Hello all, does anyone have experience with the BeoLiving intelligence?
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Beoliving Intelligence by khimo
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Yes use it daily to trigger macro”s on the beolink gateway.Alexa turn on bathroom, lights up and bs core playingMy favorite, ALEXA turn on goodnightLights go down to 1%, skylights will close, all stuff stops playing, beovisions, cores etc.I go slowly to bed and the lights turn of, except the night light of the little one, it turns to pink and stays at 1%😁.I am still looking at curtains and heating but I am almost there.It is one of the most convenient skills, no buttons just talk to Alexa.
Hello chucky,
I didn't mean the Khimo skills for Alexa. I mean the physical gateway...
It looks like Khimo is producing a gateway in cooperation with B&O and they claim it is the successor of BLGW....
That will be a welcome update. I love the blgw but the technology world moves so quickly it’s nice to have a dedicated group like khimo building and updating the new gateway device.
Khimo has always been behind the BLGW (for better or for worse). I find it odd that there is no reference to this new device on the BeoIntegration site, the B&O site, press releases, or even youtube. I wonder how this hardware is any improvement over the BLGW. It looks to me as if it might be a way to make the device more affordable and accessible in the "essential" mode for alexa control of just B&O devices. Yet, by paying a fee, we would get the expanded home automation control over 3rd party systems as we do in BLGW.
I downloaded the new BeoLiving iOS app. It seems t one the same as the BeoLink2 app.
The BeoLiving Intelligence skill for Alexa has been around for awhile and can allegedly work with the BLGW. I say "allegedly" because I could never get it to do anything that I want it to do!
Khimo states that the units are only sold through B&O dealerships. Does anyone know pricing details for Essential and Pro?
My dealer says Essential will be available for 979 euro. Not yet available for order. Pro-upgrade will retail at 659 USD payable to Khimo.
Update:
I'm having SOME limited success with BeoLiving Intelligence and the BLGW. For example, these commands to Alexa work:
"Alexa, turn off the living room TV."
"Alexa, turn off the kitchen TV."
However, Alexa gets confused with the command: "Alexa, change input to Apple TV on kitchen TV." Instead of switching to the matrix 2 input that has been labeled in the BLGW interface tab as "Apple TV," she instead changes to the matrix 1 input that has been labeled as "Cable TV." She completely refuses to understand the command "Alexa, change input to blu-ray on kitchen TV." While I could always dummy-down the label to something like "blue ray," I wouldn't want "blue ray" to show up as the source on my iOS app. Perhaps BeoLiving intelligence needs to add an option for a different command that could be used for Alexa so that we could have a dummied-down phonetic pronunciation that Alexa is able to understand.
My dealer says Essential will be available for 979 euro. Not yet available for order. Pro-upgrade will retail at 659 USD payable to Khimo.
The price seems better than the BLGW. Did your dealer indicate if there are any actual improvements over the BLGW or if the BLGW will no longer be supported for updates?
Oops just bought mine in February, that is a fast write off. Not only the gateway but the hours spend by technicians as wel. Will this be an add on, on top of the gateway or a whole new product?It does not come as a complete surprise as there are no updates anymore on sw.Confirms what I always say stay away from B&O and anything that has to do with computers and software. Look at beomedia, bs 5, moment etc.👍Hello chucky, I didn't mean the Khimo skills for Alexa. I mean the physical gateway... https://www.khimo.com/ It looks like Khimo is producing a gateway in cooperation with B&O and they claim it is the successor of BLGW....
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