Purpose of the link to main/secondary product ?

Hello,

in the settings possibilities offered by the B&O app, in settings/Beolink/Link to other products, it is possible to choose to link to a main product, and then to link to a secondary product.

What is it for ?

May it be a way to join permanently?

I'm glad to see you bring up this topic. Aspects of the "primary" and "secondary" have seemed a bit mysterious to me as well. My best understanding is that it's a way to add sources from other NL multi-room products as local sources on any other device. This would be especially relevant for sources from a BL converter or from line-in. Of course, many sources such as "Deezer" and "TuneIn" would be rather redundant. This is different from the JOIN function that joins in on a source already being played on another device. For example, you might want to play a BeoGram turntable as a source in one room without wanting to play the sound in the room where the BeoGram is physically located.

beojeff:

My best understanding is that it's a way to add sources from other NL multi-room products as local sources on any other device.

Thanks a lot for this explanation! It makes sense.

To give an image, all the “producers” are listed, and each “consumer” call the “producer” he wants (2 max)

Is this what you are asking about ?

DVD = ATV in BV8

PC = MacMini on BV8

RADIO = FM on BeoSound 4

A.MEM = SD Cards on BS4

CD, A.AUX = BS4 ditto

LINE.IN = line in on the BLC itself

CB:

To give an image, all the “producers” are listed, and each “consumer” call the “producer” he wants (2 max)

Also not too sure about the reference to “2 max”.

I was able to achieve the following playing of A.MEMx2 by a join; I had intended to try to access A.MEM independently from both rooms but couldn’t do that - I suspect I have to revisit my BLC configuration (he shudders with fear 😱)

Here are 2 snapshots to show you what/where it is:

First go to configure/settings/Beolink

 

Then click on “Link to other products”

(I suppose my translation is ok)

There you reach the boxes where you can choose the main/secondary product to connect to.

I think the feature of main and secondary is a bit redundant as most of the new products have streaming (connnect) capabilities.

At a point in time you may have had all your devices connected to your beovision (primary) and wanted to share those sources on (secondary) device.

But now as the secondary generally has the same sources it’s irrelevant (generally)

CB:

Here are 2 snapshots to show you what/where it is:

Which App is that ???

None of my Apps look like that !

And I don’t mean the French words

elephant:

Which App is that ???

None of my Apps look like that !

And I don’t mean the French words BeoNut since '75

Scrolling down the screen I saw “gateway”

[:\'(] I don’t have one of those

My “BeoLink” label applies to my BLC nl/ml

elephant:

Which App is that ???

B&O app for iPhone

Aussie Michael:

I think the feature of main and secondary is a bit redundant as most of the new products have streaming (connnect) capabilities.

 

 

At a point in time you may have had all your devices connected to your beovision (primary) and wanted to share those sources on (secondary) device.

 

 

But now as the secondary generally has the same sources it’s irrelevant (generally)

The feature is very relevant. You need it for access to ML sources and line-in sources. Sometimes it can take very careful planning if you need access the sources from more than 2 devices. For example, I have 4 NL/ML converters. You must first make certain sources available on one device in order to add all of those sources to another device. Naturally, you likely would not want to tick the boxes for Deezer, TuneIn, etc, when those sources are already available as local sources.

elephant:

elephant:

 

Which App is that ???

 

None of my Apps look like that !

 

And I don’t mean the French words BeoNut since '75

 

 

Scrolling down the screen I saw “gateway”

 

[:\'(] I don’t have one of those

 

My “BeoLink” label applies to my BLC nl/ml

 

I believe that the "Gateway" setting is for selecting whether you want the device to forward LIGHT/CONTROL commands. Unfortunately, this currently has no relevance for the music devices that now have no IR capability. As B&O continues this route of omitting IR and we keep replacing our legacy ML devices with NL audio devices, we are really going to need for B&O to make the audio devices work with the BeoRemote One BT so that we can interact with home automation via the BLGW.

I've had to use the LIGHT/CONTROL forwarding feature on an NL/ML converter that I have connected to a BeoVision 10 in my bedroom. The converter was necessary to play my bedroom's BeoSound Moment through the BeoVision 10's speakers. However, by thus removing my BeoVision 10 from the home's main ML network, the BeoVision 10 could no longer forward LIGHT/CONTROL commands on its own.