EQUINOX INTEGRATION GUIDE
©Vantage Equinox
NuVo Player
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X. Bill of Materials Example
#
Device
Manufacturer
Part Number
Protocol
Connector Type
Notes
1
EQ40
Vantage
EQ40TB-TI
Station Bus (16/2)
2
EQ41
Vantage
EQ41TB-TI
Ethernet w/PoE
Cat 5 (RJ45)
3
EQ73
Vantage
EQ73TB-TI
Ethernet w/PoE
Cat 5 (RJ45)
4
EQ Mobile Apps
Vantage
EQ-APP-5/10/X
Wi-Fi
N/A
5
P3500
Vantage / NuVo
VA-NV-P3500-NA
Ethernet
Cat 5 in / RCA out
6
Infusion Controller
Vantage
IC-36-1
Ethernet
Station bus / Cat 5
7
850 Multi-room Amp
Vantage
850D-DA
Ethernet
RCA in / 16/4 out
8
Wireless Router
Luxul
XWR-1750
Ethernet / Wi-Fi
Cat 5 (RJ45)
9
Gigabit Switch w/PoE
Luxul
XGS-1008P
Ethernet w/PoE
Cat 5 (RJ45)
10
Zone Speakers
Various
Various
N/A
16/4 Speaker Wire
XI. Tech Notes
Things to Know / Gotchas:
After a NuVo Firmware Update, the NuVo will no longer communicate with the Vantage System. A reset of the
Vantage System Infusion Controller must be performed to restore communication.
NuVo players do not support static IP addresses so configure the network router to reserve the DHCP addresses
each player grabs (Vantage could lose connection to the NuVo if not).
After a full download of a Design Center project file, wait at least 1 minute per zone for the NuVo player system to
fully finish sending metadata to the Infusion controller before testing.
SiriusXM presets, Pandora channels, TuneIn favorites, etc. cannot be created in the Equinox UI yet. This is not yet
supported by the NuVo API for third-party systems so these favorites, etc. must be added from within the NuVo App.
NuVo Players only update their Library every 24 hours. If new music is added, a refresh must be done for the new
music to immediately appear.
NuVo Player metadata is not supported on older TPTs such as 650s, 700s, 1040s, etc. Only the NuVo MPS4-E and NVT2
tuners are supported on the older TPTs.
Nuvo Player with Vantage 850D-DA
The best recommend use of a NuVo Player and Equinox is used in conjunction with an 850D-DA multi-room
amplifier where the NuVo Player(s) are the source(s).
When using the NuVo player as a source for an 850D-DA multi-room amplifier, the following rules must be
followed:
The NuVo zone should be marked as Excluded from Audio Widget in Design Center.
All NuVo zones should appear with no group in the NuVo App when the Vantage System is initialized.
After initialization, the NuVo App must not be used… only the Equinox App.
Standalone Nuvo System
If using the NuVo Player(s) as a standalone system, you must choose to either use a one-to-one relationship on the
Equinox devices (i.e. Gym zone only sees Gym music stream) or use and allow each zone to see all streams on the
Equinox devices (no streams should be filtered out). This is due to the arbitrary nature of the way the NuVo system
and API creates groups and uses streams.
Equinox App and EQ73 only controls the volume for the current zone selected, not a whole group. For a multi-
zone volume control, in full screen audio widget go to "sync" view on zone ribbon.
A source swipe on Equinox 73 / app could stop the previous stream if no other zones are using that stream.
Power commands map to the Mute command in the NuVo API.
There is no “ungroup” option yet in Equinox like there is in the NuVo App.
