Great idea

I suggest

Wifi

Bluetooth

CD or whatever source

JOIN

You can actually use the up and down light buttons for volume up and down ( which I suggest)

Standby

I did this for a beolab 3500 over a showe in a room ... very good idea

I've been playing around a bit with the programming. I created a button for "Deezer" and one for "TuneIn." It's so easy to program. It's nice to have dedicated controls for the functions. I disliked the blind tapping to cycle through sources and the need to pull out my phone or tablet and opening an app.

Source buttons are a good idea.

As I said earlier. Try the dimmer up and down for volume it's quite helpful

mjmedlo wrote:

Source buttons are a good idea.

 

As I said earlier. Try the dimmer up and down for volume it's quite helpful

I've used the up and down buttons before on Lutron keypads for step-ups and step-downs for volume. Repeating key presses until I reach the desired volume. I've been reluctant to program them, however, for continuous volume up and down though. I'm worried about loss of connection resulting in run-away volume increase. Did you program them for continuous presses for volume?

beojeff wrote:

I've used the up and down buttons before on Lutron keypads for step-ups and step-downs for volume. Repeating key presses until I reach the desired volume. I've been reluctant to program them, however, for continuous volume up and down though. I'm worried about loss of connection resulting in run-away volume increase. Did you program them for continuous presses for volume?

I use them only for finite button up.

I'm afraid of continuous up volumes!!

Oh my days! I am at work!!!

I am missing all these threads because they don't come under General Discussions and I always use the iPhone app which has many categories. I will be checking properly from now on.

I will read this whole thread and get back to you!

I am loving what you're doing!!!

I like to listen to some tracks over and over again. Or maybe some in a sequence I know, over and over again.

With your help on my other thread, I can line up a good number of tracks with the BS5 - favourite colour options. I will definitely be using all 4 colours and assign them to 4 buttons on the keypad.

You also confirmed I can assign a single track from numbers 1-9 which could be helpful but I could just place those tracks right at the start of a colour - which saves my Lutron buttons lol.

The only radio station I listen to is from TuneIn - BBC Radio 1Xtra - which I will also programme to a button in my little B&O playground.

I love to use my CD collection and load up the BS9000. I don't know how I will manage to choose different CDs and tracks but I will definitely try to put the BS9000 on my keypad if possible.

If you are using this keypad strictly for your music then it's ideal to have all the sources you will be listening to on the keypad?

I am so glad MJ confirmed the up and down small buttons can be used for volume! But could they also be used for operating blinds as well if a button is assigned and programmed to a window blind? I will have this. All windows will have sivoia blinds.

JOIN would be a wicked function like MJ says!

And I would definitely also have the STANDBY function so the whole experience can be achieved with the keypad and doing nothing else.

I'm so glad you found this thread, Kiran! It thought you might find it really relevant to your project, and I welcome your ideas.

In reading the BeoSound 5 user guide, I found that the numeric favorites just plant a song as a seed for the MOTS. I wish that B&O would have given us the option to use the numeric favorites for other uses -- such as storing entire playlists. We have much more flexibility in what we can assign to both colored and numeric favorites in Spotify on the BeoSound 5. I'll be sad to see Spotify removed from the BeoSound 5.

I've found that some functions of the BeoSound 1 such as AirPlay would make no sense as a button. For example, to get AirPlay on a device, you must "push it" to the device from an Apple device. Once you change the source on the BeoSound 1 to something else such as Deezer or TuneIn, the AirPlay connection is lost and you must re-push it from the Apple device. I could also see the up and down buttons being useful for moving between tracks, stations, and playlists within sources.

Something else useful from creating macros in the BLGW is that we can then trigger those functions using Amazon Echo voice commands via IFTTT.

Experimenting with the keypad is a great way to explore some of the additional NL functions found in the BLGW. I'll be able to explore this further when my BeoLink Converter and BeoPlay M5 arrive in a couple of days.