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SaltineSurferBRONZE MemberThe BCC product sheet says “limited control for 3rd party TVs” with BR1. No separate / specific mention of LG.
Must just be HDMI CEC control then.
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE MemberFeatures that I think are missing from this new core:
Separate optical and analogue-in connectors.
Buttons on the device for play/pause, Next/Prev & Join
WISA transmitter
IR input
An option to have a core with built-in amp would be good – like the Wiim Amp. I have a core feeding an old beolink passive amp via powelink, so such a device could replace both.
Personally I don’t see the value of the HDMI input without an integrated surround decoder & multiple powerlink outs for channel assignment.
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE MemberI’m wondering if the mozart platform can now “borrow” sources from other devices, like the previous ASL platform can? I use this to access my turntable (connected to a BS core) and BS9000 cd player (NL/ML converter) from other rooms without having to Join. Last time I checked it couldn’t.
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE MemberI also only have Line In as an available source on my ASE speakers after this update on my iPhone. B&O support seem unaware of the issue, suggesting deleting the app, and re-installing it! The new app clearly hasn’t been tested on ASE devices. There is also no TV remote for my Beovision 11.
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE MemberThanks @Stan.
@Hiort – As you didn’t complete the Google Setup, were you able to set the Wifi settings in the B&O config without Google? And are you able to perform Bluetooth pairing in the B&O app/ config webpage like other speakers?I also wonder whether the four beoremote one preset buttons are married up to the ones on the top of the speaker, when a remote is paired, or whether they can function separately.
Many thanks. Rob.
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE MemberThank you all for the replies. That’s disappointing the buttons can’t be assigned to activate local sources.
@Hiort – what does the centre button do now you’ve disabled Google? Play/Pause?Rob.
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE MemberI’m also waiting patiently for this issue of the secondary linked products not being accessible in the local list menu to be fixed. It affects all of my ASE products on the new firmware with b&o Radio.
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE MemberHi enrob, It was there a spamGPT answer that point to a faulty ribbon cable and warning you to be careful when opening the device to check this part. I mention this because this is not totally dumb. Nevertheless I believe those answer are as useful as a picture of the Pope in white puffy jacket running away from the police. You’ve already explore the old forums so you may already know most of what wiz know on this common issue, most digitizers ends up developing a touch fault. Sometimes its the ribbon cable but sometimes it’s not. Think someone explored another track on this but I dont remember he found a solution. Good luck.
Thanks Matador.
Mr ChatGPT makes a good point. Since posting this though I bought a “New, old stock” replacement beo6 screen that came with a new ribbon cable attached to the screen, only to find after fitting it that this one also had a fault where the very top right didn’t register touches meaning the top page right arrow couldn’t be pressed! Such a shame as it made the beo6 look new again. The seller kindly gave me a full refund for the inconvenience. In both cases I believe it to be the digitizer at fault. So I am on the lookout for a low cost donor beo6 on ebay…
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE MemberWhat’s the link?
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE MemberHave you tried power cycling it?
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE MemberI’ve also had this same issue for many months, so thanks for posting this. I’ll update the app and will see if it works now for me too.
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE MemberFollowing with interest still! It’s a shame that Timer selection didn’t make any difference as there was a glimmer of hope there!
Yes I was just beginning to see something that might be what we were looking for in the first place. I thin I will try to test with the 1611 and the Powerlink connector on that again in combination with the timer thing the newt time I have time to do a test
That’s a shame the timer didn’t work. The Almando Masterplay is connected via masterlink though, could this Reddit chap be putting the voltage onto the masterlink pins rather than the DIN? Rob.
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE MemberGo to General Preference>User and groups and select your main account. Then in the “opening” tab add iTunes. (Names may differ a little sine I use a French OS but you should find your way.
Thank you for this tip! Ive now got it opening itunes and mounting the NAS music folder share too at startup 🙂
I’m now thinking I could create an os/x virtual machine in virtualbox on my windows server for running this which would save on running costs.
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE MemberThe Mac is running Itunes 10.6 with BM-Link […]. I also installed the itunes remote app on my iphone 13 and that worked too for controlling iTunes! I was not expecting that.
