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Hi alls, Playing again here!
Today I plugged again an MCL IR eye and a lot of things did happen!
First the wiring of the eye: thank you Guy for pointing me the wiring different is different from Beolink IR eye. Since you had a doubt about Yellow or White I can clarify:
Green is 5V
White is DATA
Brown is GroundThe Beoport was set in “Respond to Audio and Video Commands” through LP2 preferences. Equivalent to OPT 2 or 6, it says.
The Beolab 3500 was set in L.OPT 0 where nothing happened and then in L.OPT 2.
From there, I was able to command LP with the Beo4 but this time in Mac mode (MM), not Distribution mode (DM). I was also able to navigate through the album (or artist or radio…) lists the iPod way. But the Beolab 3500 is still seeing the press on menu and enters Timer programmation mode. I won’t prevent you from navigate but at the same time you’re programming a random timer.
Another interesting thing is that now I can call video sources (so far I’ve just linked CD with the TV command).
LP2 shows volume level but it’s not linked to the Beolab Level: for instance when I adjust the volume, it may be at 26 on the Beolab and at 58 on LP2. When LP2 reach the max volume of 72, the Beolab continues to increase. LP2 volume is somehow attached to the Mac volume.
By the way, still no title display on the BL 3500!
All in all it seems a little bit less responsive but it needs to be confirmed because I changed the Mac and this one as only 1GB of memory.
The system still behave randomly sometimes essentially when you call N.Music. and you need to quit and relaunch LP2.
Going into Distribution mode looks to work but it don’t, it show you an album cover, the one playing if you’re lucky but from there there is not much you can do. Interestingly, in Distribution mode you can not navigate in list anymore.
In MM you can put the Beolab to standby by touching the front panel but LP2 stays active. You can then put LP2 in standby with a long press on the transceiver Mute key.In DM a short press on the Mute key put the whole system to standby.
That’s all for now!
No, you need a laser deep clean.
it has nothing to do with the pickup element.
In fact, I was surprise by the lock up behavior: I’ve got a BC2300 with bad laser and it spins, stops and stay like that, I dont hangs. But I post this anyway after the test mode report.
Thanks for correcting me and sorry to the OP.
No, you need a laser deep clean.
While replacing caps and relays is called for as a general restoration strategy nothing is harmed to wait for a failure if it’s working fine.
Just for saying that, Thank you Mark-sf! Really.
While there, I tried to set a timer with a radio station pre-selected.
I put the Mac to sleep and at the programmed time it wake up and started the radio.This guy Phil did a very good job…
Playing again…
When in Mac mode, I’m able to go a level up in the hierarchy through the Apple Remote:
Short press on Menu makes MENU blinks and you can go up or down levels with the arrow.But when in Distribution mode, when you have to use a B&O remote, pressing menu just bring the timer menu on the Beolab 3500. I dont know but I suspect this is preventing the Beoport to gat the IR command and then to pass it to LP avoiding browsing.
No reaction from both sequences in RADIO or MUSIC mode…
From a BL5000.Hi Cedric, Welcome to Beoworld.
It was a long time ago but what I remember is that after fitting the new belt I could turn a little bit the flywheel and see all move accordingly until it get hard to spin and get stuck.
Being there I forced slightly and that was where the big clac happened and after this, all was turning freely and smoothly. I built up the unit again and all was good.About the belt: for anything in rubber, we have our local specialist, member Dillen. He would put the shame on you because he’s not very friendly with Portuguese Belt that brought a lot of headache to him but it worth trying to contact him through the forum or straight to Beoparts.com. There you’ll find the best and only belts that would guaranty you the problem is not from them.
However I doubt the problem would come from even the worst belt if it is fresh. When I repaired my first unit, I fitted a rubber band to be sure the problem was from there before ordering parts and it did work. Portuguese belts won’t last long or add wow and flutter or whatever malfunction, but as far as I know, they will not block the deck straight on.
My ignorant guess would be wrong belt path and if not I dont know, sorry.
Dillen should chime in quickly: I suspect him to have an alert on the word “belt”. He will tell you…
Source buttons.
Quick tip: the beo4 (in my case BL5000) do wake up the Mac from sleep.
Playing with it…
I figured out that radios are not seen as radios because they are in a playlist but because iTunes/LP2 recognize them as being continuous streams i.e. radios.
In fact, I’m used to add radios in playlists like if they were bookmarks for the long list of worldwide radios available, but I never noticed that they are actually added to the main library like if they were individual tracks.
