ebnrob wrote:

baronvejrup wrote:

Thanks - that is acutally done in the BeoLink Gateway - but it was triggered by the My Buttons on the BeoSound Level

Brilliant! Are you running the forthcoming NL software update on the level for the BLGW to see it?

I love the essence remote on the wall.. Are you using it as a music controller or as a macro trigger on the gateway? I have a table top version connected on BT to my essence mk2 (for music control) but appears to go to sleep ignoring the first press if not used for a while. New batteries makes no difference. I'd love to have more through the house working as light switches to my BLGW, but having to wake it first makes it a no-go. Perhaps IR mode is more reliable? Cheers, Rob.

Hi EBNROB

No the new software for the BeoSound Level isnt out yet, so it is not integrated with my BeoLink Gateway - The my buttons on the BS Level is stored as GVA commands as is "Turn on light in livingroom" and then it sends the command to the Philips Hue Gateway -> then the BLGW picks up that the light over the diningroom is on and triggers a command in the back to light up the cabinets. (makes sense?)

ebnrob wrote:

I have a table top version connected on BT to my essence mk2 (for music control) but appears to go to sleep ignoring the first press if not used for a while. New batteries makes no difference.

I have exactly the same experience since I purchased an Essence remote for a bit of fun. It doesn't seem to stay awake and goes to sleep really quickly. I bought it to control my BeoSound 2 which is downstairs in the living room. The Essence is at the top of the stairs by the light switch. Is this how it is supposed to work? Surely not as it makes it a pretty pointless controller? I have also tried changing the batteries to no avail? Any help from more experienced users on the Essence operation would be appreciated. Can you stop it from going to sleep for example?

baronvejrup wrote:

The my buttons on the BS Level is stored as GVA commands as is "Turn on light in livingroom" and then it sends the command to the Philips Hue Gateway -> then the BLGW picks up that the light over the diningroom is on and triggers a command in the back to light up the cabinets. (makes sense?)

Whoa that's nifty! I have to say the idea of triggering google voice commands from the buttons is smart. Can the 'My buttons' be set to other commands that are non-google voice or is the whole Level system currently reliant on google services? 

Cheers.

The Beonic Man wrote:

ebnrob wrote:

I have a table top version connected on BT to my essence mk2 (for music control) but appears to go to sleep ignoring the first press if not used for a while. New batteries makes no difference.

I have exactly the same experience since I purchased an Essence remote for a bit of fun. It doesn't seem to stay awake and goes to sleep really quickly. I bought it to control my BeoSound 2 which is downstairs in the living room. The Essence is at the top of the stairs by the light switch. Is this how it is supposed to work? Surely not as it makes it a pretty pointless controller? I have also tried changing the batteries to no avail? Any help from more experienced users on the Essence operation would be appreciated. Can you stop it from going to sleep for example?

I believe this is "as designed".  It seems fairly aggressive in going to sleep to save battery life.  Since it uses bluetooth, it needs to re-establish a connection every time it wakes up, and if it didn't go to sleep, it would eat batteries fairly quickly.  I'm not sure how the BeoRemote One works around this because I don't experience the same delay, but whatever...

I find that if I first twiddle the volume slightly, it wakes up and then I don't have any missed commands.

Question on the stored mybutton commands to trigger a GVA command. Is that same procedure as here with Level also already possible on the Halo?

With other words could i now already use a halo button  to trigger a Hue command through Google Home protocol? And if so can one button on halj combine light and music source command?

driehoek wrote:

Question on the stored mybutton commands to trigger a GVA command. Is that same procedure as here with Level also already possible on the Halo?

With other words could i now already use a halo button  to trigger a Hue command through Google Home protocol? And if so can one button on halj combine light and music source command?

I believe this is possible, provided you have one of two setups:

1) You have a GVA-B&O product (BS1/2 Gen2, Balance, A9 Mk4).

2) You have integrated a BLI or BLGW into Google Home, and have Halo-compatible products

Nice house you have Henrik 🙂 I really like what you did with the lights on the Beolab 5s!

Thanks @RichardIII