Turn Beam off

Why would anyone want to return to crappy TV speakers? If lower volume at night is your goal, I suggest the down volume control on your remote. Night Mode on the Beam helps, too.

This is painful. If I get a movie with DTS and want to switch back to the TV speakers to actually hear something, the only way seems to be power the beam off. I have the power located behind the TV, which makes this very annoying.
Should be able to turn off the beam via the app.

I have the same issue. Anynet (CEC) attempts to disconnect on command, which does happen for about 3 seconds before Sonos Beam overrides the command. My solution is to disconnect the HDMI from the rear of the Beam, which allows access to other audio outputs such as TV speakers or Bluetooth Headphones. I note this is a fundamental flaw in the Beam setup, and has been going on for a while. It's about time the engineers at Sonos came up with a solution.

Hi there.
Just received my Beam, and I'm quite disappointed to confirm that HDMI ARC can not be deactivated at all. Choosing the audio output on my LG TV has no effect, since it comes back to HDMI ARC a few seconds later. I have some scenarios where I have to use other audio outputs, and adding the Beam in the workflow just breaks everything.

I do understand that the TV has to automatically select HDMI ARC if available from the ARC norm, so the solution would be to turn it off on the beam itself.

Any chance happen (ideally, soon)?

Hi. I’m new to the forum / community and this is my first post. I have just completed setting up my Sonos Beam and am very happy. It has taken the place of an older Samsung Playbar which I would use when we decided to watch a movie for improved “cinema sound” - well, better than tv speakers at any rate! Having just finished watching our first movie with the Beam in action I wanted to switch back to the tv speakers, turning off the play beam. This was possible with the Samsung but not with the Sonos Beam?

This is a real negative for me personally! I really think this should be made possible to give people the option. We live in a semi detached property and I don’t want to disturb or upset my neighbours!

Please, please, please can this be addressed. Is it possible?

Hi Bferry 70. You can disconnect the HDMI lead from the back of the Beam, which will allow you to use TV speakers or BT headphones. When you want to use the Beam again, just plug it back in. Better than removing the power from the Beam as this requires the Beam to re-connect to Wi-Fi which can take a minute or two. I agree this is not an ideal solution, but there have been several requests to Sonos engineers to enable a Beam disconnection facility via software.

Hi Cardiff Station. Thanks for the reply. Would this not result in a loose / dodgy connection over time? I really hope that Sonos offer a solution with firmware update. Do you think they will? I’m more concerned that the wife gets fed up of there being no simple solution and insists on it being removed or replaced! Fingers crossed that Sonos deal with this soon!

We see this request occasionally and I've never understood why one would want to use TV speakers after using a proper sound system. My surround sound system is used 24/7, if the sound is too loud for the content, I turn it down. In fact, I've actually owned TVs that I've never heard the sound on.

something as simple as switching the beam off with software should be a no brainer. In my case its about wanting to use bluetooth headphones without having to remove a cable from the back of the beam its not about turning off to switch back to rubbish tv speakers. Disabling hdmi cec on my samsung tv doesnt do the trick either the beam still kicks back in alongside the bluetooth headphones. Just switched from a denon heos system to a so called better system but already found a problem with my beam on the first day that i didnt have on my heos system. Its a big issue for me b ecause at night i use bluetooth headphones quite often. Aside from that very happy with everything else the beam offers

Hi there.
Just received my Beam, and I'm quite disappointed to confirm that HDMI ARC can not be deactivated at all. Choosing the audio output on my LG TV has no effect, since it comes back to HDMI ARC a few seconds later. I have some scenarios where I have to use other audio outputs, and adding the Beam in the workflow just breaks everything.

I do understand that the TV has to automatically select HDMI ARC if available from the ARC norm, so the solution would be to turn it off on the beam itself.

Any chance happen (ideally, soon)?

Please turn off SIMPLINK (LG's version of HDMI CEC) in the TV options, should be there under general and that should turn off HDMI ARC which will let you choose the other sound output options from the TV. Selecting the output to ARC will turn it back on and you will need to repeat the process for the next time.