Bang and Olufsen Beotime - Bang and Olufsen's silliest ever product, or a piece of design genius?
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Bang & Olufsen fans, your journey starts here! Steve from Sounds Heavenly looks Bang and Olufsen's craziest product, Beotime - an alarm clock shaped like a flute that also can operate your lights by accessing a hidden menu!
Is this the World's most pointless gadget, or B&O at their best? Please add your views to the comments below!
Here is the guide to adding the hidden menu to Beotime:-
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Here is the review of Beotime on the BeoWorld website (as promised in the video):-
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I have one, and it is gobsmackinly beautiful.
Yes it is a real work of art and very enjoyable to use!
When it came out, i bought it. Very convenient to wake up from a Beosound, Beocenter or beosystem without need to program a timer in the system. Extremely convenient and a nice eyecatcher 🤗
Yes, I still use mine every day, I love it!
Using Beotime alarm clock makes the waking up for work so easier every day 👌
Yes it is a great product, really useful
One of these just came up for auction on a site I use, I’d never heard of it but was immediately reminded of a product my friend Euan designed when we were at the Glasgow School of Art in 2000. It’s shockingly similar! He designed it for Sony and it was a cylindrical brushed metal wand, that had an end press-able button as it’s main function switch, a twistable segmented body for volume and various functions, and lcd panel displays built directly into the wand. It was actually a more elegant solution that this beotime with its stuck on screens, but conceptually identical! It controlled all connected media, and Euan has also preempted the ‘connected’ household by blueprinting how the wand would/could be used to control lighting, air conditioning etc. And yes, it was also an alarm clock! Euan’s design preceded this by almost a decade, and at the GSA we had links with B&O so it’s quite a shock to see the beotime. I hope he registered his design - or perhaps took it further and it ended up with B&O! Will do some digging certainly.
Wow, that is a great story - I would be very interested to see a picture of your friend's design!
Thank you, Steve 👍 Supremely machined bit of kit.
Yes, this is a really well made item
Excellent review!! I've owned one for a little while it turns on my beovision 6-26 in the morning on volume 20 not loud enough to alarm your senses but it wakes me to every single day and it's the last button I press at night to switch the tv off love the fact that I don't have to scramble around for the remote, never knew about the serect menu so thank you very much Steve, Brilliant information mate 👌👍
Thanks, glad the review was helpful! Beotime is a superb product, I couldn't be without mine!
my opinion "a piece of design genius" I bought one after the video :), your video was encouraging
Thanks! I agree, this is my favourite B&O product and I love it - pure genius!
I love it so much!
We need more products like this from B&O ;-)
Wow. Thanks for another great video. I've had a Beotime for about 3 years now and it's just sat unused as a beautiful display piece/clock and nothing else, which is a shame really. It is a pain to use as a normal remote but the new light feature you have shown as suddenly sparked my interest in it again. I have an LC2 and I can see the new feature being used as a good security feature for when I'm away from home for the evening. The sunrise feature is especially nice too. I guess up to now my Beotime is probably the one of the my most admired but underused pieces, but that may well change now. Thanks again.
Thanks! Glad to hear that I am helping to get your Beotime back into use ;-)
I like your Beovision Harmony wings in cloth behind you :p
Great video, great iconic product that's fairly unknown :D
Thanks! I think Beotime will be one of those products that people think "I wish I had bought one before it was too late"
Sounds Heavenly dear Steve, does this mean I can change my IR eye of my BeoVision 4 with an Essence without losing functionality? They do fit in the same wallring. Would I be able to connect it to my BeoSystem 2?
It would be very interesting f you could do a tour of your own b and o products. And how you use them in your house. As well as setup procedure
Good idea, thanks for this! I will try to cover this in a video soon
I have the Beotime and love it! Question I have is there a way the alarm can activate your B&O equipment WITHOUT the chime going off?
Hi, unfortunately, the only way to use the alarm without the chime is if the chime fails - this happened to my own Beotime a couple of years ago and I prefer it this way.....
Thank you so much for reply.
@@BangOlufsenHome :-)
I love it. Brilliant. The only thing is that of course technology is far better today, so the displays seem slow.
I think it is a piece of design genius, I also love it!
