r/heos

Hey everyone! I made a small macOS app for HEOS and would love some feedback.

I recently bought a Marantz PM7000N with Dali Oberon 5 speakers, and I couldn’t be happier with this first setup. I spend a lot of time working on my Mac and listening to music in the background.

I was surprised there wasn’t a lightweight Mac app to control my setup, so I kept using my phone for playback. Then one day, my kid decided it would be a good idea to play around with the volume knob on the amp, and it scared the shit out of me.

I tried to find a simple and convenient way to control the amp from my Mac, but couldn’t find anything that fit what I wanted. So I decided to build my own.

I’m trying to keep it dead simple, distraction-free, cozy, and convenient.

So, meet HEOS Surfer.

It lives in the menu bar and lets you control playback, use some advanced volume controls, and listen to internet radio.

Things it can do:

• Play / pause / skip, with media key support
• Change volume by scrolling on the menu bar icon
• Show now playing with album art
• Set a max volume cap - say thanks to my kiddo for this one =D
• Auto-lower music when your mic turns on for a call, then restore it after
• Search internet radio stations
• Play custom stream URLs
• Set a sleep timer
• Launch at login

It’s a native Swift app and stays local.

It’s free to use. You can optionally support development by getting a key, which unlocks a supporter badge.

https://heossurfer.com
https://heossurfer.com/feedback

It’s a one-person project, so I’d really appreciate anyone trying it out. Feedback, bug reports, feature ideas, or “this works / doesn’t work with my setup” would all be super helpful.

https://reddit.com/link/1up6fp2/video/0wcyuzvpmnbh1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1up6fp2/video/jmxbczvpmnbh1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1up6fp2/video/q74qczvpmnbh1/player

Demo:

so trying deezer for first time and can't figure out how to just play a whole playlist 🤔

... seem to have to do it through heos app... and only wants to play single track 🤔🤔

just wondering if anyone using that service.... and if it had decent track volume normalisation?

Cheers

想要組一組home 550+home sub+home 200*2的劇院組合 試聽過單純550+sub的音效 音質不錯低音確實有彈性 但是不知道搭配200當後環繞的效果如何？正在考慮要不要入手

recently purchased a home with three Denon receivers each with two zones. Regularly one of my receivers, the outdoor and living room coverage one continues to go out on one of the two areas this happens the same with my bathroom and main bedroom zones which are on a separate receiver.

I fix the bathroom in main bedroom zone by adding a Wi-Fi extender and it has seemed to work.

The same solution, however, didn’t work for my outdoor living room room. The outdoor zone worked as reason is this week but now won’t play although it shows active.

Can anyone give me any trouble shooting advice?

i have spend alot of money on these 2 heos 7 hs2 and they became very user unfriendly. its oke that you brought out a new model that has better specs and everything. but its ridiculous that both speakers use the same app. i just googled and it said that the first heos versions has slower hardware compared to the new version. and thats fine. but then you dont have to create an app thats meant for the new speaker with the right hardware for it. but just kept the old app and for the new one create a different app. now you updated the app with so many BS features in it that my old system cant handle it because outdated specs. i bought these speakers for the good sound. but right now i am not able to enjoy most of it. wifi streaming got useless. bluetooth often has problems. usb audio is useless. even with a fast stick. now i have 2x aux connected. its crazy that companys just can ruin a expensive product and ignore the customers. you can ask for logs and problem lists. but you alrealy know the reason. that is that the product became user unfriendly in hope ppl buy the new version. i cant. if i was rich then i had bought a set with bowers & wilkins. now i thought heos was a good option for its sound quality. but the app is very bad.

it would be fair if you bring back the old heos app to what it was around the year 2019. when i bought the speakers i had some problems. but after some updates it got better. so i think 2019 is the right year. at that time the speakers just worked as it should be. the app that these speakers can handle i dont need all these BS in the app. just streaming the music i have. not from an subscription streaming service.

now since the new 350 model came out my speakers got worse with every update. its very evil that updates say that they bring fixes. but in reality they just patch your speaker setup to death.

i just wanted to say this. i dont expect any change because big company’s power abuse these days can just ignore 1 customer.

I know this is a similar problem to this topic but I can't figure this out. I'm new to HEOS and linking wireless speakers so bear with me. I'm technically inclined but currently stumped.

I have a Denon AVR X1700H and a Sony XBR-75X900H TV. The TV is connected to the AVR with HDMI, and the sound works perfectly through my wired-only speakers on the TV Audio source.

All I'm trying to do is add a Home 150 so I can put it on my deck and hear what's happening on the TV for sports games. I don't care if there's a delay or anything, I just want the audio from the AVR repeated on the Home 150 like it's any other additional speaker. Sometimes we want music this way, other times sports games, all the same. Just another speaker. Is this even possible?

Recently needed to get my Denon AVR-X2600H repaired after a series overheating shutdowns of the unit. The message was something about thermal protection mode. Now that it's home, I wanted to make sure there were not any compatibility issues here to not throw away more money on repairs. Is there a specific setting I need to use? Or different L/R speakers since it is Prime Days?

 

TV	Samsung 77” OLED S90 series
AVR	Denon AVR-X2600H
Left/Right	Boston HD10 (as previously posted)
Center	Polk Monitor XT30 Compact Center
Surrounds	GoldenEar SuperSat 3
Ceiling	Dayton Audio ME620C
Sub	Polk Audio Monitor XT12 12" Sub