Help needed: installing Beolink active

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Dear all, 
I am new to this forum and wonder if someone could help me out:
I try to install a Beolink active in a link room via Masterlink. Currently a Beolab 3500 is also installed in the same room und is up and running, but i would like to exchange Beolab 3500 against a BeoSound Shape driven by a Beolink active.  Active is in Mode 6 and beolab 3500 in Mode 0 (= no reception of ir Signals). For test purposes I have connected a Beolab 4000 to the active.
The active turns on and also Beolab 4000 light turns green but after a few seconds it automatically turns off. No Sound is coming. This happens both, when using beo 4 and/or the ir eye of the active module.
As a test i connected a Beolab 2000 to the Masterlink plug and this one works. 
So i assume the Masterlink cable is correctly connected to the main System, which in my case is beovision 10 and beocenter 2.

What is going wrong here? Any suggestion is much appreciated. 

Did you try to connect the BL4000 to another system in the house?

Are you sure that it works?

MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

Yes it works  - it is my rear loudspeaker in the main system.

Rolli wrote:

This happens both, when using beo 4 and/or the ir eye of the active module.
What does this mean?
What type nr. is the active? 1616? 1636?
What is the Software Version?
What command do you use to activate the active? A.AUX? TV? DTV? 
Ralf

 

My B&O Icons:

BeoCenter-9500.png BeoCenter-9500.png
Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beovision-11.png Beovision-11.png
Beosound.png Beosound.png
Beoplay-V1.png Beoplay-V1.png
Beoplay-H95.png Beoplay-H95.png
Beoplay-E8.png Beoplay-E8.png
Beoplay-A1.png Beoplay-A1.png
Living Room: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-2 (Center), Beolab 9 (Fronts), Beolab 8000 (Rears), Screen: Sony KD-85XH9096
Home Cinema: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-4 (Center), Beolab 9 (Fronts), Beolab 4000 (Rears). Projector: Sony VPL-HW55
Home Office: BeoVision 11-46, 4 x Beolab 3, BeoCenter 9300 (BLC 1611/ML/NL)
Bedroom: Sony KD-65XH9077, Beosound Essence MK II with Beolab 6002 and Beolab 11 (all white, wall-mounted)
Dart Room: BeoPlay V1-40 on floor stand
Guest Room: BeoVision 7-40 MK IV, Beolab 7-2, BeoSound Ouverture

It is a 1636 with sw 1.6.

activation beo 4: Radio (BC2)

activation ir: „Play“

Are you sure, that you have used the PL output to connect the BL4000 (and not the PC input)?

MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

Yes - it is connected to the pl socket.

Had the same idea, MM.

Can you play a source connected to the PC socket?

Ralf

My B&O Icons:

BeoCenter-9500.png BeoCenter-9500.png
Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beovision-11.png Beovision-11.png
Beosound.png Beosound.png
Beoplay-V1.png Beoplay-V1.png
Beoplay-H95.png Beoplay-H95.png
Beoplay-E8.png Beoplay-E8.png
Beoplay-A1.png Beoplay-A1.png
Living Room: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-2 (Center), Beolab 9 (Fronts), Beolab 8000 (Rears), Screen: Sony KD-85XH9096
Home Cinema: Beosystem 4, Beolab 7-4 (Center), Beolab 9 (Fronts), Beolab 4000 (Rears). Projector: Sony VPL-HW55
Home Office: BeoVision 11-46, 4 x Beolab 3, BeoCenter 9300 (BLC 1611/ML/NL)
Bedroom: Sony KD-65XH9077, Beosound Essence MK II with Beolab 6002 and Beolab 11 (all white, wall-mounted)
Dart Room: BeoPlay V1-40 on floor stand
Guest Room: BeoVision 7-40 MK IV, Beolab 7-2, BeoSound Ouverture

Good idea Ralf, i will see if I can  find an adapter for my phone and check PC Input tonight. 

For the time being:  Is there a special sequence how to  power up the system (e.g. TV first and link room thereafter ... or power up active first and plug in masterlink  thereafter .... or something else?)

Also: i joined the masterlink „like for like“. I somehow remember that zwo wires could (should ?) be joined together: pink and white/blue. Could this be a the problem? 

Thanks for your support. 

You know that you’ll need a special cable for this - not just an ordinary 5-pin DIN adapter!!!

I understood that you already have a ML network running

and

if the ML-plug works for a BS2000, it is not likely that the fault is in the ML connection.

MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

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