But the display is lcd. Never wears out ( like the vacuum fluorescent display of a beocenter 2 or beosound 4
Hi Steve, Thank you for your video. Very informative. I found my beotime in the attic recently and now dusting it off. I wonder if you could help me replacing the battery. I have taken the cover as you have shown but there is another plastic cover beneath that which I do not want to force but seems stuck in place. any help would be welcome. Thanks. Mark
Glad you enjoyed the video. There should be a rectangular piece of black plastic on the back of the stand that unclips and this has two prongs that fit into the holes on the cover at the end of the tube to unscrew the cover. Please remove the magnetic stand from the Beotime to remove the batteries, otherwise the magnet will hold the batteries in place
Thanks Steve for getting back to me. I have got the cap off and then have a further piece of plastic with a circular emblem flattened out at the bottom. I will try and post a picture
Unfortunately I have a BeoVision 11 in the bedroom so don’t know how to wake up this product and the alarm is to gentle so only gets used as a display piece but still love it and will never part with but will definitely have to look into a lighting source for the sunrise function. Thank you for the great review and now a new option and I never knew that’s how you opened up the battery compartment, always just pressed my thumb against and turned, always thought it was an annoying piece of plastic that never sat quite right.
Beotime should be able to wake up your Beovision 11 via any of the video commands in the alarm list - you can set Beotime to turn on the TV, internet radio or a DVD/blu-ray disc to wake you up if you wish!
Thank you Steve, I’ll look into this further but only have it connected via wi-fi, sky and AppleTV no aerial so always figured that it would just turn on the television and not play. Have got really excited since watching this video and purchased a Lutron Rania B&O IR Dimmer for the sunrise function to help with those 05:30 calls especially in the winter. It says on the packaging for Beo 4/5 but no mention of the BeoRemote One, don’t suppose you know if it’s compatible with this remote? Thank you for the great content, really enjoying the influx of great content and the education I’m receiving even on product I thought I knew well
@@4DR14NCR41G Thanks! The B&O version of Lutron Rania will work with BeoRemote One - but you do need to put the remote into IR mode instead of bluetooth mode. The Rania does need to have at least one incandescent bulb fitted (to give it a minimum load of 50 watts or more) so that it can function. You can then add dimmable LED bulbs as well if you wish, as long as one normal bulb is fitted.
Purchased the last BV11 2016 which came with the old three button presets and not the four so believe it’s IR only and no Bluetooth and only use old halogen GU10 recessed spotlights due to preferring their warmth over the LEDS which I believe are incandescents? Brought so many of these once I found them hard to get hold of that my great grandchildren will be inheriting them
@@4DR14NCR41G Perfect!
I have one myself , but don’t use it this much.
I don’t know how to link it to my Beosound equipment anymore.
Lost the manual after several movings to another place.
An other ( odd) question I have for you;
I have 4 Beolab 3 speakers( the Qubes, dice) and the outside grey plastic where the 3 speakers are situated in, has deteriorated in a sticky surface that keeps dust and dirt;
How can clean them and get them in a normal state back?
Put varnish over the plastic; after cleaned?
Would love to hear your solution for this problem; they are about 20 years old , but very good sound quality.
Kind regards
Bart Creemers
Sweden
Hi Bart, this great remote can work with any B&O products that use IR commands (so anything that works with a Beo4 or Beolink 1000 remote). Sorry I don't know about restoring the finish of the speakers, I suggest asking on the forum at www.beoworld.org as someone there is sure to know!
I have one of these also, bought it in Kansas City when it came out. I wanted an easy way to use my audio system as an alarm, and this was a cheap alternative to using my Beolink 5000 remote. Unfortunately the Beotime quit working after a year or so. Dissapointing!
Sorry to hear that - Beotime was a great idea, but it is quite a delicate item. Mine has survived over a decade in a house with small children, but I do worry that it may stop working at some point..... I would encourage you to try to find another Beotime in good condition, maybe you were unlucky with the first one.
hahaha i have this one sir thats funny this is my lovely clock but i am a watchmaker thats why i love it so much.. did you see that somebody made a wall clock of a b &o turntable looks awesome
Yes, I also have the wall clock - B&O made these using their own turntable platters!
did you also see the recordplayer clock darn i like that one so much i need it hahaha
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@@ElderPinto254 Yes, it looks amazing!
Would have loved to hear it! Do you know of an audio link to that, Steve?
Is it the Beotime alarm clock that you wish to hear?
@@soundsheavenly yessir
Thanks Steve. Great video. Does the Beotime have any functionality with B&O’s latest products - Eclipse, Beosound 1/2 etc?
