Beolab 3500 and Beocenter 8500 – possible?

[Madskp]

CharlieWednesday wrote:

As for the Beolink PC2, I missed out on the one that was on eBay but another will come up, and I am just too curious not to buy one now!  One thing I didn’t think of though – will I be able to get the software for it?

It is not official available from B&O anymore, but I was able to find it online on a random download site. Let me know when if you going to need it and I can supply you with it. I have i running on Windows 10 even though it is not official supported.

[CharlieWednesday]

I managed to find another Beolink PC2 going cheap on eBay (some sellers were asking a lot for it though!).  I was too curious not to buy it in the end, so I bought it and it’s on its way.  I’d be grateful for that software then, if you have it.

[Guy]

Great news about the Beoport/PC2.  You may wish to have a read of some of my experiences in this thread: https://forum.beoworld.org/forums/topic/beoport-beoplayer/page/3/#post-39476

Mine worked a lot better once I realised that I needed to install he Beoport software, rather than the Beoplayer software!

There are still a few problems with internet radio – mine won’t play BBC radio stations for more than 30 seconds which is annoying, but I think it’s a BBC format problem.  BFBS, Classic FM and Danish stations (eg DR P1, 2 and 3) are fine.  There is still some strange windows behaviour where it mutes the BeoNetRadio sometimes when you change stations – you have to open the PC’s volume mixer to unmute. It happens on both Win10 and 11 (but not Vista!) and I haven’t found a fix.

Will you be using it with a PC or Mac, and if the latter what operating system does you computer have?

[CharlieWednesday]

Thanks – I’ve downloaded it ready for when it arrives.  I’m using a Windows 10 PC (I’m a keen PC gamer, so Mac is no good for me!).  I’ve held off on installing Windows 11 for now as it needs me to change some BIOS settings and then reinstall, and I simply can’t be bothered with all that just yet!

[Madskp]

CharlieWednesday wrote:

Thanks – I’ve downloaded it ready for when it arrives. I’m using a Windows 10 PC (I’m a keen PC gamer, so Mac is no good for me!). I’ve held off on installing Windows 11 for now as it needs me to change some BIOS settings and then reinstall, and I simply can’t be bothered with all that just yet!

Great, if I remember correctly you have to run the setup as administrator for it to work

[CharlieWednesday]

Since I started this post I bought a Beosound 4 and now have the Beolab 3500 connected to that instead (so no need for the 1611 or 1614 converters in that setup), but I was reminded that we wondered if the BL3500 could get its clock to update from a PC2/Beoport, if both were connected to my Beocenter 8500 via the 1611.

I have since bought a PC2 and use it with my BS4, but out of curiously I reconnected my BC8500 to the 1611 and then to both the PC2 and the 3500 via ML.  You were right – with the PC2 in option 6, the BL3500 doesn’t display the clock.

I changed the PC2 into option 1 and connected it directly to the BL3500, and the clock updated.  So, I would assume from all of this that the clock on a BL3500 can only be set from an audio master that has a clock.

[Guy]

Subsequent posts about showing time on the BL3500 moved to new thread here:  https://forum.beoworld.org/forums/topic/displaying-time-on-beolab-3500/

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