Guy wrote:

After pressing LINK, the LINK indication shows up as soon as a source button is pressed.  The source has to be pressed within about 3 seconds of LINK.  If I then press LINK again, the Source indicator (eg SAT) disappears but LINK is still visible.  The remote does transmit when LINK is pressed on its own (I checked with  a camera).

Yes, even without IR contact.

It sure does not work with my mod ! Thank you very much for your feedback !

I'm good for another few hours parsing the display data trying to find the issue !

I'm happy to announce that the LINK indicator(s) are now properly working, and so should the CONTROL indicator.

Thank you very much Guy for your help on this issue !

^ Great news - looks good to me, and I am happy to help!

I am also very interested if you manage to produce a kit to modify broken remotes.  I have just noticed that the right hand side of my 'daily use' BL5000's display is starting to fail.  I still have a mint spare in a box somewhere, but would be very keen to modify the other two that I have with totally failed displays.

Just for info, I found this old thread which talked about different versions of BL5000.  It also talks a little bit about the CONTROL function.

/forum/imported-unmapped/beosound-3200-festplatte#post-2190752

EDIT:  To check the SW version of BL5000 press SHIFT then MENU then the DOWN arrow.  Mine is at VER 2.2

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Hi Carolpa!  Can you tell me the SW versions of your two remotes? (Assuming the displays work!)

Thank you again for all the additional information.

My BL5000 SW is VER2.0.

At the time I cannot assert that my mod will work with all BL5000 SW version, so I'm thinking it maybe best that I perform this modification myself on remotes with a SW version not yet confirmed to work, that way I can fix my firmware immediately to get it working.

I am about to go on vacation, so I will be quiet for about a week, but don't worry I'll keep working on this when I'm back 🙂

CLOCK: sw 2.0

CONTROL: sw 1.3

Carolpa wrote:

CLOCK: sw 2.0

CONTROL: sw 1.3

Many thanks.  My other CONTROL one is at SW 1.3 but it's in a box somewhere and I can't dig it out.. 

I was wondering if my SW2.2 CONTROL one may actually be a CLOCK version with replacement lower buttons because I cannot get CONTROL to work with either my BC9500 or BC2300 - but perhaps these Beocenters are not CONTROL compatible.  Anyone know?