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A6 new software: 1.8.480.215239933

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mbolo01 Posted: Sat, Nov 19 2016 8:42 AM

I have not seen the details on the support page yet, but I think they have added Bass/Treble control  ..... or I missed it in the previous releases? other than that nothing obvious.

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My Essence (2nd gen) has the same software - they added the sound controls - and a choice for the actually added speakers there.

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Hiort replied on Sat, Nov 19 2016 10:27 AM
mbolo01:

I have not seen the details on the support page yet, but I think they have added Bass/Treble control ..... or I missed it in the previous releases? other than that nothing obvious.

Yes, that is a new feature.

That's a really great addition to the position switch. Hope they will add that to the BS1 / 2 as well.

 

 

 

 

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mbolo01 replied on Sat, Nov 19 2016 12:19 PM

Here are the official changes:

v. 1.8.480 – Released 17.11.2016

Introduced the possibility to manually tune the basic tone control of Bass & Treble, via the App, in the product Sound Settings


(BeoSound 35 only) Added the possibility to set fixed volume level on the line-in/optical source, so the volume is regulated by the external source


(BeoSound 35 only) Added the possibility to enable Bluetooth pairing by simply long pressing on the “GO” button, if the product is not in the “Always Open” pairing mode. This option can be enabled in the “Local Operation” of the product settings


Fixed issue of product joining multiroom sources, even when this option was disabled


Other smaller fixes and improvements

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Hiort replied on Sat, Nov 19 2016 2:58 PM
mbolo01:

Here are the official changes:

v. 1.8.480 – Released 17.11.2016 Introduced the possibility to manually tune the basic tone control of Bass & Treble, via the App, in the product Sound Settings (BeoSound 35 only) Added the possibility to set fixed volume level on the line-in/optical source, so the volume is regulated by the external source (BeoSound 35 only) Added the possibility to enable Bluetooth pairing by simply long pressing on the “GO” button, if the product is not in the “Always Open” pairing mode. This option can be enabled in the “Local Operation” of the product settings Fixed issue of product joining multiroom sources, even when this option was disabled Other smaller fixes and improvements

Thanks,

Wonder why it says "Beosound 35 only"? The tone controls are there in the A6.

 

 

 

 

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mbolo01 replied on Sat, Nov 19 2016 8:24 PM

Hiort:

Wonder why it says "Beosound 35 only"? The tone controls are there in the A6.

The text format was lost during the copy paste :-) I have corrected this to avoid confusion, please see above

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Fruts replied on Mon, Dec 19 2016 9:05 AM

Hello.....i am realy new into beoplay and this forum....sorry if I post on wrong place.

But I just got a Beoplay A6 for my birthday .

I want to use chrome Cast but my device has firmware 1.3xxx and it does not support chrome cast.

Searched the web and found that firmware 1.8 exists and supports chrome cast.
But strangely my Beoplay A6 does not update the firmeware. It is on automatic update but dus not  update to 1.8xxx is says it is up to date ??? Can someone give me a link to a download of the firmware, so i can manualy update to 1.8

Thanks in advance.   ( Dutch would be nice :-) )

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Hiort replied on Mon, Dec 19 2016 9:19 AM

Fruts:

Hello.....i am realy new into beoplay and this forum....sorry if I post on wrong place.

But I just got a Beoplay A6 for my birthday .

I want to use chrome Cast but my device has firmware 1.3xxx and it does not support chrome cast.

Searched the web and found that firmware 1.8 exists and supports chrome cast.
But strangely my Beoplay A6 does not update the firmeware. It is on automatic update but dus not  update to 1.8xxx is says it is up to date ??? Can someone give me a link to a download of the firmware, so i can manualy update to 1.8

Thanks in advance.   ( Dutch would be nice :-) )

Welcome to the forum Smile

The A6 is a great product!

If you download the Beosetup app you can trigger the update from there. 

Don´t think you can get hold of the firmware anywhere else.

/C

 

 

 

 

 

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tournedos replied on Mon, Dec 19 2016 4:30 PM

And there's actually 1.9.502.lotsofnumbers out now - I just noticed, don't ask me what's new...

