HEOS Home System

[Sonnie Parker]

I am currently trying HEOS at home and figured I'd log my experience.

I started with a couple of Denon Home 150 speakers and used my Android phone to set them up. I could not get the first one out of the box to set up. It was already placed in the kitchen and plugged in, so I grabbed the other one and headed to my cubbyhole office. Plugged it in and started the process. However, I actually looked at the back to see the button I was pushing and then realized why the kitchen unit was not connecting to the network. Duh... there are two buttons on the back. The top button is Connect, and the bottom button is for Bluetooth. So... finally got them set and started selecting some music sources. Pretty cool.

I've now moved to the tablet and have the HEOS app set up there. Since it will be plugged in all the time, I'm using a Google app called Screen Alive to keep it live for 24 hours since the last activity.

Yep... Angie seems to like the idea of swapping the sunroom system over to HEOS. She especially likes having music for the cat while we are away from home (imagine that). Now I'll have to order more speakers and the receiver for the back porch.

 

[phillihp23]

HEOS is so convenient. I have been using it for years.
Currently 3 HEOS Denon AVR, a HEOS 150 and 250 speaker and a HEOS amp.

 

[Sonnie Parker]

So why use the HEOS amp... is that in case you have some passive speakers you want to use with HEOS?

 

[Sonnie Parker]

Loving the tablet setup...

 

[phillihp23]

So why use the HEOS amp... is that in case you have some passive speakers you want to use with HEOS?

Yes, in my side room I have two floor speakers that I run with the HEOS amp. I have an older model that ran about $400 HEOS HS2.

 

[Todd Anderson]

They've done a lot right with HEOS. I think the user interface is great.

I don't have it throughout my home like you're trying to achieve, Sonnie. But we do use it in our gym. It works 98% of the time, with the occasional unexplainable hiccup. I have it setup with a Denon AVR (SR7102, I think?)... and love how we can play tunes and pass through video at the same time. Gives yo access to music and - say - sports at the same time.

 

[Sonnie Parker]

Yeah, just since hooking it up yesterday afternoon and running it for several hours yesterday and this morning, it's been flawless with these two Denon Home 150 speakers. They're awesome for background music.

 

[Sonnie Parker]

OOPS!!! I may have spoken too soon. HEOS has been working all day just fine. It's been on Jazz all day. I come in and press The Bridge on the app, and it times out. I've spent about an hour trying to figure it out. I now have Internet Radio playing but can't get SiriusXM to play. I've tried rebooting everything a couple of times.

Internet Radio is playing fine on the tablet, but when I try to access it via my phone, I get Service is not responding over and over.

I wanted this to work so bad, but if this happens to my wife just from trying to change channels... yep... she'll have a hissyfit for sure.

 

[Sonnie Parker]

Okay... user error? Apparently, Angie and I both can't be logged into our SiriusXM app at the same time. I'm not sure how yet, but apparently, we were both logged in at the same time and when I tried to change channels, it kicked me out. Then SiriusXM had some internal issues, and I could not create another login, or something another... still not sure because when I called XM, they couldn't access my account because their system was down, and I couldn't log in either. Hopefully, we'll get it resolved tomorrow. I have to login to XM with another username, but I don't see anywhere to login to XM within the HEOS app.

 

[Sonnie Parker]

All good. I got logged in with another username, and it's working again. I suppose it was my fault.

 

[AJ Soundfield]

Lawbreakers

 

[Sonnie Parker]

Yeah... well, we got put in virtual jail temporarily.

 

[Sonnie Parker]

This has been working flawlessly all day, every day, since the one time we tried to cheat legally and got unfairly caught. I mean, really... we have a right to 4 online logins... just because we tried to use one of them twice? C'mon man!

 

[Todd Anderson]

This sounds like a relatively happy ending... I mean, at least it's working!!! With technology these days, that's a rarity!

How in the world does Sirus have their system go down??? That can't happen. Their entire business is based on their system being up! Crazy

 

[Sonnie Parker]

Yeah... it was a freak thing. The entire system wasn't down; it was only part of it, and it was the part that connected HEOS. I could access SiriusXM from other means, but not from HEOS. Even when I called them, they could not look at the issue because they could not log in to any accounts. I guess it was some login issue where HEOS could not log in to SiriusXM because their login system was down. It was short-lived, though. It's been flawless since. It did shut down one time due to inactivity, which is expected.

 

[Todd Anderson]

I occasionally have a hiccup accessing HEOS if I’ve been playing tunes from my phone via AirPlay to another Apple device. But, usually, all I need to do is close applications and restart my HEOS receiver.

 

[AJ Soundfield]

I could access SiriusXM from other means

Was working fine for me in vehicle yesterday, must have been a streaming glitch

 

[Sonnie Parker]

I thought it had hiccupped on me yesterday afternoon, but they were working on the Internet lines, and the Internet went out for about 30 minutes. I did have to reset the devices to get them working again. They don't like losing their connections.