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Ummagumma
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September 24, 2023

optical adapter too big

I have a New Qled Samsung TV and have purchased a Sonos Beam Gen 2 and a Sub Mini, all great but I’ve been having a issues with the Sonos disconnecting and reverting the TV back to TV speaker.

I also have a 4K Amazon Firestick and suspicious it is this causing the conflict.

The Sonos is connected to the HDMI - e Arc (3) and the Firestick is connected to HDMI 2.

I’ve read that others on here have had this or similar problems and disabled CEC on the Amazon Firestick, I’ve done this now and hope it cures it.

I did try the supplied Optical to HDMI cable as an alternative connection but the body seems to be a bit too big to connect it correctly to the TV and couldn’t get it to work.

Any help with this would be much appreciated.

 

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Ummagumma
UmmagummaAuthor
Trending Lyricist II
September 30, 2023

Firesticks seem to be a common issue that deal with CEC poorly, you’ll find lots of threads where people have had to use the Lindy CEC blocker, I suspect. Not sure why Amazon has such difficulty here, perhaps they’re trying to ‘do’ something, and it just isn’t sympatico. 

Well it lasted a week, this morning the tv reverted to TV speaker again.

So I’m about to order the Lindy CEC Blocker.

Question should I connect the Blocker to the Sonos via the HDMI e-Arc, or the Firestick via the HDMI port?

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Grand Maestro
September 30, 2023

Try the Firestick first. Inserting the blocker into the BEAM 2 connection will disable CEC Volume commands to BEAM 2. If you need to insert the blocker in the BEAM 2 connection, then setup IR BEAM 2 Volume control for your remotes.

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    Grand Maestro
    September 30, 2023

    I was just looking at your photo above and there appears to be a bent pin above the TOSLINK connector.

      Ummagumma
      UmmagummaAuthor
      Trending Lyricist II
      September 30, 2023

      I was just looking at your photo above and there appears to be a bent pin above the TOSLINK connector.

      Theres 2 usb ports above the TOSLINK they are both unused. cant see any bent pins.

      Try the Firestick first. Inserting the blocker into the BEAM 2 connection will disable CEC Volume commands to BEAM 2. If you need to insert the blocker in the BEAM 2 connection, then setup IR BEAM 2 Volume control for your remotes.

      I use the Sonos app to control the volume on Sonos Beam. 

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