Sonos Beam Optical input no longer working
I’ve had a Sonos Beam for several years, hooked up to a system to allow me to play output from my computer. This required a bit of tinkering to get right! I had to:
- Buy a device that converts USB → SPDIF
- Get a SPDIF → HDMI converter
- Connect all that up so that I had USB → SPDIF → HDMI → HDMI into the Beam
Since getting that sorted it has worked great! Until yesterday, when suddenly I could no longer get any audio through this setup :(. In all other respects the Beam works fine - I can connect to it through the app and play audio that way, and it correctly makes noises when I press the buttons.
Things I’ve tried to fix the problem:
- Unplug and replug all of the various connections
- Reboot computer
- Reboot Beam
- Fiddle around with the audio output settings from my computer (as far as I can tell they are all fine)
- Rotate the HDMI-HDMI cable
I’m pretty sure that everything is fine as far as the USB->SPDIF converter, because you don’t have an optical cable plugged in you can see the red light that the converter sends down the the SPDIF out. And nothing has happened recently that would explain why the rest of the cabling has stopped working. So I was wondering if perhaps there has been a firmware update of some kind for the Beam that might have broken this.
Anyone have any ideas what the cause might be, and what I could try to fix it?
