The Bluetooth speaker was a mistake

[DanielBoondock]

I hate this thing, it’s the one thing in this trailer I don’t like. 

Problems with it …

• Oliver has the wrong manual in the University
• Lots of dumb LED’s.
  • First is the power light right over the curbside head of the bed, I stuck a playing card over it 
  • It does a bunch of dumb color changing out of the speakers while it plays (I can’t see anything in the manual on how to turn it off, if the manual is similar enough)
• DVD input has a terrible lib sync lag - it’s awful, unusable 
• It has to be manually turned on and off
• When it comes on it makes this stupid “bwooowaaaooom” sound

I see they have it for 2027, from a ‘26 owner, don’t, just don’t. The idea I heard is you can connect to this from your phone or whatever and bring it outside. Why? If somebody really wants that they can get their own speaker. 

On my project list is to upgrade this. I’m thinking a simple two speaker system - right behind TV. Hardwired - no lag. 

[topgun2]

11 hours ago, DanielBoondock said:

Problems with it

Have you submitted a Service Ticket?  If not, how is Oliver supposed to know of your problems with it?  Perhaps they can help and even if they can't help, they have valuable input.

11 hours ago, DanielBoondock said:

Lots of dumb LED’s

I also dislike the number of LED's in my Ollie.  However, other than a playing card a much more elegant solution for those of us who are a bit light sensitive is to use something like THIS.

 

11 hours ago, DanielBoondock said:

It does a bunch of dumb color changing out of the speakers while it plays (I can’t see anything in the manual on how to turn it off, if the manual is similar enough)

Again - see my first point above.  Its hard to believe that there isn't a fairly simple way to change this function.

11 hours ago, DanielBoondock said:

DVD input has a terrible lib sync lag - it’s awful, unusable 

Again - a Service Ticket is your highway to (possible) solution.

Finally - Perhaps you have not read THIS POST on the Forum.  Please note the 8th post down from the top of page three in this thread where Oliver has sent an "Open Letter" to owners-members of the Forum.  Of special note is the 7th (last) paragraph of the letter.

Bill

Edited 1 hour ago by topgun2
grammer

[DanielBoondock]

Thanks @topgun2, didn’t think of a service request but I’m not sure there’s much so solve other than a different solution, it’s just a design decision It’s entirely possible this is just me and others are happy with the speakers; I put the post up to see if that’s the case. Please chime in if you like it. I had heard they originally went with this from owner feedback so its probably just me. 

On the technical issues …

On the LED’s they can be disabled via a button according to the manual, which is for a somewhat different model. This model doesn’t have that button. 

On the lip sync lag you can set a bluetooth delay in the TV to a negative value. However the sync is fine for the built in apps, it’s just external HDMI. So I’d need to switch it back and forth.