Had I had the speakers (including app) evaluated right after your purchase out my frustration with the app to a 1 star rating. I will not understand why only unfinished software is delivered. Okay Christmas season or not, but here it is also about brand image, which should not be entirely care manufacturers.
Since the Speaker must relate directly to the app in relation to the rating certainly evaluate the package.
Had me 1x Omni 10 (bathroom) and 1x Adapt (living room) purchased in November as a birthday present.
The decor was relatively simple and the stream from the HTC One M8 worked well right away. The entire device may have taken 10 minutes.
However, there were constant disconnects when both speakers are used in parallel.
I have then another 10 Omni bought for an extra room between living room and bathroom in the hope that the boxes set up similar to the Sonos system their own WiFi network. However, this is not the case and there was even more disconnections and partially because I could see the app no longer be used because the speakers were no longer listed in the app.
After a long search, I have this error then found and it was up to the Fritz box repeater in my apartment. Once my phone was no longer directly connected to the Fritz box, but through the repeater, the app lost the speakers that you configured.
My experience is that during initial necessarily it should be ensured that a possible repeater is switched off and the boxes initially all be configured in one place, where the router outputs the signal.
After ordering, I have the speakers then distributed in the apartment and turned on the repeater.
Since the system is relatively stable and I can operate the speakers in parallel.
To the (advertised) Funtionalitäten:
With unrivaled sound quality, easy wireless installation and complete control thanks to the Controller App your music will never stop playing.
-> Unless it receives a WhatsApp message. This causes a sporadic failure playback :)
Stream different songs in every room
-> Try it, you can, however, work currently streaming a song in the rooms and not different
Integration of network drives (NAS):
-> This has most disappointed me. His music collection you will sure have not entirely on the phone, but network drives are not supported by the app.
Delighted me that Harman Kardon has answered my vote in PlayStore and announced in the first post that an integration of network drives through an update in "late March" should happen. A week later they have changed this post again and he is now "soon possible".
I go simply once from "late March" from ... flawlessly probably later in June :)
Integration of Deezer:
Also probably later New features in Kär1 / 4ze verfä1 / 4bar ..... probably then in June: -> Here you get when choosing the functionality in the app's release.
App as a music player:
-> Well .... Christmas came well ahead of schedule. It is integrated into the app, a music player without Vorspulfunktion within the Lieder..ohne Equalizer and other "unnecessary" frills :). The bass-heavy Omni 10 might be desirable.
Conclusion:
+ Speakers are great .... offer a very good surround sound
+ Basic idea is great and the basic idea itself represents a very good alternative to the Sonos system
- Software version (functionality and stability) of the app is completely unsatisfactory
It remains only for the next update of the PlayStore to wait ... If all the functions work, I am willing to increase the star. As long as only 2.5 stars. Do not go ... therefore. 2
