought one a few years ago and it still could do some functions with the NL Avant mk1

Not long after the bottom button (on the square) went. You can still press it but it takes longer to respond and doesn’t have that lovely tactile sort of click the other 3 sides have

Not wanting to get a warranty repair on yet another B&O product I just let it sat there. The batteries run out and I don’t use it as an alarm and I don’t use it anymore.

It’s on the shelf in my office.

It looks nice though.
Barry Santini wrote:

I use mine everyday.

And I have one BNIB just in case....

Barry

Lucky you!

I use mine everyday.  I only use it for a clock .

It is imo a very B&O product. 

Beotime and BL12s were the last new things I bought from B&O.

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We use our Beotime in the bedroom as an alarm clock every day. It activates radio DR P8 (Jazz Radio) with this unique ringtone, which sounds very wake up friendly in my ears. It also starts a macro on my BLGW to activate the light in the bedroom with the sunrise slow function. The sunrise feature works with LC2 and also with a KNX system, which I use.

Btw the ringtone of the Beotime was created by the danish Jazz musician/composer Kenneth Knudsen.

http://www.kenneth-knudsen.dk/

 

Stefan

 

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