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Davkel
Contributor I
May 13, 2022
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Sonos Beam and Connect

So i have a Beam connected tot he TV that uses ARC, works really well, love it. I also have a projector that we use to watch movies but it doesn’t support ARC, I wanted to use the Beam with it. If I were to buy a connect would this allow be to run a line-in from the projector to the connect and then link the connect to the beam in the app. In theory I believe this would work but would there be latency issues???

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jgatie
jgatieAnswer
May 13, 2022

The line-in on any Sonos device will always have a 75ms latency to the source.  

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jgatie
jgatieAnswer
May 13, 2022

The line-in on any Sonos device will always have a 75ms latency to the source.  

Airgetlam
Airgetlam
May 13, 2022

In addition, the CONNECT is a stereo device, and will not pass a 5.1 signal of any type to the Sonos soundbar.

Bruce
DavkelAuthor
Contributor I
May 13, 2022

Ok think I've found a device that could work, it's an arc audio extractor, 1hdmi in and then an audio and video HDMI out I'll give that a go

DavkelAuthor
Contributor I
May 19, 2022

Just another query as I’m about to try something, I have a low latency Bluetooth transmitter that I have paired with my sonos roam. In theory, if i connect the transmitter to the projector and put the roam beside it, I could then join the audio from the roam to the Beam, now the ram latency is negligible when I did this before and I know it would only be 2.1 but it could work…...right….

I will experiment with this and let anyone that cares know whether or not this worked.

 

ratty
ratty
May 19, 2022

The Roam doesn’t support aptX of any flavour, and certainly not aptX Low Latency. A Bluetooth transmitter would therefore fall back to using SBC to talk to the Roam. SBC has a latency of somewhere around 200-250ms, quite sufficient to ruin lip-sync.

    DavkelAuthor
    Contributor I
    May 19, 2022

    😪 You’re right, I did a quick test and it was not pretty. I think I’ll just buya  cheap soundbar for the proj that has aux, I’m over complicating things

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