Questions about Yamaha MusicCast 20

Hello Jediy Had the same problems with various yamaha musicast devices. After the firmware upgrade I could only pair a few speakers. Tried x things and finally I plugged all devices that were further away from the WiFi access point into a network cable. After that the pairing worked fine again. According to a forum post, yamaha has changed something in the transmission encryption and if a device is now too far away from the WiFi AP, the delay for synchronisation is too long. ...for me, the sync only works perfectly again if the distance is less than 5m...tragic, but that's the way it is. I had temporarily switched to sonos out of annoyance with yamaha...but the app is even worse there than with yamaha...in my opinion. If both could programme a decent app, both systems would be top.

Hello Olilo, unfortunately I can't help you with the availability of the Musicast 20. I can only tell you that I am completely satisfied with Yamaha and the MusicCast Multiroom System and can only recommend it. I have the Yamaha R-N803D and the MusicCast 20. The MusicCast app has also recently been redesigned and is now even more user-friendly. I find the Musicast system clearly superior to Sonos.

I don’t have exactly your amp, but do have the Yamaha AV rx-s601d amp with music cast and can confirm that the three behaviours you want (803 by itself, 803 sync to 20 for multi room synchronous audio, and 803 playing one stream and the 20 playing another stream) is exactly what I do on a daily basis with mine. You have to use the MusicCast app to be able to « join » the two speakers together, and to break them apart. Sometimes this can be buggy when the av amp requires a firmware update (I now have a firmware update notification mechanism due to this bug 😂) but I would say it works well enough that even my wife and kids can use it without issue. All in all, it does what I wanted and I’m happy with it.

The sound is generated by the laptop. So you can select that the sound output is played via the MusicSast. Whether it's Netflix or something similar doesn't matter. I occasionally watch Swisscom TV on the iPad with sound output on the MusicCast.

I think this has already been adjusted, I don't see this price anymore.

This was added with a software update and works. I don't know in which condition they are delivered. I can control mine (update carried out after unpacking) via iPhone without any problems. See also information at Yamaha: https://de.yamaha.com/de/products/contents/audio_visual/musiccast/update_models.html

Hi I listen to Radio Swiss Pop non-stop without any problems. Greetings

So far I have not been able to find a way to turn off all the LEDs unless I unplug them, one always remains. Yours sincerely Andres

It seems not yet, according to this article here, the Firmware update will come for all 2018 models: https://www.appgefahren.de/yamaha-ruestet-musiccast-naechstes-jahr-mit-airplay-2-aus-230477.html unfortuantely its in german.