Thats interesting because last time I tried, home sharing support was not supported anymore in Snow Leopard for security reasons. That was then the missing experiment in may research on BL3500, Mac-mini and iTunes integration. So could you please elaborate on your setup, settings and software version. Side note: funny how people dig out more and more old hardware to play with it !
Hi Matador,
Mac mini is a 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB
The O/S is v 10.6.8
ITunes is v 10.6.3
BMLink v 1.50.3
PC2 firmware v1.31
I wasn’t able to sign in to Apple when enabling home share and had to cancel that. However in getting that far must have enabled something as I was then able to see the mac mini in the iphone remote app and selecting it then asked for a pairing code. Itunes on the mac then showed my iphone in the left folder structure, I clicked it and it showed me the code to enter. This then completed the pairing.
Ive set the mac to auto-login at boot, just need to figure out a way to load itunes at login next.
Annoyingly though the mac is forgetting the time after being powered off, so I get a warning popup while booting in saying the time is before 2008 and will cause errors. Once it’s connected to the network it then gets the time from the net. There must be a battery inside thats dead.
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE MemberInteresting thread!
I have my BL3500 connected to a 1611 converter running as the audio master together with a BLGW. I made a din to RJ45 cable to connect the 1611 to a Core and wrote a couple of macros for the BLGW to turn the BL3500 on and set to N.MUSIC when the core starts playing and switch it off after 30 seconds of no playback. Volume’s set to start at 60 on the 3500 and I use an essence wheel paired to the core for control + the B&O app. It all works really well, however it would be good if I could take the BLGW out of the equation and have the 3500 trigger on/off by itself. I did consider the Almando masterplay box but the cost was too much… 300 EUR vs. £30 for the 1611!
The Almando requires the 3500 timer function to be On all the time for the 3500 to trigger on.. I wonder if this is just a voltage signal down the masterlink cable ?
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE MemberDoes the beosound 3000 support A.Option 6 (Audio slave)? If not then this could be the cause of the system becoming unresponsive from having two audio masters on the ML side.
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE Memberso also the Essence Mk2 does not support the requirements from Google?
Hi Hawk,
Yes the reply from B&O was in relation to my M5, however they both share the same hardware platform.
The line-in on the essence should auto detect the signal from whatever’s connected, switch the speakers on and change the source to line-in, in the same way the M5 does.
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE Member@ebnrob ‘number key presses not being relayed to joined speakers or masterlink’ Could you please explain what that means – an example would be helpfull. MM
Hi MM, this was the problem I had which is now fixed in the newest firmware v2.1.51691:
I’ve discovered that I cannot use the number pad in a link room after joining. For example, if TuneIn is playing on my M5 and I join my A9 mk4 to it, I can’t select presets using the number pad on the BR1 (BT) in the link room. This also means I can’t select the CD playing, or directly change FM radio station on my BS9000 via the NL/ML converter. I’m not sure if it’s an issue with the BR1 that’s also received a Firmware update, or the speakers.
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE MemberAfter some friendly e-mail exchange I received this answer: “We are pleased to inform you that yes it will be fixed in a future software update regarding the issue; the issue has been reported to the Product Development team, and they will provide a software update as soon as possible.”
B&O have pushed an update to my Cores and M5 that addresses this issue with number key presses not being relayed to joined speakers or masterlink. The software version is 2.1.51691. No update to the a9 Mk4 yet.
Location: Eastbourne, UKSaltineSurferBRONZE Memberbut apparantly not (yet) for the Essence MKII
B&O have told me they can’t update Chromecast in the M5 and Essence Mk2. This is what they said to me:
“Our technical department would like to inform you that the hardware of Beoplay M5 does not support the requirements from Google and this is not a Bang & Olufsen’s decision, but part of new requirements from Google.”
Their suggestion was to buy a Chromecast audio dongle and connect it to line in. I’ve just bought a Wiim Pro streamer which has a built in Alexa receiver as well as chromecast which I’ve connected to my M5’s line-in. Works well.
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