PURE 'Flow' Internet Radio platform shut down by PURE
Saturday, May 13, 2023 at 12:44PMPURE Flow radios no longer work with Internet radio stations
The Lounge no longer works. PURE has quietly shut down the Flow Internet radio platform completely, throwing its band of loyal users onto the scrapheap.
As from May 9th, 2023 you can no longer access Internet radio channels through your PURE Flow radio.
"Only selective older radio models" [their words not mine] are affected, including:
- Avanti Flow
- Contour
- Evoke F4
- Evoke Flow
- Oasis Flow
- One Flow
- Sensia
- Sensia 200D
- Siesta Flow
- Sirocco 550
- Jongo speakers (when using Pure Connect app)
"This change in technology does not affect the majority of Pure customers, nor users of the Pure Select app, which is still available and fully functional", they say. Well, I've seen plenty of interest in keeping these older radios working by replacing the faded OLED displays. Even this week a grateful Avanti Flow owner celebrated replacing his display.
This is what happens today with network-based tech: it's great until they pull the plug and leave you with a load of perfectly-good hardware that is rendered fit only for landfill. What a sad day for us PURE Flow fans.
So now I have a PURE Connect (mono version) streaming Internet/ DAB radio which I found can be controlled using a smartphone with the UNDOK app.
Reader Comments (1)
This might not be quite as bad as it appears at first!
The Pure radios have a 'PC' mode allowing it to stream music from a PC on your network.
It uses a protocol called DLNA to do this.
There are a number of DLNA servers that allow you to specify streaming radio services, and can then serve them to DLNA devices. For linux, for example, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MiniDLNA can do this. I've streamed a number of stations from Soma.FM via MiniDLNA to a Pure radio on the local network.
David