[Tignum]

Hi Graham, that sounds like the best option to keep operating the BS3 as you are used to. Ideally the Sony has some kind of autosense to switch on when your BS3 provides a signal to it. Maybe you can align on that with the Sony guy. Regards, Johan

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Millemissen wrote:

The problems here mainly is the way you have to use/control the setup. As Tignum writes it is possible to get the sound from the LG to the BSys3 – I’d be an advocate for the HDMI ARC extractor there. If you want to use sources of the BSys3 as well as also those from the tv, it gets complicated….especially, if you have to concider that other members of the household might demand ease of use. My recommendation would be either to use the internal sources of the tv (including e.g. maybe a blu ray player connected there) and the BSys3 only for sound (speaker groups, volume etc) or to use the tv as a dumb screen and the BSys3 for everything (e.g. a Chromecast dongle, PUC-controlled external tuner, AppleTV etc…). In the first case you prioritize better picture – in the second better sound. Either way you will have to deal with two remotes. I guess you will have to do some experiments yourself in order to find out, what suits you best.

Good point MM. To keep everything working ‘as it was’, most logical seems to add an Apple TV to one of the HDMI inputs of the BS3. The Apple TV can provide in any desired smart tv app. No sound output of the TV required. The Sony will be the ‘dumb’ screen. Regards, Johan

[Tignum]

Hi Benjnz, welcome!

I would say that with the BLC set to ‘Source center’ you can make N.RADIO and N.MUSIC sources visible to a joint BC6-26/BS3200 ML network, and also map the CD experience from that ML chain to NL. Check page 15 of the BLC handbook that you can find as an attachment in this thread: https://beoworld.dev.idslogic.net/forums/topic/difference-between-source-sugnals/page/3/.

(A.TAPE is used to access the stored CDs on the BS3200 right? If so, then I do not expect any (N.MUSIC) conflicts. But if such ML source conflict does end up to be a show-stopper, you can always decide to indeed get one BLC more, set that one to A SLAVE and ‘map’ the desired BS3200’s CD ‘experience’ to the NL side that way. This is how bnousr (and me) in the mentioned thread have set up our (three) generations of BeoLink networks).

Let us know what you achieve! Best of luck. Regards, Johan

[Tignum]

Hi Graham, the sound of my TV is coming from its optical out port (Toslink), then using an optical to coax converter, it is fed into an S/P-DIF digital input of the BS3. This allows 5.1 Dolby surround sound to be played over the connected speakers of the BS3.In the connections menu, at sound input, you should choose S/P-DIF.

If you have a 7.1 speaker set-up, you will likely need an HDMI ARC extractor and feed sound into one of the BS3’s HDMI inputs (plus maybe some help from a third BeoWorld member with that experience).

Regards, Johan

[Tignum]

Found an Encore advertised, that turned out to be a BS5/BM5 500GB floorstand combo. I decided to take it :-). It works and I think controlling it with the pointer beam is charming.

Beauty however is in the eye of the beholder – I am facing fierce objection to add this work of art to our kitchen! It is called the dentist intake stand at the moment.

Keep you posted 😉

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PrizeDrawBot and humans of the BeoVerse, thanks a lot for the great draw and an exciting hour! See you in December 🙂

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Bebopellula, that is an amazing prize! Enjoy!!

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ThomasF, that is not very shabby at all, congratulations!

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Classic cool, nice win kiirin.

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Lucky you TWG! Best colour.

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There will be some jealous beoworlders now :-), congrats badgersurf!

[Tignum]

Good luck all!

[Tignum]

Hoi Theo, goed te horen! De 8000s zijn fraaie en mooi gemaakte speakers, zeker de moeite waard om te behouden. Groet, Johan

[Tignum]

Hi, yes also here many of these messages:

Mar 28 20:21:12 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Using distributed experience for status
Mar 28 20:21:12 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Client disconnected. Message: Socket error. Error: Broken pipe, ErrorCode: 32 [Notifier.cpp:233]
Mar 28 20:21:12 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Dismissing HTTP Response due to errorState [Http.cpp:349]
Mar 28 20:21:22 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:BeoNetRemote is asking current status
Mar 28 20:21:22 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Using distributed experience for status
Mar 28 20:21:22 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Client disconnected. Message: Socket error. Error: Broken pipe, ErrorCode: 32 [Notifier.cpp:233]
Mar 28 20:21:22 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Dismissing HTTP Response due to errorState [Http.cpp:349]
Mar 28 20:21:32 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:BeoNetRemote is asking current status
Mar 28 20:21:32 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Using distributed experience for status
Mar 28 20:21:32 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Client disconnected. Message: Socket error. Error: Broken pipe, ErrorCode: 32 [Notifier.cpp:233]
Mar 28 20:21:32 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Dismissing HTTP Response due to errorState [Http.cpp:349]
Mar 28 20:21:43 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:BeoNetRemote is asking current status
Mar 28 20:21:43 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Using distributed experience for status
Mar 28 20:21:43 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Client disconnected. Message: Socket error. Error: Broken pipe, ErrorCode: 32 [Notifier.cpp:233]
Mar 28 20:21:43 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:Dismissing HTTP Response due to errorState [Http.cpp:349]
Mar 28 20:21:53 (none) BLC[1153]: [info]:BeoNetRemote is asking current status

Maybe a 100 lines everyday? Not sure if this a lot for the processor to handle.

Regards, Johan

[Tignum]

Hi bnousr, great to hear and happy to have been of help! Good experience for me too as I also learned a bit more on the way :-). I also was searching for the most logical Beo4 user experience, like you. Again, great to see that B&O made connecting three generations of link systems possible, with full control. Enjoy!

(PS – the only thing with the BeoVirus is, now everything works, you will need something else to play with! I am considering adding an Encore (don’t want the BM5) to feed into one of my BLCs)

[Tignum]

Hi Beobuddy, now I know what that loud ‘thump’ was that I heard here up north lately. What a plan :-). Really curious to see how this BeoLab Triple V story develops!

[Tignum]

These are good hints! For me it would be ‘enCORE’ :-), thanks for that thought: ideally I would like to use the same music library my Core uses, will read a bit about that as it is mostly ALAC now. No rush here, first need to find a nice BS5e reasonably priced and not too far.

I think for me the BS5e is also bit simpler to install nicely: I do have some ducts already that I can use for RJ45 termination (Ethernet and Powerlink).

Have a good evening! Johan

 

[Tignum]

Hi MM, hi Carolpa, I was already assuming (edit: counting on the fact) that I cannot control the BS5e through BeoLink. My aim will be to play it through a Line-in of a BLC (using A.AUX to listen to it in any of the rooms), control the content by hand (option 0). Carolpa, you confirm my thought to use the PowerLink socket for that.

I think the BS5/BM5 is very classic cool, but I am hesitant to put another big, fan-cooled box somewhere. The BS5e looks just as cool, and I hope the directly accessible nature of it will make my user experience better than I like the app/core. The downside is the low/no level of control. But hey, maybe I should see walking to my BS5e similarly romantic as flipping a record! Both haptic experiences. Keep you posted!

[Tignum]

Hi, my Core is still on 2.1.50871.22855122. Is any one else also still ‘waiting’?

Johan

[Tignum]

Hi bkslash, ML over CAT7 S/FTP with RJ45 is well possible and recommended/used by B&O for installation. See the BeoLink handbook p.98 for the correct pinout. Regards, Johan

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