Pulse Flex Stereo Pairing without LAN

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Andy Bernhart

• May 17, 2019 17:52

Hi! My questions is in regards to pairing two Pulse Flex for use outdoors without a LAN. I have two Flex and just got another battery pack for the second so I'd like to use them as a stereo pair now. I have been using Bluetooth to connect to a single flex. I have a Google Pixel 3 with the BlueOS app installed. From what I can see there might be a couple of options:

1. Wireless hotspot on my phone (would this consume data from my data plan?) linked to a Pulse Flex Group

2. Linking them with a cable from the headphone jack to the analog in.

I'd prefer to use a USB stick for the music, but I'm fine with using Bluetooth to stream from my phone. Could you please provide detailed instructions on how to set up one or both of these options? Thanks for your assistance. Summers here and I want my music outdoors! :)

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  Tony W.

  Product Support Manager

  • May 17, 2019 18:02
  • Edited

  Hi Andy

  Timely question as our head office is about to head out the door for Victoria Day (The unofficial start of summer) here in Canada...

  Interesting... but It won't work...

  1) Well it would theoretically work provided you had a second phone to actually set up the FLEXes as the single phone cannot be a Hot Spot and connect to the FLEX hot spot to redirect it to it's own hot spot at the same time

  2) I have never tried this - but if one is sent to Left, it will just rebroadcast the left to the other... so... you'd be listening to two left channels (which come to think of it might work if you are like me and dancing with two left feet). 

  Kidding aside, we have had issues with players grouping without an Internet Gateway as clock synchronisation 'eventually' figures out if there is no confirmed time keeper with nntp sync. We have seen this take minutes rather than moments in cases. It is not really designed this way...
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  Andy Bernhart

  • May 17, 2019 18:23
  • Edited

  Ok thanks, hope you all have a great long weekend. Is there any way to set them as a stereo pair outdoors then? I'm open to any solution, including purchasing some hardware to help.

  I do have two phones available if there is a way to use them for a stereo pair.

  I'm also ok with just using two in mono, could I run a 3.5mm cable from my phone with a splitter to both Pulse Flex?

  Thanks

   

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  Tony W.

  Product Support Manager

  • May 21, 2019 13:03

  Hi Andy

  Use one phone as a hot spot - use the second phone to set them up to the 1st phones' hot spot and then set up as a standard Stereo Pair should work....

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