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Hopefully some kind soul who is brighter than me when it comes to these things can offer some assistance?
I have a pair of BeoLab 5 connected to a non B&O receiver which work superbly with a BeoLab 7-2 centre, BeoLab 6000 back and BeoLab 6000 surrounds.
The only issue is that while all other speakers turn on and off as required (The BL7-2 via a cable from sounds Heavenly) the BeoLab 5s need to be turned on and off using the "Radio" command, and then "Standby" from a Beo4.
While this works OK it means I need a Beo4 in the room which is a bit excessive when there is no other B&O kit in there. It also isn't as elegant as I would like when everything else is controlled by Control4. I would like a single button to turn everything on, set the lights etc, and again to turn off. Currently everything works apart from the Lab 5s.
I found the link below and we use a Global Cache device to send the ir wirelessly from the Control4 controller to the BL5. This works brilliantly for turning them on using the "Radio" codes in the text file in the link, but the "standby" command wont turn them off. It will however turn off BeoVisions in other rooms, so I assume the Audio Standby, and Video standby commands are different?
The Global Cache won't learn the B&O commands. Any pointers on where I find the final code I need to get my system running as I would like it?
https://globalcache.zendesk.com/entries/21108422-bang-olufsen-beosound-IR-codes
Thanks
rednik: It will however turn off BeoVisions in other rooms, so I assume the Audio Standby, and Video standby commands are different?
Yes they are (and there is also a separate "all-off" command, which eventually gets sent when you hold the standby button down).
Unfortunately I don't have any idea how you'd convert these to the format your remote needs, but anyway, the codes are (all 17 bits long commands):
Perhaps somebody at the other forum knows what to do with them - he would need to understand the coding format used by B&O though, so it isn't quite simple although you only need to change one bit from video-off to get audio-off.
EDIT: for fun I tried to decipher the Global Cache config file which was found behind your link. As far as I understand, the [POWER] command defined in it does actually send 0x10c, or the "audio off" command. Perhaps it's just not being programmed correctly?
--mika