Practice with the Onkyo Android app

So I rearranged my living room last weekend and decided to withdraw from my old receiver for 9 years (gasp). Wasn ' t research to spend a fortune, but sound surround is a must, Internet access is a plus. Finished with the Wirecutter ' s recommendation of the Onkyo TX-NR509. He ' s received a rear Ethernet port (If ' s how restore you), or an optional Wifi dongle that plugs into USB port before and as a bonus, a companion application Android.

Let ' s really start to say that the audio House is something very personal and quirky, and your configuration will determine the usefulness of features. I ' have a Xbox 360 and a review of Logitech to manage most of my multimedia works, it ' s a good few that ' s in PAP Onkyo - specifically the reading of music - that I ' ll never use. You ' well enough to have distance full capacity, including the switching of the entries and sources. The app ' s provision ' s fairly intuitive, as are the settings. I ' m not walk you through them that, even once, your installation vary mine and it is likely that you ' re a good nerd can do it yourself.

(I ' ll mentioned that the Onkyo has things like radio Internet and DLNA streaming, which is nice, but the on-screen interfaces user is so horrible that you ' ll probably won't touch.)

No, the only bright side of the Onkyo Android app - for me, anyway, is the possibility of changing the volume of another piece. I ' ve got children. Two of ' em. The eldest is 5, and she can rock the Logitech Harmony One remote to get his Dora. But it has ' s is also deaf, I ' m satisfied, because the TV will be stronger and stronger as she looks. With the Onkyo app, it ' s not get up until I ' m to make. No more arguing. I'm just the damn thing down and no ' the wisest s. (I can do the same thing with the Google TV Remote app, by the way in which.)

So that ' s what I ' m switches now in the living room, and like. (And it's good, too). Onkyo said the app ' s compatible with all network AV receivers out from 2010, and the stereo receiver TX-8050 and the Stereo Tuner T-4070 network network. It may need to do a firmware update (mine took about 5 minutes) to keep things in place.

We ' ve got captures screenshots and links to download after the break.

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