I need to see now how this reacts to the read and blue modes: need to dig out a Beo4!
Also, having LP2 starting in Local mode by default make things a little bit more difficult. I understand the logic behind at that times, but many years after, an preference switch would have been welcome. I wonder if a little Applescript can take care of that.
It can: I just compile this script as an executable, stuck it the B&O badge icon and put it in the dock. It starts Linkplayer and type the Keystroke to put the app in distribution mode.
tell application "LinkPlayer 2.4.11" activate tell application "System Events" to keystroke "2" using command down end tell
Little by little…
Big progress this morning: LP2 displays is now in sync with the currently playing source and Beo4 commands. The problem was the stupid operator who didn’t switch LP2 to Distribution Mode. Problem solved.
Some inconsistencies I had with sources selection was also because iTunes was populated with automatically generated playlists like last played, last added, etc… and these tracks were interpreted like radios. After cleaning the playlist list, it works better.
I’m also starting to see more clearly into the color modes that makes the navigation more reliable.
The multiple sources playing creating the echoes is also an operator related problem: it was iTunes playing in the background on top of the LP2 playing.
A.Aux triggers the Mac Audio in. Tested with an iPod
For one hour now, all is working well and as expected.
The issue I still experience:
I’m not able to select the PC input even after configuring it in LP2 source preferences.
When in Mac mode I was able to browse the album/artist/genre lists from the currently playing track screen (like going one level up on an iPod).
Now I can’t anymore and thats makes the PC mode necessary.Also, having LP2 starting in Local mode by default make things a little bit more difficult.
I understand the logic behind at that times, but many years after, an preference switch would have been welcome. I wonder if a little Applescript can take care of that.Yes. I’ve tried LC2’s with various led bulb including advertised as dimmable (but they were of the cheap kind) and none of them worked, only tungsten bulb minimum 40W, including in the on/off mode.
I read something about trailing edge and leading edge dimmers when I was on this, but bulbs for the kind of dimmer the LC2 is supposed to be (I dont remember precisely) were expensive so I just dropped the idea.
Yes. Having them all checked or only one by one makes no difference.
I forgot, something that still bugging me:
Whatever the preferences I check or not no way to display song name on the Beolab 3500 screen. Any idea?
Thanks.
even ter info: ik heb versie 6.84
Yes this is that one, my memory you know… Good you get it.
I must confess that I’m walking step by step but without any knowledge on the “big picture”.
So far, I dont know if issues are “me” related, or LinkPlayer “limitations”.
All this to say that I thank you for your proposal but I dont even know what to ask you to start. Maybe later…The Options are set up differently in LP2 than in ML devices: you tell the software how you use it and it set the option for you. But you never know what actual option number it chooses for you. As long as it works, meaning beo4 remote control without IR eye, I’m fine with this.
Right now sources are mapped as follow:
RADIO -> iTunes Radio (not external)
A.MEM -> iTunes Music (not external)
CD -> Mac CD drive.
A.AUX -> Mac Audio In.This is working well (so far), the drawback being browsing the library.
I’ve tried to play with N.SOURCES to allow iTunes External control that allows browsing the iPod way.
But it freeze the Beolab: unable to revert to a direct source, unable to stand-by, only way out is quit LP and wait for the Beolab to turn off itself.Being able to control the PC source in Distribution (Masterlink) mode as you can in Local (Mac Mediacenter mode) would make it perfect. But Madskp tell us why this not seems to be possible so lets say where we are is enough…
For now…. 😀
Hi, sorry to reply in English.
As far as I know and unless there is something specific about Beosound 5, the last version of Config Tool is 6.4.something.
I teint a download link was provided recently on this forum: try to do a search, its on Mediafire I think. You’ll find plenty of useful intel about programming and playing with that (wonderfull) remote.
If you can’t find the link DM me.
I also found this in one of the threads on the older forums.
Yes Madskp, I forgot to thank you in the course of writing my post; but thats indeed thanks to the link you posted that I figured out this, so thank you and sorry about that.
Yes as far as I can read LP2 is not using itunes as the player for distribution, but it might use it when choosing it as a local source.
Make sense. But shouldn’t it be then handled by the Beolab and the Beoport only? In a normal installation Insnt the Beoport called by the PC command? Then I would expect at least the Beolab sticking with to the PC source (instead of not even seeing it) and opening the Audio In from the Beoport, through Masterlink. Or am I mistaken in thinking the Beoport can distribute the computer music to the whole Masterlink network?
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