This has been cooking in my brain for some time now.
There must be a lot of unused Beolink Video type 1615 boxes out there since most people don't use CRT TV's anymore.
Also there must a lot of MCL2A with the corresponding IR eye's that has become obsolete as most people have moved to newer technology.
But what if some of these things could be used?
I have already done some tests with the use of the Beolink Video 1615 and Beomaster 4500 with certain software revisions as a link room both proving that the 1615 can be used for other stuff than CRT TV's.
In this post we discovered that an MCL IR eye could be connected to the AUX connection of a Beomaster 5500 and do some controlling.
This got me thinking if it could do the same if the IR eye is connected to the AAL connection on the Beolink Video 1615.
And it can. 5V has to be supplied to the IR eye from an external power source.
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I does not seem to matter what option settings I make for the link room, but for some reason I can only start the Audio master by pressing Link + an audio command.
Furthermore there is no voume control in the link room.
So what can this be used for?
I actually see a lot of possibilities:
- make vintage audio systems without link capabilities into link room by supplying the audio to their AUX socket. Volume control is done on the vintage products own volume control.
- Make systems like Beosound 1 (CD version) and Beosund Century into link room by supplying the audio to their AUX socket. Aux has to be selected as a source first, but there is no conflicting remote commands like double volume control involved.
- Use Beosystem 3500/4500/5500/6500/7000 and Beocenter 8500/9000/9300/9500 as link room systems by by supplying the audio to their AUX socket. Aux has to be selected as a source first, but there is no conflicting remote commands like double volume control involved. Audio aux from the system must no be connected to the converter.
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