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Sonos Arc/300s/Sub Gen 3 home theatre with a receiver

  • 6 July 2024
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Hey all,

My current home theater is powered by a receiver with an Apple TV 4K/Nintendo Switch/PS5/my current speakers outputting via HDMI to my television. 
 

I’ve connected my Arc/dual 300s/ sub and they can play Sonos Radio and my connected music services fine, but I can’t get the television/receiver audio to play through the Sonos speakers. I have the receiver into an HDMI port on the television, and the Arc plugged into the HDMI ARC port on the TV. I’ve also set the television to output audio via the HDMI ARC port, but no dice. 
 

Am I forgetting something obvious? Thanks in advance!

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AjTrek1

What is the receiver being used for?

Typically a Sonos home theater connects as follows:

  • Sonos soundbar (Arc/Beam2 or Ray) with surrounds and/or sub bonded to the Sonos Soundbar.
  • In your case it would be Sonos Arc (connected to TV ARC or eARC port via HDMI) with 300’s x 2 and sub bonded to Sonos Arc.

A Receiver is typically used to send audio from a connected component such as a turntable or CD player to Sonos speakers by connecting a Sonos Port to an available RCA-Out on the Receiver.

If there are speakers connected to the receiver you can stream Sonos music to them via the Port connected to an available RCA-In on the Receiver.

The Port can be connected to the receiver via its RCA-Out and RCA-In ports simultaneously 

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S

What is the receiver being used for?


As of today, I was hoping to use it basically as an HDMI hub. All my stuff is already connected to it, and it has more HDMI ports than my television does. I was hoping to keep all of my non-speaker electronics plugged into the receiver, and have all audio/video flow from the receiver to the TV to the Arc. Is the only possible solution to plug all of my other electronics into the TV directly?

AjTrek1

What is the receiver being used for?


As of today, I was hoping to use it basically as an HDMI hub. All my stuff is already connected to it, and it has more HDMI ports than my television does. I was hoping to keep all of my non-speaker electronics plugged into the receiver, and have all audio/video flow from the receiver to the TV to the Arc. Is the only possible solution to plug all of my other electronics into the TV directly?

If you want to use your receiver as hub connect the Receiver via HDMI and select that input on your TV when using a device that is connected to the receiver.  

For example: In my setup my AppleTV is connected to HDMI 4 on my TV. I must select HDMI 4 and then video is shown on screen and audio goes to my Arc. *  In theory that should work. However, there may be some conversion process in the background that is negating the end result we seek.

Note: My AppleTV represents your receiver.

 * My TV supports automatic (HDMI) switching when I power on my AppleTV so no need to manually select HDMI 4.

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