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Bluetooth Setup
You can connect your Formation Bar to a Bluetooth
enabled audio source device, such as a smartphone,
to play audio over Bluetooth. Your Formation Bar
must first be "paired" with the Bluetooth audio
source device.
Once you have completed the Formation Bar
network setup, open the Bowers & Wilkins Home
app Settings page, and select the Formation Space
that you wish to pair a Bluetooth device with. Next
select '+ Pair a new device' from the Bluetooth
menu and follow the app instructions to complete
pairing. Your Formation Bar will play an audio prompt
when pairing is complete and its Space will become
available to the paired Bluetooth device for audio
playback.
Note: Up to eight Bluetooth devices can be
simultaneously paired with each Formation
space, however devices will not connect and play
to paired spaces automatically.
3. Using Your Formation Bar
The Basics
You can use your Formation Bar to play audio from
your TV, from streaming services such as Spotify,
Apple Music, and Tidal, from the Roon music library
service and from internet radio via an appropriate
iRadio app. If you have further Formation devices
connected to your network, a Formation Audio for
example, conventional audio sources connected to it
will also be available through your Formation Bar.
Spaces
Spaces are a core concept of the Formation product
family. A Formation "space" is a room or a specific
area in your home in which you listen to music.
Each space can include different combinations of
Formation products. The possible configurations
are displayed in Diagram 2.
Playing Audio
The Bowers & Wilkins Home app enables you to
select and play any available audio source or stream.
However, in much the same way that conventional
audio source playback requires initiation through
a play command, Formation streams must be first
initiated through their own gateway app: the Spotify
app for example, or a music library app such as
Roon. Each gateway or library app will list your
Formation Bar space as an available playback device
using Airplay, Bluetooth or in the case of Spotify,
Spotify Connect.
Once audio streams are playing on the Formation
network they can be selected via the Bowers &
Wilkins Home app or via the Formation Bar top panel
Form touch button . Touching the Form button will
cycle though the available streams and sources.
Formation Bar Top Panel Controls
and Illumination
Your Formation Bar has touch buttons on its top
panel that provide play/pause control, volume
adjustment and source/stream selection.
• Touching the Play/Pause will alternately stop
and restart audio playback.
Note: Play/pause will only operate if the stream
source has play and pause functions that can
be accessed through Bluetooth or network
connections.
• Touching volume up or down
the local volume of any network stream or local
source. Pressing and holding the
buttons will continuously increase or decrease
volume.
TV Space configurations
Music Space configurations
Diagram 2
Space configurations
will adjust • Touching the Form button
and play the active streams and sources available
and to the Formation Bar.
Form Button illumination
The Formation Bar Form button illumination changes
to indicate a variety of operational states. The
illuminations are displayed in Diagram 3.
will cycle through
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