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Is there a APPLE MAC equivalent please?
I don’t think that BeoPlayer was released for Mac, but have a look here: http://www.odlund.se/bmlink/index.html
Perhaps some Mac/Beoport users can confirm?
In the meantime, I will be re-attempting Beoplayer/Beoport PC installation later today! ?
I do have internet connection (obviously!).
Do you also have a firewall? Glitch
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried temporarily disabling the Windows firewall. I need to check/try the modem/router next.
Tried again a few different options with/without driver pre-installed, and accepting non-signed.
I keep getting this message at the end of Beoplayer installation:
I do have internet connection (obviously!).
I read somewhere in the archived forum about a potential DNS conflict – if so is there any possible workaround?
Thanks Yann – I’ll give that a go! (although I don’t think it’s actually getting to the driver installation phase, unless that is part of the Beoplayer install before the Beoport is connected, who knows??)
Sorry but I don’t have anything else to suggest with regard to getting the extra radio stations to show!
However, I have now dug out my Beoport (Beolink PC2) and have tried setting it up with my PC (Windows 10 32-bit). I think that last time I had the Beoport working was about 2014 with my desktop running Windows 7.
I uninstalled Beoplayer, cleared the Registry entries and then re-installed Beoplayer. The installation notes say that you should wait until prompted to connect the USB cable from the Beoport to the PC. However, this prompt never happened, nor did the B&O Registration request that I remember from first setup. Consequently the computer does not seem to be recognising the Beoport, and the all-important ‘Advanced’ tab is missing from the Beoplayer CONFIG menu.
My first thought was a driver issue, but of course the PC won’t even try to download a driver until the USB connection is made. I did find a Beoport PC2 driver online, but it made no difference.
My second thought was a Windows 10 compatibility issue, so I tried setup with an old Vista powered laptop. This didn’t work either.
I suspect that there is supposed to be some sort of ‘handshake’ between the Beoplayer and a B&O ‘Beoportal’ that it no longer running, prior to connecting the Beoport. This could of course be related to the N.RADIO issue experienced by Beomaster11 above.
So does anyone have any expert knowledge about whether Beoport can be made to work in 2022?
(Please no comments about how it would be much better to use a more modern digital media system – I do have QNAP NAS and AirPort express for that – I am just trying to satisfy my curiosity!)
The conclusion: everything works perfectly!
That’s good to hear – thanks for letting us know!
So today I dug out the LC2 again. Co-incidentally I had also found my Beoport (Beolink PC2) in order to investigate further for the Beoport thread.
With the Beoport I had packed what I think is a Beosystem 3 sensor (I don’t think I had used it with the Beoport because I used a VX sensor instead).
Anyway, just as an experiment I thought I would try replacing the LC2’s IR board with the Beosystem 3 sensor. After a false start (where I got the IR and +5V wires reversed), I soldered it up and the IR control works very well.
Just for interest, here’s the inside of the Beosystem 3 sensor:
Also, if you look at the post by Elephant in this thread: https://archivedforum2.beoworld.co.uk/forums/p/10475/90936.aspx#90936
… it indicates that registration of hardware is required in order to ‘unlock’ more stations. Perhaps my desktop remembers that I have registered hardware in the past (buried in the registry somewhere!).
No simple way to edit as far as I know.
You could try navigating to: C:\Users\’User’\AppData\Roaming\BeoMediaDatabase\N.Radio
When I ran the .reg Registry update just now – at 2040hrs (on a fresh Beoplayer install) most of those files updated, and the Radiofile.DAT and Radiofile.IDX increase in size greatly.
If you open the Radiofile.DAT in notepad you will see the links to individual radio stations, but I am not sure how you would amend or add to them.
Sorry but I have run out of ideas!
Have you also connected any B&O hardware (Beoport?) – previous threads have said that this will initiate the increase in Radio stations visible.
I will experiment with Beoport/PC2 connected in the next few days – just for my own interest. Will leave feedback here.
To add to the above, there is something else you can try.
Navigate to C:\Program Files\Bang & Olufsen\BeoPlayer and look for a file called UpdateNotifier.exe
Double click to run a database update, whereupon you get this message:
And see if any more radio stations have appeared.
Can you confirm that there is still only one radio station per country shown?
As an experiment I just re-installed Beoplayer (including a registry clean up after the uninstall).
On initial re-installation there are no radio stations showing. The registry entry ‘LastUpdate’ is blank and there is no ‘UserID’ nor ‘Server URL’.
When I ran that Registry Editor file it added the ‘UserID’ and ‘Server ID’, but the ‘LastUpdate’ value was still blank.
A few minutes later all the (>1000) radio station started to appear, and on checking the Registry the ‘LastUpdate’ field was again showing ‘2021-11-15’.
You could try manually adding an ‘IntervalForCheckingUpdate’. Right click in the registry and chose ‘New’ D WORD (32-bit) value. Just name it ‘IntervalForCheckingUpdates’ and copy my Hex value of ’12c’.
(It goes without saying that you are editing your Registry at your own risk. I always carry out Registry backups before playing around!)
EDIT: I am pretty sure that the ‘IntervalForCheckingUpdates’ of 12c (300) corresponds to 300 seconds, hence it should check for updates every 5 minutes.
I think these are quite hard to come by!
Have you considered an add-on DAB+ radio module from here: https://shop.oneremote.dk/shop/69094-digital-radio-solutions-for-bo/
How does this actually work with a BM5?
Not sure – I have only ever used with just Beoport/PC2.
After I ran the Registry editor I left it running for a while, and experimented further today. Suddenly many other Radio stations appeared – over a thousand in UK alone!
If you look at the registry entries (see below – click to enlarge), there are two items of interest: There is an ‘IntervalForCheckingUpdates’ – I think the 300 value may be 300 minutes? Also it shows ‘Last Update’ being 2021-11-15, which may be the last time the radio dB was updated on the server, now downloaded to my Beoplayer.
I’d be interested to know what your registry states both now and after waiting a while.
Further to the above, have a look at this thread and maybe try the Registry Editor solution (gerard’s 5 Feb 19 post): https://archivedforum2.beoworld.co.uk/forums/t/34674.aspx
I must have used it at some point, because I had stored the .reg file on my computer for future use.
As a test I just re-installed Beoplayer on my PC. I got the same ‘Internet Connection Not Available’ messages again (but again I don’t have the Beoport/PC2 hardware attached). Once installed it took a few minutes for some N.RADIO stations to appear – one per country as before, as shown below on the left, with Denmark’s DR P3 playing:
I get those messages too, but I don’t have an actual Beoport/PC2 connected to my PC at the moment. N.RADIO works for me, but there are only a limited number of stations – one per country (but they play fine, so it must be connected to the internet).
From distant memory I think that if you install Beoplayer with a Beoport/PC2 and connect the cables at the specified time in the installation process, the software automatically asks you to ‘Register’ the SW online (with B&O?) This will then get rid of the ‘Internet Connection Not Available’ message and also allow N.RADIO to download a greater number of stations.
It might not be possible to Register the SW with B&O any more – I am not sure. I haven’t used it properly since about 2014.
I haven’t looked but you might be able to find a converter from a company like Atlona that will match/convert the frame rate without the hdmi conflict. Maybe put the question to their technical people?
If you are happy to keep using the BeoLink Passive to drive your speakers then there is no need to change.
There is no specific need to keep ML. Simply use the Beolink Passive’s PowerLink input and treat this as you would any other Active speaker.
If you need separate control of the bathroom speakers, then add an NL source with a Powerlink output.
Try here: https://www.avaservices.co.uk/