Make sure you have a strong Wi-Fi signal or use wired Ethernet. I guess the device might refuse to update, if it thinks that the connection might be unreliable. 

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mbolo01 replied on Mon, Dec 19 2016 5:06 PM
tournedos:

And there's actually 1.9.502.lotsofnumbers out now - I just noticed, don't ask me what's new...

They added support for GOOGLE Home Voice Assistant, support for Spotify on GOOGLE Cast, reduced overall power consumption and smaller fixes an improvements

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mbolo01:
They added support for GOOGLE Home Voice Assistant, support for Spotify on GOOGLE Cast, reduced overall power consumption and smaller fixes an improvements

Interestingly, they also added Analytics support. People who have enabled analytics through the web pages will now provide analytics data to the B&O cloud service from version 1.9.502 just released.

Regards Keith....

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Fruts replied on Mon, Dec 19 2016 11:22 PM

Now I disabled wifi and connected it with a network cable.

The app finds the A6

Went to ProductSoftware Update.

Checked update is automatic.

version 1.3.xxxxx and  it says it is up to date ??

So i am stuck......

Should i reset the device with the button on the bottem of the a6 and start from scratch ?

(Just sended an email to support, hope they can help me out )

Thanks for your thoughts..... 

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Hiort replied on Tue, Dec 20 2016 7:57 AM

Fruts:

Now I disabled wifi and connected it with a network cable.

The app finds the A6

Went to ProductSoftware Update.

Checked update is automatic.

version 1.3.xxxxx and  it says it is up to date ??

So i am stuck......

Should i reset the device with the button on the bottem of the a6 and start from scratch ?

(Just sended an email to support, hope they can help me out )

Thanks for your thoughts..... 

I would do a reset and start from scratch

 

 

 

 

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tournedos replied on Tue, Dec 20 2016 1:53 PM

Remembering that I have seen the list of software revisions & new features somewhere some time in the past, I spent quite a while looking for it, in vain. It's not on the Beoplay site as you would expect.

It's on the B&O Beosound 35 support pages. There, maybe I can now find it in the future...

--mika

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Fruts replied on Tue, Dec 20 2016 7:06 PM

Factory Reset did not do the trick.

BUT.. A very friendly B&O dealer in Zwolle sended me A6 Firmware 1.9xxx as a file.
Manualy installed it and.......Succes at last ... :-)

Now i am verry happy, and will spend some evenings figuring out how things work..

Thanks for al replays.

If someone is intrested in the Firmware file: sfupdate-release-1.9.502.209859068

Mail me

 

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tournedos:

Remembering that I have seen the list of software revisions & new features somewhere some time in the past, I spent quite a while looking for it, in vain. It's not on the Beoplay site as you would expect.

It's on the B&O Beosound 35 support pages. There, maybe I can now find it in the future...

If you happen to know, what does: 

  • Added support for Spotify music service on Google Cast

mean?

(As far as I know I already could cast to my Essence from the Spotify before (!) the 19th December update.

I usually use the (Spotify) Connect feature - only plus point using Cast would be that I can group the Essence with my ChromeCast Audio.)

MM

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tournedos replied on Tue, Dec 20 2016 10:44 PM

Millemissen:

If you happen to know, what does: 

  • Added support for Spotify music service on Google Cast

mean?

(As far as I know I already could cast to my Essence from the Spotify before (!) the 19th December update.

I usually use the (Spotify) Connect feature - only plus point using Cast would be that I can group the Essence with my ChromeCast Audio.

No idea. I only have the non-paid Spotify account and it refuses to give me any fancy Connect thingies or direct casting on piePad. I get AirPlay though.

For some reason, my A6 doesn't show up as a "connected device" in the Google Home app whereas my "real" Chromecast does, and Google's instructions on linking a new device don't make any sense. Yet I can still cast audio to the A6 from all Chromecast-enabled apps (except Spotify). Perhaps I should do a reset as well...

@Fruts glad you got it sorted! Maybe the jump in revisions was too large for the automatic update. 1.3 is old.

--mika

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