Bose

Summary

The Bose adapter allows you to control your Bose speakers from the Futurehome app.

1. Go to settings → playground → Bose Soundtouch → download .
2. Press the three dots → choose the speakers you want to connect.

Your devices will show in the device list.

Functionality

• Play or pause music/radio
• Skip to the next or previous song
• Mute speakers
• Turn on/off shuffle, repeat and repeat one
• Control volume
• Get metadata (song name, artist, album)

Setup

1. Download:
   Go to settings  → playground → Bose Soundtouch → download .
    
   
   
2. Choose the speakers:
   Tap the three dots → select the speakers you want to connect.
   
   
   
3. Add to Room:
   Go to the settings page → devices → scroll to the bottom to find the device.
   Open the device → press settings → place in a room → save.
4. Delete unwanted devices (if any):
   Go to the device → settings → delete.
5. Reinclude the device after deletion:
   Go to playground → Bose Soundtouch → three dots → advanced setup → sync.

Optional

1. Create automations.
   See Bose advanced automations.
2. Change sync time (for how long the network is searched for the speakers):
   Go to settings → playground → Bose Soundtouch → three dots → set number of seconds in the box at the bottom (default 10 seconds) → scroll down to save.

Faultfinding

• To learn how to create automations, see here.

  Note that you cannot make automations for Bose speakers from the Futurehome app but you can make automations through Thingsplex flows.
• If you are missing speakers in the list, click on «sync» to search the network again (go to playground → Bose Soundtouch → three dots → sync).

  Initially, the adapter scans for 10 seconds. If you have many devices or a busy network, you can configure the adapter to search for a longer time:

  1. Go to playground → Bose Soundtouch → three dots .
  2. Change the value in the bottom box → save.
  3. Tap sync to scan the network again. The app will say «loading» until the scan is complete.