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My newer Samsung TV has a feature titled ‘Universal Remote’. Works great with the TV’s Bluetooth remote also having an IR transmitter that emulates many brand IR codes. The brand selected in the ‘Theater’ group drop-down list is Sonos. Mute and Vol. work great. The TV auto switches to optical on power-up seamlessly. Luv it! 

I have a desktop FLAC player with optical out. I remove the TOSlink cable from the TV and simply insert it into the player. Works great playing audio. But… when I connect the cable back to the TV (which is off the whole time) and power up the system, all remote and Optical TV settings drop to ‘TV Speaker’ having to reprogram all TV settings. 

This makes no sense why a cable change to a different device blows the TV’s programmed settings. I didn’t find a solution but have a theory the TV sleeps (not actually off) and detects when the cable loses light switching sources. It  instantly defaults back to TV Speaker and doesn't retain the remote programming. Yep, a Do- Over each time swapped. 

I was going to order a 3 port in, one port out Toslink switcher to select different sources. This anomaly is a Samsung thing where a switcher would still duplicate the cable (light break) swap. I posted for any having a similar idea, finding it’s a nope with Sammy stuff. 

 

 

Are you unplugging the TOS cable at the TV or the Ray? At the TV end there might be a hidden sensor.

I've used optical switches with Sonos with good results, splitters too which is handy for Bluetooth headphones. 

Interesting. I unplug from the TV end but pretty sure it doesn’t matter. The Ray works dandy fine when the source is swapped, it’s the Samsung detecting the change. A ‘sensor’ switch wouldn’t be the in TOS lift door as it’s for light blocking and a dust shield. The TOS LED is on when the TV is ‘off’ lifting the TOS door to peek. I think it’s monitored as simply unplugging the fiber dumps any Optical/IR remote definitions. 

A separate Sonos programed remote would save one step - reprogramming the Samsung factory remote. The ‘Sound’ setting still requires changing back to Optical manually. Not trying a switch I’m not sure but it might be worth a try. 

Thanks for the info.! 

 

 

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