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Avid Contributor I
May 23, 2019

Useful "hack" for Beam for volume control

Hi guys,

So, when the TV is off, HDMI-CEC is of no use, and you can't control the volume with the remote of your TV.

By sacrificing HDMI-CEC, you lose the option turn off TV, and some other useful bits, BUT... if you program the IR sensor to work with your TV's remote, you can use it for volume control even when the TV is off. That is better than HDMI-CEC for me. :)

Hope you find is useful as well!
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    Jeff S
    Retired Sonos Staff
    May 23, 2019
    Hi Herr_Vlad,

    Thanks for sharing this workaround. Hopefully this is helpful for some folks.
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    Lyricist II
    October 14, 2019

    except there are bugs some of us have found in the IR functionality… https://en.community.sonos.com/troubleshooting-228999/beam-ir-sensor-stopped-recognizing-remotes-6827194#post16367496

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