I'm thinking of getting a Sonos Beam gen 2 soundbar but because of the specs the bar is too high and covers the IR receiver on my 2021 Sony TV X90J. Does anyone know any solution? Thanks.
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The sonos beam covers the IR receiver on my TV
Best answer by Ken_Griffiths
Just to clarify, I was referring to the case where the TV is not using an IR remote (I don’t think the Sony remote is infrared, by default, as it has a built in voice-feature option).
So the TV receives all commands from the Bluetooth/wireless, remote …then using CEC it sends the volume commands to the Beam via the HDMI cable. If there is a universal IR option available for the ‘remote’ too, it can be enabled for the Beam IR receiver only, I guess, but I would not recommend that personally speaking as the volume/mute instructions may be received twice when the TV is ‘on’ but this can vary by TV make/model.
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+18You could put your TV on a shallow base, so it will sit higher up.
By the way: are your sure your 2021 TV still uses ir? Most TV's use bluetooth by now, I would expect.
If the Sony remote has ‘voice assistant’ support, it’s likely not using infrared - that’s often one way to tell, but the Beam2 would normally be connected by HDMI ARC/eARC to the TV anyway and so it’s likely that infrared would not be needed to control volume etc; as CEC control would be available to you.
+18Just to clarify, I was referring to the case where the TV is not using an IR remote (I don’t think the Sony remote is infrared, by default, as it has a built in voice-feature option).
So the TV receives all commands from the Bluetooth/wireless, remote …then using CEC it sends the volume commands to the Beam via the HDMI cable. If there is a universal IR option available for the ‘remote’ too, it can be enabled for the Beam IR receiver only, I guess, but I would not recommend that personally speaking as the volume/mute instructions may be received twice when the TV is ‘on’ but this can vary by TV make/model.
+18If the Sony remote has ‘voice assistant’ support, it’s likely not using infrared - that’s often one way to tell, but the Beam2 would normally be connected by HDMI ARC/eARC to the TV anyway and so it’s likely that infrared would not be needed to control volume etc; as CEC control would be available to you.
Ah, right. Your statement about ir “would not be needed to control volume” is meant for the case where the ir-remote would control the Beam directly.
A simple booster / base under the TV stand may be enough, I used a couple lengths of 1x2 spray painted black.
With the bigger new TV and Arc, we went to a much nicer stand that offers adjustable height (needed as the Arc is way taller than the Beam) as well as swivel and tilt to get the best picture.
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