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Contributor I
October 2, 2024
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stupid tv source

  • October 2, 2024
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how can i remove the stupid tv source from dashboard?!

who the f uses a tv as source with this crappy 5.1 surround system?!

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Best answer by Schlumpf

@usethis 

You can‘t remove it at all… whether as a single source nor the whole „your inputs“ category. 
As someone described before, the tv source disappear automatically after some time if not being active. 
All that is made by design and imo most people are fine with that. 

19 replies

controlav
Lead Maestro
October 3, 2024

how can i remove the stupid tv source from dashboard?!

who the f uses a tv as source with this crappy 5.1 surround system?!

Er, everyone with a Beam, Ray or Arc I would imagine. That is kind of the point of the devices.

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usethisAuthor
Contributor I
October 3, 2024

how can i remove the stupid tv source from dashboard?!

who the f uses a tv as source with this crappy 5.1 surround system?!

Er, everyone with a Beam, Ray or Arc I would imagine. That is kind of the point of the devices.

ok, nice for them … how can the rest uf us remove that source?!

jgatie
October 3, 2024

ok, nice for them … how can the rest uf us remove that source?!

 

You don’t.  5.1 surround was made for TV.  It would be like asking “how do I remove this radio source from my car radio?”

Lyricist III
October 3, 2024

how can i remove the stupid tv source from dashboard?!

who the f uses a tv as source with this crappy 5.1 surround system?!

Er, everyone with a Beam, Ray or Arc I would imagine. That is kind of the point of the devices.

ok, nice for them … how can the rest uf us remove that source?!

You can remove the sources list from your dashboard by disabling it. (scroll to the bottom of your Home Screen and hit edit home ) 

Voila your tv source is gone  

This won’t work if you use local library 

usethisAuthor
Contributor I
October 4, 2024

not the complete sources list, i need the analog input of the amp for a cd-player.

just remove the “tv”

 

ok, nice for them … how can the rest uf us remove that source?!

 

You don’t.  5.1 surround was made for TV.  It would be like asking “how do I remove this radio source from my car radio?”

 

ok, so if i buy a sonos amp for just playing music with 2 speakers it means i want to build a 5.1 too..?!

 

Prodigy III
October 4, 2024

You could just ignore it? The main question though is why did you buy a Sonos soundbar if you’re not going to use it with a TV? That’s the reason TV is showing as a source. If all you wanted was to listen to music, that money would have gone a long way towards dedicated Sonos music speakers (e.g. 2 x Era 300s for both stereo and Dolby Atmos).

jgatie
October 4, 2024

not the complete sources list, i need the analog input of the amp for a cd-player.

just remove the “tv”

 

ok, nice for them … how can the rest uf us remove that source?!

 

You don’t.  5.1 surround was made for TV.  It would be like asking “how do I remove this radio source from my car radio?”

 

ok, so if i buy a sonos amp for just playing music with 2 speakers it means i want to build a 5.1 too..?!

 

 

But you didn’t “buy a Sonos Amp”, did you?  You bought a soundbar, which by its very definition is made to broadcast TV. 

usethisAuthor
Contributor I
October 4, 2024

not the complete sources list, i need the analog input of the amp for a cd-player.

just remove the “tv”

 

ok, nice for them … how can the rest uf us remove that source?!

 

You don’t.  5.1 surround was made for TV.  It would be like asking “how do I remove this radio source from my car radio?”

 

ok, so if i buy a sonos amp for just playing music with 2 speakers it means i want to build a 5.1 too..?!

 

 

But you didn’t “buy a Sonos Amp”, did you?  You bought a soundbar, which by its very definition is made to broadcast TV. 

 

ciao jgatie

no, i have a sonos AMP, no soundbar. Its only use is to play music.

For myself I have no Problem to ignore it. OK, lets say a little. Other systems I have i’m used to customize settings like this in frontend. It looks like that with Sonos you can't adjust anything. Not even fixed IPs, but this is out of topic.

The Problem is with a costumer I have installed this system (about 10 sonos devices).
So they see this Button “TV”, press on it, and nothing worked. So i wanted to remove it.

I normaly configure frontends only with buttons that are with a function, and disable/hide/remove the rest.

Just to keep it clean and simple. Specially if I configure systems for older people. Just don’t want

unusable stuff at a dashboard. Am I so wrong with that?!

Is it that hard to give the client the possibility to hide stuff like this..?!

 

As workaround i have set up an Openhab Server with Sonos binding. With its frontend i can customize 

everything. So they don’t need the unusable Sonos App anymore.

 

 

jgatie
October 4, 2024

Again this begs the question - Why would anyone buy a soundbar to only play music?  Personally, I see this as just as inexplicable as buying a TV to only play music and covering the picture with a sheet.  

Lyricist III
October 4, 2024

I get that you don’t want to remove sources and lose the line in link, but if you turn auto play on the line in you could remove sources from the home screen as it’ll switch automatically.