I have searched, and searched, and tried mutiple different ways to make this work with no luck. Here is a breakdown of my setup, and what I have tried.



My tv does not pass 5.1 to the playbar, when I upgrade in a few months ill make sure this is not an issue, but until then here is what im wroking with.



Im using a playbar, sub, and a pair of play 3's connected wirelessly. Tv (samsung, which does not passthrew 5.1) and the devices connected are my xbox 1 and my pc.



Works:

X box 1 connected via optical to the following switcher (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HQ2R38C/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) which is then connected to the play bar. Hdmi out directly to the tv for video only. This works great.



Does not work (Sound passes threw but its in stereo)

Computer, I have my opticial connected to my Asus xonar dgx sound card (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007TMZ1BK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) to the optical switcher, same as the x box one. Hdmi out from my video card to the TV.



Things I have tried.



Hdmi switcher for the xbox 1 and the tv (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017MUWYLS/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) This did not work for either the xbox one or the pc.



So basically im asking the following questions

1) is there a sound card thats known to pass 5.1 from your pc to the sonos?

2) Is there another way I could be doing this?



Any help would be great, im pretty tech savy, and have spent alot of time trying to make this work with no luck, which is pretty disheartening.