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Yes, no need to have an ethernet connection to Dialog. But as I described Spark does not work! It goes to setup mode. The other app that Devialet offers on IOS called Phantom, however functions. With this app you can control the newer version of Phantom that has built-in bluetooth. In my setup I have two old Phantoms from the first batch and one new one with BT. I can run all three Phantoms with Dialog set-up in two rooms. When I set all three in one 'room' then I can start them all without Dialog conected to my network and feed through an optical input stereo + mix to the Phantoms. Please try it and confirm if it also works for you. Control of play, pause etc. is done on the device that is fed in through the optical input.
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Dialog and Phantoms are using their own independent network always. This is done by either using Wifi or Ethernet cabling. Dialog also is a router that connects it's own music network to your home network. For a communication between Dialog and the Phantoms no access to an external network is necessary.
Whenever you want to use Spark to control volume or feed the Phantoms with music Dialog needs a connection to the network that also contains the device that is running Spark. If Dialog does not have a connection to this network you have two options:
1. You feed the Phantoms using bluetooth. The advantage is that you can control the volume of the Phantoms using the bluetooth device or app. The disadvantage is that sound quality of bluetooth is really worse compared to either wifi streaming or optical input. I personally am not able to listen to bluetooth sound for more than some minutes. If you are satisfied with it you better buy a much cheaper Sonos device.
2. You use optical input. This way you have highest possible sound quality but without Dialog connected to your home network won't be able to control volume because Spark app can't connect to Dialog. This is where Remote comes into play. Once you connected it to one of the Phantoms you can use it to control the volume regardless which kind of input you use. It even allows fine tuning of volume because it is much more sensible than volume control of Spark app. In fact optical input and remote make up a very nice combination.