Bowers & Wilkins Formation Bar [4/65] Using your formation bar

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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 rst 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 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 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 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. The

illuminations are displayed in Diagram 3.

Diagram 2

Space congurations

TV Space congurations

Music Space congurations

Bowers & Wilkins Formation Bar [4/65] Using your formation bar

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