Hi Tony,
Please confirm I've understood you well:
What you did is an IR blaster sending Beo4 streams, running a little web server you can control over network?
[Tony]
Yes, that is correct (as originally stated when this thread was started). It is just a WiFi controlled Beo4 emulator.
If it is so, I got a couple of questions for you:
- Could you add more controls. Like source selection, CD/track selection, Channel Selection etc… Would this be easy or complicated.
[Tony]
This would be “easy", given you have the right control sequences by extending the beo4_cmds table. I did have some problems (see Caveats/Issues), so more experimentation is needed.
- From where do you take (lear) the IR controls? (related to the previous question).
[Tony]
From various places. Anywhere I could actually. It was hard as there isn’t just one released reference. B&O doesn’t seem to want this information distributed. Many build receivers, and reverse engineer their RCs. In any case, my only goal was to turn the Ouverture on and off remotely, and wasn’t interested in a complete Beo4 replacement (at least not initially, but I do think it would be fun to keep extending it).
If you just search, you’ll find all kinds of references, and similar work done long ago. Here is just a few that I found:
- Could this work with non B&O equipment? And mixed brand (like Samsung TV with B&O sound system😕)?
[Tony]
I don’t see why not. It would be a matter of re-configuring the RMT feature to use a different carrier frequency, and probably a different representation of pulse code modulation (bi-phasic coding, pulse distance coding, etc.). A different emitter would be needed (or one that can handle a range of frequencies, depending on how many other non-beo devices you wanted to control). An app button that switches the display to a different device would be used to initiate the reconfiguration, or each app button could uniquely indicate the device, etc. For me, everything I have now already comes with an app and already has WiFi support, so only my antiquated B&O Ouverture was an issue for me. But yes, I think such other projects are totally doable.
I feel like they could be very funny and useful things to do with this, dont know precisely what just now, but it opens possibilities.
Thank you.
[Tony]
Yes, I totally agree. The device also includes Bluetooth and BLE, as well as a variety of physical buses, so we are only limited by our imaginations! ;) Good luck!
