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Smart Connect - where is the user guide?

Soony
Visitor

Smart Connect - where is the user guide?

The Sony Smart Connect app is not intuitive, at least not for me and I don't have spare hours to learn it through trial and error.  Is there a detailed user's guide anywhere?  What are the exact definitions of "Condition" and "Action"?  I have my xperia tablet z linked to a Sony speaker SRS-BTX500 and am totally baffled by the Smart Connect screen that shows "Speaker" on the left, then "SRS-BTX500" on the right along with an admonition to "Add condition".  I just want the speaker to turn on when I play Music Unlimited and to turn off when I stop Music Unlimited.  Or do I have this backwards?  

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Rickard
Master

What Smart Connect does is to automatically perform certain actions (start an app, change settings) that you select under certain conditions (when you connect a certain accessory, at a certain time) that you select.

If you for example set the conditions "Charger" and "Time 22.00-07.00" and the action "Sound mode: silent" this means that if a charger is connected and time is between 22.00 and 07.00 the tablet will be in silent mode.

The tablet can unfortunately not turn on/off the power in your speaker for you. If the speaker is on and paired with your tablet it will automatically be used when you play music regardless of Smart Connect. What you could do using Smart Connect is to set the speaker as a condition and Music Unlimited as an Action. What will happen then is that when you power on the speaker and it gets connected Smart Connect will start the app Music Unlimited for you.

Soony
Visitor

In other words, there is no users' guide and we can tinker around with a few limited examples awkwardly expressed.  I notice other queries on this board related to confusion over Smart Connect.