HK Connect Hack 1.3 + Redeem Codes

After reading all of the reviews, most negative, I still gave the app a shot. Let me say for starters that I absolutely love my Onyx 4. It’s been amazing since the day that I purchased it. The app is unfortunately another story. I’m a “tech head” and can basically trouble shoot anything and get it to work. But the HK app definitely needs further development. After MULTIPLE strategies to get the app to work, I am still unsuccessful. I have reset the speaker, reset the Bluetooth, reset the phone, and numerous other techniques. The app still has not “found” my speaker and after multiple attempts nothing has worked even though I no issues playing music (which sounds amazing on my Onyx 4). I will always be an HK fan for the hardware, but the app is basically useless. Obviously, some people have gotten it to work and I applaud their accomplishments. But having “some” people find success and the rest get absolute failure is not a good ranking to say the least. I hope the developers address the issue and make this app work for all of their loyal HK owners.

Worked the first time connecting to TWO Onyx 4’s, yet when paired watching movies there was a latency problem. Voices in videos were half a second behind what was being displayed in videos. Second time after a few days the app won’t recognize the speakers even when BOTH are connected to Bluetooth.. Keeps telling me to turn my Bluetooth on and won’t go past that page. However, I still can link both Onyx 4 speakers without the app, which is nice. I noticed with one speaker connected to Apple TV 4 there was no latency. I have yet to further test both speakers. But speakers are great. I’m believing these issues will be addressed with updates. That’s why I’m leaving a review hoping Harmon Kardon will fix these issues.

Recently I purchased two HK Onyx Studio speakers to use in stereo mode. At first I tried just connecting them using the HK button on each speaker which works but apparently defaults to party mode. After installing this app I was able to easily switch to stereo mode. Sounds fantastic!!
Don’t know if this matters but in my case I only paired one of the speakers to my iPhone. I then connected the other speaker by using the HK Connect button on each of the speakers. I have not tried pairing both speakers to the iPhone as this doesn’t seem necessary.

The app does not find the speaker whether it is paired or not. I let the app search for a really longtime after TURNING OFF all my other devices. It kept on searching for almost twenty minutes.
Then, after the first pairing of the speaker to the iPad, the speakers (I have two) NEVER showed up on the Bluetooth scan again.
The speakers sound great when plugged into the device directly, but nope they truly don’t work as Bluetooth. And of course I have no way of knowing if they would work as a system since they don’t show up in the scan or the app!

What a disappointment. I DO NOT want a complicated home sound system in the house and this CONCEPT was a great solution. Alas, it’s just a concept.

As others have said, the speakers sound amazing, and when the app works and puts them into “stereo” mode, it’s a beautiful thing. The problem is that it won’t stay in stereo mode for long and reverts back to “party” mode for no reason. Once it automatically dumps them back into party mode, it takes an act of Congress to get it back into stereo mode with the app stating that it cannot connect to the speakers, only shows one speaker, tells me to turn off my other HK app (there is no other app running), etc. At that point, I have to turn off the app, both speakers and start the process over of syncing it all again. Super frustrating!!!!!! HK app developers - please fix this app...pretty please!!

Ok first of all I like to say I usually don’t write any reviews but I make an exception when either I’m happy with the app or annoyed by how it lacks to offer what is claim to do.

Ok here are the issues I have with this app:
It fails to detect my speakers even though both are on and pair with my phone
And when I tried to connect both together that doesn’t work either
Second thing I’m concerned is what kind of developers do you have working on your app?
It has only been updated twice and one of those updates was to the license agreement and the second time to the UI and it took six months between both Jesus lord are you serious?
However it fails to work at least on my experience I would love to rate it 5 even 10 stars if it would deliver what it was supposedly made for unfortunately I’m so disappointed and since I can rate it 1/2 star or less I’m rating it only one star

If you have Onyx 4, good news! Stereo mode works fine with the latest app update. It is important to pair to only one of your speakers, and let HK Connect handle communication to the second speaker. If you pair to both speakers, it will fail to start stereo mode or have other issues. Pro tip: nickname the speaker you pair to with either R or L so you know at a glance once you’re in stereo mode which speaker is set as R or L.

I just foundout I can connect 100 plus devices. I think Im selling my part time secondary Bose speaker and just getting all Hk. This is the best Speaker I have ever had the pleasure to experience. the bass (omg) and the clarity is unprecedented!!! Maverick! The fact theres an app that allows me to connect two of these .. or 100 is seriously giving me faith (longterm) for humanity. I am impregnated now by even this day. Cheers to all #christmasinjuly2022

Took about two minutes to connect to first speaker then press connect button the first then the on second speaker. There was about 15 second delay after pressing the connect button on the second speaker. They work great together. I had the speakers about 25 feet apart and the stereo effect worked well.

I expected the very worse and got it quickly. Connected. Launched Stereo. Sounds great! Left Channel! Right Channel! Yea!!! I’m thinking...”What are they talking about?!?!”...and then BOOM...bye-bye Stereo. Hello pop-up messages.

Since that initial 5 minutes:
1. I’ve changed the sight-lines between my iPhone and the main speaker. (It’s Bluetooth and shouldn’t matter...
2. I also have kept the HK app open on my phone while playing music. (Plugged into my charging stand)
3. I turned off my notifications (have no idea if it matters)

But...not one interruption. Not one. I realize that’s not sustainable, but I know what I’m working with....and I’m very very happy.

Played an album from start to finish...clean.
And now the big test...March Madness. Connected to my smart TV now...Awesome!

Good luck.