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Contributor I
February 19, 2015
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Our sonos playbar all of a sudden stopped playing the TV sound. Still can played over but not TV sound nor DVD nor Apple TV. Please help.

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Our sonos playbar all of a sudden stopped playing the TV sound. Still can played over but not TV sound nor DVD nor Apple TV. Please help.
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    Contributor I
    November 2, 2016
    Also there is no audio when I play a bluray disc.

    Cheers,
    Sandeep
    Contributor I
    November 2, 2016
    I also noticed that when I click on 'About my sonos',..the auio in for the playbar shows: Silence.

    Sandeep
    Manny S
    Sonos Employee
    November 3, 2016
    Sorry I did not make it clearer..My cable TV set top box goes to my blu ray player (HDMI in)...the HDMI out from my blu-ray is connected to the TV..the TV audio is off. Another optical cable connects the bluray player to playbar.

    No worries, Sandeep. Generally we expect to see your HDMI devices connected to your TV via separate HDMI ports, and the PLAYBAR connected to the TV via digital optical cable. This being said, the PLAYBAR should still be able to pass any audio signal it receives. If you are seeing "Silence" for the audio source, the PLAYBAR is not detecting a signal from whatever source it's plugged into. This may be due to a bad optical connection, or a problem with the source.


    I'd recommend plugging the optical cable into another source (TV, cable/satellite box, Xbox), to see if you can get audio from a source other than your Blu-ray player. This will also confirm that the PLAYBAR and optical cable are receiving signals correctly.
    Lyricist II
    December 4, 2016
    I am having same problem as original question and power reboot does not help. The optical plug is fine / brand new. I bought the playbar this morning and the TV worked through the bar for a few hours and then stopped. Wireless traffic should not impact the TV sound since hard wired in. Diagnostics 6283036
    Lyricist II
    December 4, 2016
    Correction: 6823064
    Lyricist II
    December 4, 2016
    Correction as I posted wrong diagnostics number: 6823064
    Jeff S
    Retired Sonos Staff
    December 8, 2016
    Correction as I posted wrong diagnostics number: 6823064

    Hi Kt327639,

    The PLAYBAR shows that it is receiving a stereo signal from the optical cable. It may help to check your TV's audio settings to make sure it's set to output audio through the optical output. What model of TV do you have?
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    Lyricist I
    December 25, 2016
    I am having this same issue. My sound bar plays music and bluray player but not my tv. Diagnostic 6916369
    Lyricist I
    December 25, 2016
    My play bar plays my tv and radio but when I try to play music library or Spotify no sound comes out. Diagnostic 6916584
    Thanks
    Lyricist I
    December 25, 2016
    Thought I should add Spotify still plays through all of our other speakers in different rooms just not in the room with playbar & 2 play3's.