ART+SOUND Smart Zone 4 Manuel utilisateur

Smart Zone 4

USER MANUAL

Thank your for buying our Smart Zone 4 multi-room system. We hope you’ll enjoy it for years to come. Please

read these instructions carefully and keep this manual for later reference. .

1. WARNINGS AND SAFETY

• To prevent ﬁre or electric shocks, the device must not be exposed to rain or humidity.

• For your own safety: to prevent electric shocks do not remove the housing.

• Do not try to repair any malfunctioning parts of the device yourself. Ask a professional expert to do this for you.

• When plugged into the mains, the device remains electrically charged even when switched o.

2. WHAT’S IN THE BOX

Check that the packaging contains the following parts:

• Smart Zone 4

• User Manual

• Ethernet Cable

• Rack Mount Brackets x2

• 12V/2A Power Adapter

Table of contents

1. Warnings and safety

2. What’s in the box

3. Introduction

4. System Requirements

5. Interface and Functions

5.1 Front Panel

5.2 Back Panel

5.3.Side Panel

6. Placing the Smart Zone 4

7. Zone Connection

7.1 Connect to external ampliﬁer

or AV receiver

7.2 Connect to external subwoofer

7.3 Trigger Control

7.4 Connect to USB storage device

7.5 Connect to audio playback device

7.6 RS232 Serial Port

7.7 Connect to network

8. Download 4Stream APP

9. Using Smart Zone 4

9.1 Selecting a zone

9.2 Play same music to multiple rooms

9.3 Listen to online music

9.4 Spotify

9.5 Airplay

9.6 Listen to local music

9.7 Music Playlist

9.8 Play music from line in

9.9 Play music from Optical/Coaxial in

9.10Play music from PC

9.11 Changing Output channels

10. Device Settings

11. Firmware Update

12. Speciﬁcations

13. Warranty conditions

SMART ZONE 4

1. Power Button

2. Streaming Indicator – LED on when streaming

3. Input Source Indicator – LED Color: White for Network Audio, Green for Line in 1 (Zone Line in), Yellow for Line

in 2 (Master Line in), Magenta for Master Optical in, Cyan for Master Coaxial in, Red for USB

4. Network Indicators – LED on when network is available

3. INTRODUCTION

The Smart Zone 4 is a multi-room system that enables you to enjoy your favorite music anywhere in your home.

Smart Zone 4 contains 4 audio streamers for you to use as audio source, you can easily play music from various

online music services, your phone or tablet, NAS and other sources by using the 4Stream app on your iOS or

Android device.

• Multi-room audio function: play dierent music in dierent rooms or the same music in every room.

• Easy network setup: Connect to your home network and it is ready to use.

• Rich I/O interface: Each zone has both digital and analog inputs and outputs. There is also a master source

input that all zones can use.

• Compatible with Artsound Smart Hyde. You can combine the Smart Zone 4 with one or more Smart Hyde ampli-

ﬁers and control everything from the same app.

4. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION:

The Smart Zone 4 needs a wired ethernet internet connection to stream music from online music services and to

get online ﬁrmware updates. You may experience performance issues with slower internet connections.

WIRELESS ROUTER:

In order to use the Smart Zone 4, you will need to have a working Wi-Fi network in your home, since the control

app on your mobile device needs to be in the same network as the streamer.

CONTROL APP – 4STREAM:

You can control the Smart Zone 4 using our free 4Stream app on any recent iOS and Android device.

5. INTERFACE AND FUNCTIONS

5.1 FRONT PANEL

SMART ZONE 4

1. Zone ID Switch for RS232 port program use.

1. Pre-Out

2. Line In (Line 1 in app)

3. Digital Coaxial Out

4. Digital Optical Out

5. 12v Trigger out

6. USB port

7. Master Line In (Line in 2 in app)

8. Master Digital Coaxial In

9. Master Digital Optical In

10. Master 12V Trigger out

11. Reset button

12. ass Through (RS232 port)

13. RS232 Port

14. Network input

15. Network output

16. 1DC input

5.2 BACK PANEL

5.3 SIDE PANEL

6. PLACING THE SMART ZONE 4

The Smart Zone 4 is an audio streamer and needs to be used with an external device that oers audio ampliﬁca-

tion. For example: Artsound AMP1250 or 2 x Artsound PRL1204 can be used. You should place the Smart Zone 4

near the ampliﬁcation device you want to connect to.

