Bluesound integration

The feature to control the Bluesound Multiroom System is integrated seamless into the IRControl System and merges to one single unit. For this, you register the whole Bluesound System as a Bluesound Gateway. The registration of your separate Bluesound Devices will be done directly in the configuration of the Bluesound System. More about the configuration you can read in chapter Bluesound System.

The making of a layout to control the Bluesound System is komplex. Therefore we have included in actual version of IRControl only a predefined fix Layout Page. By the way: it is created only with some special Layout controls as a normal IRControl Layout page. To activate the Bluesound Page, you have to create a normal layout page (see chapter Pages). Then you have to open it in the Layout Editor and (see chapter Layout Editor) For this you have to start the weehl menu in the right upper corner and call the function „Predefined Loyouts“ then select the Page Type „Bluesound Control“.

Now you have to choose your Bluesound System by pressing the search button and press to Ok Button , so the changes will be active. Now the Bluesound Control will be generated with a grey area on you layout site. With this the configuration and layout for conntrolling a Bluesound System is complete. And remember that you cannot put any other control to a layout page containing a Bluesound System control. They wil be ingnored by the system if you register some anyway.

At runtime your Bluesound layout looks as follows:

The main part of the page is used to show the list of CDs with their CD Cover Images. With a moving gesture on the screen (up and down) you can scroll thru your colleciton of streaming data. On the right side, the list with the tracks which will be played (Track List) is placed. For playing a streamed CD simply click on the CD Cover and move the image to the track list (drag % drop). If you do this, 2 different areas will be displayed, one to add an album or track (append at the end of the acutal track list), the other do play the album or track immidiatley (the track list will be deleted, the track or album places at 1st position of the track list

With a double click on a CD cover the details of the album as well as the tracks wil be displayed. Also single tracks could be added to playlist in the same way (Drag & Drop).

With the sort button you could change the order of the tracks within the tracklist. Whenn preissing die wastebin button all items in track list will be deleted.

With the search button you can search in your collection of streamed albums with a full text. When pressing the button a second time, the search feature will be disabled again.

With the genre button (music note) you can filter the list of albums with a music style. The list of genres defined in your album collection will be displayed for selection. The filter can be deleted if you press the genre button a second time and press the Delete button.

If you press the menu button in the left upper corner, the system control of the Bluesound System wil be displyed:

Durch Drücken des Menu-Knopfes in der linken oberen Ecke wird die Steuerung des Bluesound-Systemes angezeigt:

The 4 buttons for the music source of the Bluesound system will be displayed depending on the system configuration of your Bluesound devices. On the right side the Volume Slider with whitch you can control the volume of the selected Bluesound System. Below there is the list with the Bluesound Devices configured on your Bluesound System. With the connect button you can select a Device or link selverals together to a group. The first selected Device will act as master sysetem and take the control over the other devices in the group. To release a device from a group simply select the device and press the link button again.