Are you sure that the BS9000 has not been set to A.OPT 0?  It does this automatically when no powerlink speakers are connected.

Try disconnecting ML (and the BL3500) and set the BS9000 to A.OPT 1 with the BL8000s connected. Then see if it is controllable directly by IR.

It may also be worth checking that your Beo4 is not in LINK MODE.  Have a look at page 92 of this manual: 

Thanks Guy, so therein lies an issue. The IR receiver on my 9000 has failed  which is a primary reason for wanting the 3500 to control it. I can't talk to the 9000 by remote. I wonder if there is a button combination that you can set the options from the onboard control panel of the 9000.

You mentioned 'many trials' that lead you to believe the IR board has failed - so can I assume that the trials included my two suggestions above?  I just wanted to be sure before looking for alternative control solutions!

From your description the system seems to be behaving as I would expect (albeit with IR board failure and/or as if BS9000 was in A.OPT 0.)

AFAIK in an ML system there is no way to control main room volume from a link room - but you said you have seen such a setup working before which is strange!

One solution could be to set up a Beolink Active 1636 in the same room as the BS9000.

Connect the Active to the BS9000 with ML cable, add an IR Sensor (hockey puck type) to the Active and also connect both BL8000s to the Active. Then you'd be controlling the whole thing as if from a link room.

Yes, been going on for a few weeks now. When I got the 9000 the seller said he hadn't used the remote. More's the point in that I think it didn't work. So I took my remote to a mates place and operated everything in his house perfectly. Then I bought his remote home and tried it on my 9000 to no effect. With the help of a few blokes here I tried a number of different programming options using my Beo4 but never once did I get a light flash to indicate my 9000 receives commands. I've since purchased another later model Beo4 and it's also the same. Recently checked both of my Beo4's on a 9000 Mark III and they all worked fine.

And today, by plugging in the ML cable between the 3500 and my 9000 Mark1, both of my remotes are working perfectly.

Do you think if I follow the instructions on P92 and input the code, that this won't mess up my current programming?

uzz32soarer wrote:

Do you think if I follow the instructions on P92 and input the code, that this won't mess up my current programming?

No, you are safe to try this as it does not effect the controlled equipment, only the remote.  Simply repeat the process to revert the Beo4 to normal. 

Carry out the procedure in another room to your B&O equipment if you don't want to inadvertently switch stuff on and off. 

Thanks Guy. So if you have a 3500 setup in another room, I was pretty sure that you can control the speaker volume in the main room as well as the 3500 volume. The 3500 User Guide alludes to this a anumber of times also.

On my two later model remotes I did the 2002 thing and both were already in Link Off mode. I turned them both on and then both off.

BUT...

On my older remote that come with the 9000, I go into config and then 2002 and nothing happens at all. Seems a different command is needed for the older remote.