Spotify Connect arrives in alot of B&O products

steve1977:

And is it possible to distribute a GVA Spotify stream to other NL speakers?

Sadly no, and I don't expect this to change. 

When you start a Spotify stream through GVA it will always start the stream as a Chromecast stream. It is not possible to use Multiroom with a Chromecast stream. 

For this to change we need either Google to allow GVA to start a Spotify Connect stream (Never going to happen, as this is a direct competitor to their own Chromecast), or Google should allow Chromecast to be used in Multiroom. The latter could be the way forward, but there might be technical limitations at play here. Chromecast can not extend to more speakers without using a pre-defined group of speakers at the moment. 

So basically what you are seeking is a mix of the Chromecast and Multiroom functionality. For this to happen Google needs to change things, and B&O needs to implement it. Not something I see happening anytime soon, primarily because B&O doesn't have the power to make Google change. 

Talking about product firmware update, did the Core finally receive an update at the end of the day?

I have seen posts about a Core update being rolled out at the same time than the other products when Spotify connect was activated on some of them, I have seen about posts related to bugs introduced by the Core update that was withdrawn at some point, and I have seen an update available on mine, that I didn't install, but since I don't see anymore an update available for my Core which is still at version 1.11.46587

Feedback appreciated.

My 3 core's are now at 1.12.47460

Raeven:

My 3 core's are now at 1.12.47460

Many thanks, I'll open a ticket with B&O to understand why no update is available for mine.

 

I manually updated mine to 1.12.47108 October 14th, from the same version you have.

Got an automatic update to 1.12.47640 on October 26th.

Have you tried updating using the "old" web interface in the web?

Mikael:

Have you tried updating using the "old" web interface in the web?

Yep, not better.

I guess the notification for an available update disappeared when they released 1.12.47640 shortly after 1.12.47108, they may have not reset the versions table :-)

EDIT: Solved after a power cycle of my Core. BeoTool was seing an update available what drove me to power cycle the Core that was surely stuck somewhere in identifying the software update availability.

Hi Mikael, Can you confirm Spotify Connect is now available and working on the Beovision Eclipse gen2 (GX)? Thanks!

So all older products got an update, besides the Essence MKI?

Same question here. User TWG (who owns/owned a BS Essence Mk I) mentioned on 16Oct2021 that the software on the Beoplay A9 Mk I was updated.

I thought that the Beoplay A9 Mk I and the BS Essence Mk I shared the same "audio engine", so I would expect the same software update to be available for both.

@TWG: do you still have your BS Essence Mk I?  If so, was its software updated past the (infamous) "last" version 4189?

 

Many thanks in advance,

Lawrence

Hi Lawrence,

yes, I still have my Essence and they both still show version 4189.

Fascinating… thank you for confirming, TWG.

Do you happen to know what version the Beoplay A9 Mk I is on, or was that someone else’s device?