Smart Zone 4 is designed to ﬁt in a 1U equipment rack for easy installation. Attach the included rack mounting

brackets on each side of the unit if you want to mount it in a standard 19 inch equipment rack.

• Remove the two screws on each side of the unit

• Align the rack mounting brackets with the screw holes and screw back the screws, make sure they are tightly

secured.

AUDIO

R L

COAXIAL

OPTICAL

———— AUDIO ———— ———— AUDIO ———— IN

SMART ZONE 4

7. ZONE CONNECTION

You can play the same audio source

in all four zones at the same time,

you can also play dierent audio

sources in dierent zones.

7.1 CONNECT TO EXTERNAL AMPLIFIER

OR AV RECEIVER

Connect the LINE OUT output to the input on your

ampliﬁer or AV receiver using the appropriate cable.

The Smart Zone 4 supports both analog output (RCA)

and digital output (Optical & Coaxial).

7.2 CONNECT TO EXTERNAL SUBWOOFER

Connect the LINE OUT “L” output to the input on your

active subwoofer or subwoofer ampliﬁer.

Your ampliﬁer or

AV receiver

Subwoofer with

built-in ampliﬁer

ZONE 1

ZONE 2

ZONE 3

ZONE 4

Analog device

R L

———— A

T ———

—

Digital device

———— A

T ———

—

COAXIAL OUT OPTICAL OUT

SMART ZONE 4

7.3 TRIGGER CONTROL

If the audio ampliﬁer connected to the Smart Zone

4 has a trigger input connector, you can connect it

to the TRIGGER OUT of Smart Zone 4 using a 3.5mm

cable (not included). A12V/150mA signal is output

from the TRIGGER OUT port.

Use a mono mini-plug cable for connecting the TRIG-

GER OUT port. Do not use a stereo mini-plug cable.

7.4 CONNECT TO USB STORAGE DEVICE

To play music stored on a USB storage device, just plugin a USB storage device containing music ﬁles to the USB

port of the Zone you want to play it with.

7.5 CONNECT TO AUDIO PLAYBACK DEVICE

Connect the LINE IN in each zone or LINE IN, COAXIAL IN, OPTICAL IN in the master input area to an audio

playback device, it can be a TV, CD player, mixer, portable music player or any device with audio output using the

same connector.

In the app, LINE IN in each zone is represent as Line in 1, LINE IN in the master input area is represented as Line

in 2.

7.6 RS232 SERIAL PORT

RS232 serial port is reserved for connection to smart home control unit to control the Smart Zone 4. You can use

the Pass-Through port to connect to another Smart Zone 4 for group control.

The Switches on the side are used to assign a device ID for each zone to let the control unit distinguish each

zone.

TRIGGER IN

USB memory

device

4STREAM

SMART ZONE 4

7.7 CONNECT TO NETWORK

Connect the Smart Zone 4 to your home router using a LAN cable to add it into your home network. You can use

the NETWORK OUT port to connect another device to the same network.

8. DOWNLOAD 4STREAM APP

The 4Stream app is the controller of the whole system.

Install 4Stream app in your mobile device and you can

control and stream music anywhere in your home.

The application supports English, Spanish, French, German,

Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Simpliﬁed Chinese, Traditional

Chinese and Japanese.

You can download 4Stream app for iOS or Android by

searching “4Stream” in App Store or Google Play Store.

9. USING THE SMART ZONE 4

Once you have connected your Smart Zone 4 to

your network and have installed the 4Stream app on

your mobile device, you can start playing music to

dierent rooms. You can listen to dierent music in

dierent room or the same music in all rooms in sync.

9.1 SELECTING A ZONE

In 4Stream app you will see all the connected devices

in the same network.

1. Select the device you want to control, the select-

ed device will have a green bar that appears on

the left side.

2. Swipe to the left to open the list of music

sources.

3. Select an online or local music source from the

list to start streaming your music.

ROUTER

SMART HOME

CONTROL UNIT

SMART ZONE 4

9.2 PLAY SAME MUSIC TO MULTIPLE ROOMS

You can play the same music to multiple rooms simul-

taneously by pulling a device over another device to

from a group. The device list on top of the group is

the master device, the music streaming to the master

device will also play back on the other devices in the

same group.

If your music source is from the master source input,

there is no need to group the devices, since all the

devices can access the master source input.

*There will be a small delay between the audio

source and the 4 zones when in multizone mode, all

4 zones will be in sync with no delay between them.

