Contributor III

How to get Sonos Amp to play when using eArc from TV to receiver?

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Hi all,

I am needing some assistance with trying to get sound from my Sonos Amp zone in the Kitchen to play with my living room.

My setup right now is as follows:

Sonos Port connected to Receiver using audio out (Sonos Port) & Audio in (receiver)
TV connected to Receiver via eArc

When I am playing sound from TV to receiver via eArc, how do I go about adding my zone in the kitchen to play along with my living room speakers? What is the proper input/output methods to getting this to work?

Thank you!

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jgatie

Why a receiver? The Arc is meant to replace a receiver.

But to answer your question, group the Amp with the Arc.

Group and ungroup rooms

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ItsmejsonAuthor

Contributor III

@jgatie - What is the best way I should have the TV connected to the receiver and Sonos Port?

This is how my setup is currently connected

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early rejecter

Collaborator II

Another user was having a similar issue yesterday and it was determined that digital signals were not able to be output through the analog out on his receiver — so his receiver would send his turntable audio to his Port, for example, but not his TV or game system. Perhaps yours has the same limitation?

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John B

I don’t think we have quite got to grips with the scenario yet.

If I understand correctly what you are trying to do (not necessarily the case), you need an OUTPUT from the receiver running to the line-in on the Port. You can then group the Port with the Amp in the kitchen. Or you may just need to specify the Amp as the Autoplay room for the Port.

So the question is whether your receiver has a suitable output connection. You might have a TAPE OUT connection for example.

I am not 100% sure you will be able to get perfect sync.

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ItsmejsonAuthor

Contributor III

I don’t think we have quite got to grips with the scenario yet.

If I understand correctly what you are trying to do (not necessarily the case), you need an OUTPUT from the receiver running to the line-in on the Port. You can then group the Port with the Amp in the kitchen. Or you may just need to specify the Amp as the Autoplay room for the Port.

So the question is whether your receiver has a suitable output connection. You might have a TAPE OUT connection for example.

I am not 100% sure you will be able to get perfect sync.

John that is correct. Tv is connected to receiver via eArc and port is connected to receiver.

The 2 scenarios - if I play Spotify on my TV. Music only plays from the living room zone only. I would like to in this scenario to have Sonos group multiple zones and play throughout.

2nd scenario - watching lives sports I want to group multiple zones.

106rallye

Another user was having a similar issue yesterday and it was determined that digital signals were not able to be output through the analog out on his receiver — so his receiver would send his turntable audio to his Port, for example, but not his TV or game system. Perhaps yours has the same limitation?

Then this is probably the answer, when connecting the Port to an out on the receiver doesn’t get you any sound.

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ItsmejsonAuthor

Contributor III

@106rallye Am I needing to connect an out from the receiver to the input of the port?

This is how I have it setup currently:

Ken_Griffiths

If you are looking to output the TV audio to your Kitchen Zone (which presumably is some other Sonos speakers), then you need to output the audio from your Receiver to the Sonos Port and play it’s line-in audio to the Kitchen devices.

At the moment, looking at the images posted, you have the Port setup to the Receivers line-in. You need to connect it to the Receiver line-out (if it has one?) and then to the line-in on the Port.

Edit: I see now the Kitchen zone is a Sonos Amp - anyhow, the above still applies.

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early rejecter

Collaborator II

Is that a Denon AVR-S750H by any chance? If so, the only output on that receiver is for a subwoofer -- you won’t be able to accomplish the setup you’re looking for.

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ItsmejsonAuthor

Contributor III

@early rejecter & @Ken_Griffiths thank you. The receiver is the denon s760h. I’m relatively new to AV gear and do not know what a line out is.

I looked at the back of the s760h and I do not see a line out. Does the new Onkyo TX-NR6050 have what I need?

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