I used a Harmony One to control some B&O.

If the product is on their list on the web it will work.

Ralf

PS: sorry, not IR/RF etc. knowledge, just plain user experience ;-)

Thanks very much for the responses. Still not sure though whether or not the Beo4 emits infrared or RF!

At least the Harmony units work though and that's what matters.

🙂

Kokomo wrote:

Thanks very much for the responses. Still not sure though whether or not the Beo4 emits infrared or RF!

It's IR, just as any regular remote. The carrier frequency however is mostly unique to B&O, which prevents many universal / learning remotes from being used, if they are not prepared for it.

This question seems to recur every few months. I won't go into a long-winded post, try searching the site.

You will find that Logitech Harmony remotes work just fine with BL1000 and ^ coded Beo.

Regardless of what the Logitech support site may say, they will also work with earlier (pre BL1000) controlled Beo with some massaging.

In short, my experience is that any IR controlled Beo will work with Harmony.

Your ultimate satisfaction will be determined by how much time/effort you put into the configuration -a process which is lightyears ahead of configuring the Beo5/6.

Kokomo wrote:

I may be mistaken, but I always thought that B&O used RF and not infrared which, if the case, then Harmony remotes are useless with B&O, so I'm totally confused.

Can someone clarify things for me please? 

Thanks.

The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of all possible frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. IR and RF falls into this. B&O uses IR but at a higher frequency than standard consumer IR and that is where people get mixd up. Standard IR is 38kHz, B&O uses 455kHz, the RF in the UK is usually 433MHz,  totally different frequencies.

So to clarify - B&O is defiitely IR but not all learning/prgrammable remotes can send the B&O codes.

Take a look