*There is no delay when you use the master source

input as input source for the 4 zones. No need to

group them together, ungroup them to play in sync

with the input source.

9.3 LISTEN TO ONLINE MUSIC

Smart Zone 4 can work with various online streaming

music services like Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer,

Amazon Music, QQ Music, TuneIn, vTuner Internet

radio, iHeartradio. You can easily stream music or

playlist from your account wirelessly and play on your

home audio system.

9.4 SPOTIFY

To use Spotify, you need to have a Spotify premi-

um account. You will ﬁnd the dierent zones from

the Smart Zone 4 in the device list in the Spotify

application.

9.5 AIRPLAY

The device supports Airplay1, you can choose Airplay

in iOS device and play music.

SMART ZONE 4

9.6 LISTEN TO LOCAL MUSIC

Smart Zone 4 can stream local music stored in your

mobile phone or tablet, USB storage drive, NAS using

DLNA protocol or UPnP/DLNA 3rd party software.

Click on “My Music” to select the local device you

want to play from.

*Our system only supports NAS systems using DLNA

protocol.

9.7 MUSIC PLAYLIST

You can create music a playlist and add local music to

the list for streaming.

9.8 PLAY MUSIC FROM LINE IN

• Connect an external audio source to line-in port

using RCA cable.

• Choose line in mode in the 4Stream application to

switch to line in mode.

• Line in 1 is the line in port of the current zone, Line

in 2 is the line in port

• Of the master input source.

9.9 PLAY MUSIC FROM OPTICAL/COAXIAL IN

• Connect an external audio source to Optical/

Coaxial in of the master input source.

• Choose Optical or Coaxial in the 4Stream

application to switch to the corresponding mode.

9.10 PLAY MUSIC FROM PC

You can stream audio stored in your Mac and

Windows PC by using iTunes, 3rd party UPnP/DLNA

streaming program like Foobar2000, Music Bee or

Serviio.

9.11 CHANGING OUTPUT CHANNELS

You can change the output channel of the zone, you

can change between Left channel only, Right channel

only or Stereo. You can set Zone 1 to play Left

channel and Zone 2 to play right channel, group them

together to make stereo. By default it is set to Stereo.

SMART ZONE 4

10. DEVICE SETTINGS

RENAME

You can rename each zone to dierent name to ﬁt

your needs.

SPEAKER INFO

You will see the device information like device’s IP

address, Device name, Firmware Version and Restore

Factory Default.

PRESET

You can store 10 dierent playlist or radio stations to

the Preset list for quick access.

Any list or station with the speaker icon can be

preset. Click on the speaker icon and you can assign

it to the preset list.

RESTORE FACTORY SETTINGS

Long press the Reset button for 8 sec to restore the

device to factory default settings.

This will reset all the zone names, volume and current

input source.

ALARM CLOCK

Setup music alarm clock, music can come from Preset

list, vTuner Internet Radio, iHeartRadio, Napster,

Tidal, Spotify, Deezer and NAS

SLEEP TIMER

Setup a Countdown timer to stop the music playback.

You can control treble and bass of the device.

11. FIRMWARE UPDATE

Whenever a new ﬁrmware is available, you will be notiﬁed by a “new” icon. Click on the “new” icon to begin

ﬁrmware update, it will take couple minutes.

It is recommended to update ﬁrmware when it is available, it might not only correct bugs or improve perfor-

mance, but also might add new features or services.

SMART ZONE 4

12. SPECIFICATION

Audio Input Line in Max 2V RMS input

USB USB Playback

Audio Output Line out Max 2V RMS output

SPDIF Optical 44.1KHz/16Bit output, multiroom function

SPDIF Coaxial

Master Input Source

Audio Input Line in Max 2V RMS input

SPDIF Optical Max 192KHz/24Bit Sample Rate Decode

PCM encoding

SPDIF Coaxial

Network

Ethernet In RJ45

Ethernet Out RJ45 Output to other device to share the network

General

Power 12V DC in (12V/2A)

Master Trigger Output, Trigger Output on each zone

Control Interface Dual-way RS232

Dimensions 43x20x4.5 (5.3 with footer) cm

13. WARRANTY CONDITIONS

2 year warranty from date of purchase. The warranty is limited to the repair of replacement of the defective

material insofar as this defect is a result of normal use and the device has not been damaged. Artsound is not

responsible for any other costs that ensue as a result of the defect (e.g. transport). For details, please consult our

general terms and conditions of sale.

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