Splitting HDMI for sound?

The nice thing about trying a PLAY:5 is that if it doesn't work for your TV use due to the delay (~70 ms and up, depending on settings), you can always use it as a normal streaming speaker elsewhere in your home. Not as easy to do with a CONNECT, which also has an analog in, but doesn't include a speaker. But I'd recommend saving up from the PLAYBAR or PLAYBASE. Hard to go wrong there, IMHO.

Hello everyone! Wanted to take on to this thread and pose a similar question. I have a Sonos connect setup on outdoor speakers. We will be streaming a live concert at our house this weekend for a party and would like to be able to pull the audio from the receiver to send to sonos to play outside while other people are watching inside on the tv through the speakers hooked up to the receiver.

Was thinking a hdmi splitter to connect between the receiver and the tv, once HDMI going to the TV and the other going to an HDMI audio extractor with a 3.5 mm output to go to the Sonos???

Thoughts on an easier solution?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Steve

Why use a splitter? The signal is already playing on the receiver, and your CONNECT is already hooked to the receiver? Why not just play the signal as normal?

Zone 2 for my Onkyo will only play analog content, not digital sources.

Wait. I was going to say that it made sense....

But I'm afraid I'm still confused. How is the TV set connected to the receiver? Is it an optical connection from the TV, or an HDMI connection? What is the CONNECT hooked up to on the receiver?

I guess what I don't understand is what the Zone 2 has to do with anything. While I understand it won't do digital source content, why isn't the CONNECT hooked up to the tape output on the back of the receiver?