controlling beosound 5 with beo 6

[boarcastle]

I am honestly astonished that B&O hasn’t updated this remote to modern WiFi standard. Even more so that they also don’t offer an app to control the Beosound 5.

I will look into third party apps and sell the Beo 6.

Thank you very much for your support Stoobie!

[Aziz AB]

Hello everyone,

I bought a working beo 6 recently, and a beosound 5 seperatley. as I was trying to check if it works with my beosound 5, the battery died and now not charging and no display. I learned its a bootloader issue. I don’t have the software to to configure the remote, nor to configure the beosound 5 so it works with the remote. Does any one have them? Please advise. I need to revive tbe remote first.

*Remote Software version 3.00a

Thank you

Location: United States
Favourite Product: Beo 6
Signature: AZ

[CharlieWednesday]

I’ve managed to revive a few Beo6 with this issue.  You would need this cable to connect the Beo6 dock to your PC.  The software is available in the Beo6 Product page on this site.

You may also need a new battery – if so, this one worked for me; I’ve installed this battery in all three of my Beo6 remotes and they are still going strong.

The software is tricky however – I have an old Widows 7-32bit laptop which I have specifically for restoring/reprogramming Beo5 and Beo6 remotes.  The software works fine on an older 32-bit version of Windows.

You can use Oracle VirtualBox to run a virtual Win7-32 OS on a later version of Windows, but trust me – it’s temperamental!

The items I have linked above are from UK eBay sellers, but you may be able to find alternatives in the US.

Location: Liverpool
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[Aziz AB]

Thank you Charlie, I do have a similar cable with my older gps, as for the battery it is not shippable to the US, but have seen others posting batteries. My main concern was the software, I will check B&O site for it, is there a recommended version?

Regards

AZ

Location: United States
Favourite Product: Beo 6
Signature: AZ

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