Thanks! Unfortunately, the latest B&O products like the Eclipse and Beosound 1/2 can't receive infrared remote commands, although you can use Beotime with BeoSound Essence (2nd generation with IR-eye), BeoSound Core (IR version) and BeoSound 35.
BeoTime 😍👍 I have 4, in each room to control my Classic BeoProducts.
They are superb! The nicest remote control I have ever used ;-)
@@antidote234 yes
hello Steve , I bought one Beotime after I saw your video. I want to know does it has alarm by it self and does it produce sound by it self with out any B&O sound system or it only operate B&O music system to make the alarm sound ?
Hi, yes the Beotime should have its own alarm chime, so it can work as an alarm clock without any B&O products in the room. The chime can sometimes fail as the Beotime gets older, but when new this should be working.
@@soundsheavenly yes my beotime does not make sound, but maybe I made wrong setting what should be the setting to make chime sound
@@TheGodfather2504 Hi, if your Beotime does not make a sound when the alarm goes off, then it is faulty - the chime sound cannot be disabled so it will always sound when the alarm has been set. I suggest contacting the seller if you have purchased this recently, as this is a faulty item (assuming that the alarm has been set correctly).
@@soundsheavenly unfortunately I bought it from ebay :(
@@TheGodfather2504 It should still be fine to use for controlling B&O products and B&O compatible lighting dimmers, it just won't work on its own without the chime function working.
Does anyone know how to remove the battery to replace it or see if there is something broken?
Yes, use the small plastic cover from the table stand which has two keys fitted - these go into the battery cover at the end of the Beotime and allow the cover to be unscrewed. You can then remove the batteries.
there I don't have this table support from your video but thanks anyway
Hi can you help me I have one of these but nothing appears on the screen I won it so how can I know if I'm connecting wrong or it's broken
Hi, the first things to do is put new batteries in. If this doesn’t work you need to take it to a B&O store to get it checked out
@@soundsheavenly ok obrigado
Hi steve, i dont know why my beotime was stuck and i cant take it out. is there anyway to take it out?
Maybe the spring on the button has broken? Best to get a trained B&O repairman to fix it, this isn’t an item you can repair at home
Thanks Steve, unfortunately B&O in Indonesia already closed, might bring it to Australia on my next visit @@soundsheavenly
What about the watch remote? Can you get it?
Hi, I have never seen one of those! Please let me know if you ever manage to find one!
How about simply how to set the time Steve?
Yes, it is great as a stylish clock, but even better when used with a B&O music system and remote control lights!
Do I need to buy a remote for my b&o cd player if I got this clock? I figured the time setting. This item isn't for the simple minded that's for sure
Hi, you can use the Beotime instead of a regular B&O remote control plus it also works as an alarm clock!
I have one and was always called the flute....
Yes, my family also know our Beotime as the flute ;-)
if you play a magic tune on it you get 3 wishes ...
🤣👍I wish for some more B&O... 😎
i have this “silliest “product😂
;-)
A true fan :D
Why does B&O not make stuff like this anymore? Everything they turn out nowadays is so NORMAL... Ughhh...
Have you seen the new Halo remote? That has the potential to be the next "Beotime"...
Hello Steve. I only just now stumbled over the Beotime video. What a waste of a lot of money. Not to mention awkward to use........ I bought a number of them. All B&O systems are incomplete without one or two. They in Struer excelled themselves on this one. Probably without even knowing it. Those who missed the Beotime then, just don't know what they missed. Bw Mike
Thanks for your views Mike, personally I love Beotime but I admit that it won’t appeal to everyone!
@@soundsheavenly Hello Steve. Are you able to help? I have expanded my AUDIO system to include an additional BL2000 in room three. BS9000 in lounge, BL2000 in bedroom.The BL2000 in room 3 will not come out of standby and communicate over the data bus, via remote or buttons. I feel there is a conflict of A-OPT. Having spent hours reasearching on the Inet, I have found nothing in the way of help. Your ideas would be warmly welcomed. Bw Mike.
Hi, I suggest swapping over the speakers to see if the same speaker is faulty wherever it is placed, or if the cable to room three is the issue
@@soundsheavenly I have just spent 15mins replying only to loose the reply trying to find the answer button! Steve it is afterall Sunday. I will contact you tomorrow.