From a practical point of view, how do you connect into the ML network – I assume instead of ML plug you wire into a connector box?
I made this little ML RJ45 adapter you can see on this picture here. You can directly plug it directly into an ML device and then use a standard RJ45 cable for connecting it to the interface board. If you have a ML system with several linkrooms connected then either solder an ethernet cable onto the bus at a convenient location or if you are lucky to have one of those old ML distribution boxes just plug in the little adapter from the picture above. Alternatively you can also wire everything with RJ45 – I made a passive RJ45 hub for joining 6 ML devices.
In terms of signal input I’d ideally use (an old unused) iMac – would that work?
The title of this thread is not exactly matching anymore. While it still relies on a USB connection for the ML communication, it was later made compatible with a Raspberry Pi single board computer. You just attach the ML interface board to it. You can then run any software you’d like. There are some very well working community implementations for AirPlay, Spotify Connect, etc. available.
I have a Beosound 9000 version 1 master, which doesn’t support N.Music or N.Radio – is there any other way that these type of services can be accessed off the music source (ie iMAc in this case)?
For those units the theory is setting it to Option 2 (TV speakers connected to BS9000) and let the ML interface board act as a video master. So you can then use TV/SAT/DTV/etc. for streaming through the BS9000. It should work but haven’t tested it yet.
If all the above works, I’d order one tomorrow!
Not yet available! Should have some stock in around 2 weeks. Also please be prepared to fiddle a bit with the software. I’m using it daily and it works really reliable but the initial setup requires some very basic software “tinkering” skills. Already wrote an nice documentation for it but it’s not the typical plug-n-play product.
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