Chord Electronics ☆ Poly ☆ (wireless & microSD module for Mojo) ☆★►USEFUL INFO on 1st PAGE!!◄★☆

[u brain]

Normally I use poly over upnp and it works fine nearly all the time.
Sometimes though, it would be convenient to connect from another device directly via Bluetooth. I've tried 3 different phones and 2 computers and all say, "can't communicate with this device".
Does Bluetooth actually work on Poly? Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is there some gotcha that I need to know about?

 

[paulrbarnard]

Normally I use poly over upnp and it works fine nearly all the time.
Sometimes though, it would be convenient to connect from another device directly via Bluetooth. I've tried 3 different phones and 2 computers and all say, "can't communicate with this device".
Does Bluetooth actually work on Poly? Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is there some gotcha that I need to know about?

I guess you are trying to stream over Bluetooth from a music app or similar. That doesn’t work with poly as far as I know. You can connect via Bluetooth and control poly to play music from the SDCard and you can use it as an airplay device or stream over WiFi or use it as a Roon endpoint.
I may be wrong but this is the extent of how I can use Poly

 

[WilOverton]

Normally I use poly over upnp and it works fine nearly all the time.
Sometimes though, it would be convenient to connect from another device directly via Bluetooth. I've tried 3 different phones and 2 computers and all say, "can't communicate with this device".
Does Bluetooth actually work on Poly? Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is there some gotcha that I need to know about?

As far as I'm aware Poly only uses bluetooth to control the settings through GoFigure. You can't use it to stream, although as you can play playlists through GoFigure I guess that isn't strictly true. But surely nobody uses GoFigure for that?

 

[rlw6534]

Normally I use poly over upnp and it works fine nearly all the time.
Sometimes though, it would be convenient to connect from another device directly via Bluetooth. I've tried 3 different phones and 2 computers and all say, "can't communicate with this device".
Does Bluetooth actually work on Poly? Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is there some gotcha that I need to know about?

If you set Poly to Airplane/Bluetooth mode from GoFigure you can connect for bluetooth audio. Note that it only supports SBC codec.

 

[Chester Rockwell]

The Poly was done by a 3rd party company called Disign Consultants

It looks to me like they have gone into administration. Check out thier companies house details.

That might be driving the server/upgrade issues people are experiencing.

 

[Pi3r]

Now I understand better why Poly is so subpar

 

[Guy Fawkes]

I guess you are trying to stream over Bluetooth from a music app or similar. That doesn’t work with poly as far as I know. You can connect via Bluetooth and control poly to play music from the SDCard and you can use it as an airplay device or stream over WiFi or use it as a Roon endpoint.
I may be wrong but this is the extent of how I can use Poly

You can stream to the Poly via bluetooth

 

[jjazzy]

You can stream to the Poly via bluetooth

To be honest de mojo2+poly is only okay for streaming over wifi or sd card.

Neither of any chord device supports bluetooth streaming LDAC or aptx HD or aptx lossless. It still not lossless but okay.

Maybe a poly2 or a mojo3 once?

What I have learned about chord products, don’t expect multi functionality like a ifi xds gryphon, or any other portable dac… if that is what you are looking for go somewhere else.

If it is extreme good sound quality, and willing to live with the cons, chord mojo2, hugo2 etc… are amazing portables, no competition

 

[syazwaned]

Has anyone able to stream link from MaximumMPD? What is it for?

 

[rlw6534]

Hi all

Had the Poly for a couple of months now. I've settled on using Mconnect to access Tidal and my Naim Uniti Core music server.

Am interested to know what the actual data flow in this scenario and hoped someone could confirm.

Am I correct in thinking that Mconnect requests a Tidal stream to be sent directly to the Poly and Mconnect remains in the loop for control but does not process the stream/file?

Many thanks
J

PS, did Rob W develop the Poly or just the Mojo?

Interesting question. I have always assumed that the source device receives the Tidal stream and then sends it to the Poly. What you describe sounds more like Tidal Connect (or Openhome) which Poly does not support... But I really don't know. Maybe others can chime in.

 

[Daniel Johnston]

Hi all

Had the Poly for a couple of months now. I've settled on using Mconnect to access Tidal and my Naim Uniti Core music server.

Am interested to know what the actual data flow in this scenario and hoped someone could confirm.

Am I correct in thinking that Mconnect requests a Tidal stream to be sent directly to the Poly and Mconnect remains in the loop for control but does not process the stream/file?

Many thanks
J

PS, did Rob W develop the Poly or just the Mojo?

Only way to know for sure is start the stream and close Mconnect.

It would make little to no sense for the data stream to go to from DLNA server through MConnect to the poly. I makes more sense for MConnect to direct your server to the poly directly. That's how Roon works and IIRC how MConnect should work.

 

[rlw6534]

Only way to know for sure is start the stream and close Mconnect.

It would make little to no sense for the data stream to go to from DLNA server through MConnect to the poly. I makes more sense for MConnect to direct your server to the poly directly. That's how Roon works and IIRC how MConnect should work.

I agree for files that are stored on the DLNA server (MConnect is controller only), but for Tidal it may be more complicated. I may play around later just out of curiosity.

 

[rlw6534]

I agree for files that are stored on the DLNA server (MConnect is controller only), but for Tidal it may be more complicated. I may play around later just out of curiosity.

Well, that experiment didn't help explain anything.

Using mConnect on my iPad, playback stops on the Poly as soon as you close the app, regardless of whether it's Tidal, Minimserver DLNA server or even Poly's SD card...

 

[Progisus]

It would make little to no sense for the data stream to go to from DLNA server through MConnect to the poly. I makes more sense for MConnect to direct your server to the poly directly. That's how Roon works and IIRC how MConnect should work.

I am pretty sure roon resends all streams especially since one of it’s big features is dsp which needs the core. I have always felt mconnect does the same as it needed to do the first unfold of the mqa stream.

 

[Daniel Johnston]

I am pretty sure roon resends all streams especially since one of it’s big features is dsp which needs the core. I have always felt mconnect does the same as it needed to do the first unfold of the mqa stream.

The Roon core sends the streams to the Roon endpoints. The Roon remote software on iOS/Mac/etc... doesn't have the data stream pass through that device prior to streaming to the Roon endpoint. So, you can close the Roon remote on let's say your iPad and open Roon remote on your computer without interruption. The stream is going straight from the Roon core to the endpoint. This is regardless of using Qobuz, Tidal, etc...

MConnect is different. I'm pretty sure that if you are using DLNA from a DLNA server to DLNA endpoint, the stream goes from server to endpoint without going through MConnect itself. If you are using Tidal or Qobuz, MConnect is sending the data stream to your endpoint.

That's why in the OP case it's easy to answer his question. If he closes MConnect and the sound stops, the data stream goes through MConnect.