HEOS

Giving 5 star but disappointing that I can’t add custom radio station url.

The most useless app in the world. Been that way for years, but no shame at all!

Surprised this app has decent ratings. Have been trying to use this app with my Denon AVR for 2+ years now hoping they’d push an update that actually works. Apart from the UX that looks like it’s made by an intern, the app never ever reliably connects to NAS. As in, sometimes it does, and sometimes just doesn’t seem to be in the mood. Other than that, the functionalities are rather pointless.

I have DENON home 350 airplay sounds excellent on iPhone Apple TV HEOS app also does well only con on DENON home 350 is latency on Bluetooth but airplay goes smooth👌it’s thumbs up 👍 for me.

Have 5 GHz router still if one song is shuffled it stops playing . One entire WiFi connection for this purpose only no other devices connected. Still poor.

It doesn’t work properly with maranta se 7013 . Do not turn on the receiver.. Don’t option for mode select..

This app has lost the WiFi connection to my soundbar multiple times requiring a full initial setup to get back going. When listening to music from my phone as a source it constantly bugs out where multiple restarts of the app are required just to play music. I was told when I bought the denon soundbar that denon was a sound company first and app company second. I didn’t realize how distant of a second place to at meant. Gotta do better if this is the only interface to the speakers.

My home audio / TV setup runs through a direct Ethernet wired Denon 550 Soundbar, which in turn connects to a wired Denon subwoofer, and two wireless Denon 150 speakers. Home Internet is both strong (with a router located within 0-15 feet of all devices) and very fast. When everything is working together, the sound is pretty great. The problem is that things work smoothly only about 85-90 percent of the time. HEOS is continually dropping the group connections between the soundbar and all other equipment. Sometimes all I have to do is tweak the sound settings (toggling between Stereo and Multi-channel Stereo) for it to remember to send sound to the speakers, etc. Sometimes I have to reboot everything for it to work properly. And sometimes I literally have to ungroup all connections and recreate / reconnect the group all over again. These malfunctions bear no relation to the occasional power or Internet outage, either. Needless to say, it’s a major inconvenience when this occurs — and is really an overall software failure to run properly only 90 percent of the time (or less). The HEOS app is frequently updated — and with extremely annoying reminders that insist you update — yet the “updates” do absolutely nothing to improve actual HEOS performance or (very rarely) add new features. Instead, they mostly seem to be advertisements for new Denon products. Unfortunately, I have sunk a minor fortune into all this Denon equipment, and so am stuck with its HEOS app, too. But had I known that these pesky issues would occur so often, I would have probably gone with a Sonos system for wireless sound, etc.

Need to add You Tube Music as a source.

Someone nearby has the same app and is able to turn my receiver on and play music using the app. One time music started blaring and I was afraid the speakers would blow. I’m sure whoever was doing it was wondering why their music wasn’t playing! Add a password so not just anyone can access your receiver!