This is great news. Thanks and well done!

Has the new PCB arrived and any update for us?

Has there been any progress in the background and anything I can be helpful with?

Just pulling this one up in hope for any news :)

Espen wrote:

Just pulling this one up in hope for any news :)

Same here! I am trying to get the Lintronic box to work over my MCL system, and I want to connect it also to my Pi that is already sitting next to my beovision as a Kodi media center. But it is not really working well for me so to feed the ML/MCL directly into the pi and vice versa is more and more favorable!

Thanks for all the work done so far

Hi all,

sorry for my little longer absence here.
For some strange reasons I didn't receive any "new post notification" mails from beoworld and I only randomly look into the active topics.

The current project status is still that we can successfully receive and transmit data from and to the ML data bus.
The first PCB had problems with wrong ML RJ45 pin connections and a very difficult to solder negative DCDC converter.

At the moment my problem is that I'm missing some time for continuing this project.  
Good news is that currently I am working hard on a different project which could be easily combined with the final ML PCB and make an even better solution in the end.
As some of you might know I never was really a friend of all that Raspberry Pi stuff... 
So when I have the time to continue the work on the ML PCB chances are good that there will be an exclusive connector for my own single-board-computer instead of generic pin headers. More infos on this and some words on why I think using a not a Pi is better to come soon...

Of course the idea is still to make the ML PCB and SW fully open source with all PCB design files available. So that people are able to tweak the design and the SW for their own needs. 

BR,
BeoMotion. 

Hello BeoMotion,

I'm also interested in two or three pcbs.

How do you connect them to the RPi? flying wires?

kind regards
_beast_

Hi,

yes, the initial plan was to connect it via single jumper cables.
The new version I have in mind can be connected using a single FPC cable.
I will come back in about 2 to 3 weeks with more news :-)

BR,
BeoMotion. 

When it's more flexible using single jumper cables, please stay with them. :-)

I'm REALLY happy when we have a small simple box that can pass "light" and "control" infrared commands onto the ML bus as it will be a GREAT benefit for the home automation fun for places where a B&O speaker or audio system would be out of place.

I'm excited to test and see the final product!

If you need support please let us know!

At the moment I'm discovering that some people have difficulties with jumper cables.
It is easily possible to count pin headers in the wrong direction, swapping colors, ...

For a different project I'm currently engineering a single-board-computer from scratch. 
It has a nice size, native support for ethernet, WiFi, BT and some other nice things.
It also comes with a special audio connector featuring two serial ports and two completely independent audio interfaces.

This is excellent for building a ML bridge or anything else that needs two independent ML sockets. 
Due to the demands of the other project this special SBC comes with small pitch FPC connectors.
This is the reason I have in mind to make the ML PCB plug-n-play with that machine. 

BR,
BeoMotion.