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The Beo5 remote control is customised to give easy access to the Bang & Olufsen products in your home. When you purchase a Beo5, your Bang & Olufsen retailer programs it to match your individual product setup. This allows for a personal design for each user and ensures that all buttons in your Beo5 are relevant to your specific setup.
All the buttons in your customised Beo5 are explained in the personal Beo5 glossary. About this guide … This Guide describes the basic principles of how to use your Beo5 remote control. As an additional help to the Guide, a personal Beo5 button...
How to use the display of your remote control. How to operate the Beo5 ball, 10 How to operate the wheel and buttons of the Beo5 ball. Operation of other products, 12 Find out the possiblities of operating non-Bang & Olufsen products with your Beo5 remote control.
When fully charged, your remote control is ready for use. To activate the Beo5 display, just pick up your Beo5 or touch the screen lightly, and the display lights up. Then select a button by a press on the screen.
Displays digits to select, for example, a radio station or channel number. Press again to return to the previous screen. Backs up through Beo5 display screens. Accesses buttons to ‘set the scene’ around your Bang & Olufsen setup, for example to control speakers and stand positions –...
Rewind through tracks, playlists and recordings Back up through menus, press and hold to exit menus completely How to operate the Beo5 ball … Step through for example channels, stations, recordings and tracks. Press and hold for continuous step Step through for example channels, stations, recordings and tracks.
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… the buttons in the centre The centre buttons on Beo5 are mainly used for menu operation. The coloured buttons serve different purposes depending on the product you are operating. Press the volume wheel in front of the colour you wish to activate...
Operation of other products Other selected non-Bang & Olufsen products such as lights, curtains and blinds can be operated with Beo5 as well – some of them via the supported Home Automation System, and others directly from Beo5. Contact your Bang & Olufsen retailer for further information about operating non-Bang &...
Bang & Olufsen products, all operation may be described as carried out with Beo4. Differences between Beo4 and Beo5 that may affect your understanding of these Guides are described here. Beo4 list Beo4 list buttons translated The Beo4 remote control had extra ‘buttons’...
14 days standby time or three to four hours of intensive use. A text in the display indicates when it is time to recharge your Beo5 remote control. Recharge battery ‘Recharge Battery’ will be indicated in the display title when the battery...
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– After 10 seconds, the backlight is dimmed – After 20 seconds, Beo5 will go into standby mode and display a black screen To change these settings, refer to page 17 in this Guide.
The Beo5 remote control has a Setup menu that allows you to alter a number of settings yourself. To enter the Beo5 Setup menu, press and hold the standby button while pressing the centre button on the ball. Beo5 Setup menu …...
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If your retailer has set up a channels menu on your Beo5, you may also change the numbers associated with channel names in the channels or stations menu.
To clean the Beo5 display, use a mild window cleaning fluid. To retain the optimum performance of the display, make sure that no traces of the cleaning fluid are left...
For more help If you have any questions regarding the daily use of your Beo5 remote control you may … … find the answer in your customised Beo5 Glossary that has short explanations to each of the functions and buttons in your specific Beo5 setup.
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