talisman wrote:

No !

B&O Beomaster 5 Service-tool. Is is on an copy protected USB Stick.

Create a bootable stick and copy the files on it. Voilá. 👍

 

Today I had a look at the BeoSound 5 USB communication.
Quite easy and straightforward. 

Wrote a little program and hooked up the BeoSound 5 via USB and HDMI to a Raspberry Pi. 

Worked flawlessly including full button / lever / ring / volume-wheel support.
So if there comes a time when there are no spare parts for the BM5 available any longer this would be an alternative.
Just add a good DAC and maybe use XBMC with a highly modified UI.
Hopefully there will also be some open ML stuff in future. We are working on this in another thread...  

 

BR,
BeoMotion. 

BeoMotion wrote:

Today I had a look at the BeoSound 5 USB communication.
Quite easy and straightforward. 

Wrote a little program and hooked up the BeoSound 5 via USB and HDMI to a Raspberry Pi. 

Good work - I've been meaning to do this myself  As a USB HID device, my guess was that the various controls would act in a similar manner to X / Y axes of a USB mouse, can you confirm whether this is the case?

Martin.

 

 

 

riverstyx wrote:

would act in a similar manner to X / Y axes of a USB mouse, can you confirm whether this is the case?

It is indeed detected as a HID device and there are some similarities to e.g. a mouse but it is not the same.

There is one EP (interrupt) and if you listen to it it will return an array with all values if something changes.  
It will give you two values with the click count of the both rotary wheels since the last read (counting from 0 if clockwise or from 256 if counter clockwise).
Then there are two identical absolute values from the lever, a value for the buttons and one that I don't know. This might be for IR since I forgot to test this. 

BR,
BeoMotion. 

Hi,

 

I would like to follow the alternative thread as mentioned, where is it to be found?

 

Regards

Geert Veen

Hi,

 

I would like to follow the alternative thread as mentioned, where is it to be found?

 

Regards

Geert Veen

BeoMotion wrote:

Today I had a look at the BeoSound 5 USB communication.
Quite easy and straightforward. 

Wrote a little program and hooked up the BeoSound 5 via USB and HDMI to a Raspberry Pi. 

Worked flawlessly including full button / lever / ring / volume-wheel support.
So if there comes a time when there are no spare parts for the BM5 available any longer this would be an alternative.
Just add a good DAC and maybe use XBMC with a highly modified UI.
Hopefully there will also be some open ML stuff in future. We are working on this in another thread...  

 

BR,
BeoMotion. 

I don't know how I could have missed this. This indeed reads very exciting. Would this only work with a BS5 or also with the BS5E? If XBMC/Kodi could show the UI and then paly on my BV, this would be really cool!

take notice that Microsoft stops support of XP embedded on 12 January 2016.

the new project should be Windows 7 or 8 embedded.

I had it almost working on a BM1 than I did something stupid and lost the B&o partition

As I'm a new owner of a preloved BS/BM5 , I'looking to get it future proof.

I'affraid reading that the mainboards seem to beak down.

Did anyone of you get new infos on :

- changing the mainboard,

- upgrading the OS to win 7, 8, 10.

- copying the BM5 service tool

let's reactivate this important threat!

Thank's

Also here to bump this thread.

Using the panel of the BS5 to control a raspberry pi would be awesome, I do not care at all about the BM5 as my BM5500 is rocking it.