Owner's Manual

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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, from network storage hardware 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 specic
area in your home in which you listen to music.
Each space can include different combinations of
Formation products. The possible congurations
are displayed in Diagram 1.
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 rst
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 (–) will adjust the
local volume of any network stream or local
source. Pressing and holding the (+) and (–)
buttons will continuously increase or
decrease volume.
• Touching the Form button
will cycle through
and play the active streams and sources available
to the Formation Bar.
Form Button illumination
The Formation Bar Form button illumination changes
to indicate a variety of operational states.
4. The Bowers & Wilkins Home App
With your Formation Bar congured and connected
to your network, the Bowers & Wilkins Home app
will open to its Home screen where the Formation
Bar space and any other available Formation spaces
will be listed.
Tap on a Formation space to select from any
available streams or inputs. If there are no streams
available, open a streaming app, Spotify for example,
and select an item to play, then select the Formation
Space from the list of available playback devices.
Now, when you return to the Bowers & Wilkins
Home app, the Spotify stream will be listed on the
Formation Bar space page.
The Bowers & Wilkins Home app Home page has
a Settings icon in the top right corner. Tap the
icon to open the app Settings menu. The Settings
menu provides options to congure and reset your
Formation devices and re-name your Formation
spaces. App and Formation device rmware updates
are also initiated from the Settings menu.
Finding Your Way Around the Bowers & Wilkins
Home App
The Bowers & Wilkins Home app will search for
available Formation spaces when opened then
display its Home page with the spaces listed.
Formation Bar
Formation Audio Formation Duo
Formation Wedge
Formation Wedge + Formation Audio
Formation Wedge + Formation Bass
Formation Wedge + Formation Audio + Formation Bass
Formation Bar + Formation Bass
Formation Duo + Formation Audio
Formation Duo + Formation Bass
Formation Duo + Formation Audio + Formation Bass
Diagram 1
Space congurations