Dear all,
I bought myself a sonos Ray to connect it to my Xgimi mogo 2 pro beamer. The beamer only has a HDMI output but i assumed i could use the sonos optical audio adapter to convert the HDMI signal to the optical port of the Sonos Ray. It doesn’t work.
Could there be another solution for this problem? is there a way to convert the HDMI audio signal to optical so i can use the Ray?
Thank you!
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Sonos Ray - HDMI to optical converter
Best answer by Airgetlam
That means the HDMI cable is sending out audio on a different set of pins than it comes in on, which makes things more challenging, and expensive, to my knowledge. You’d need another HDMI ARC to optical converter, something which isn’t standard with a normal HDMI switch.
The ones I’m familiar with are the HD Fury Arcana, the Feintech VAX04101k, and the OREI HDA-935. You can also order from those links from the companies directly, or check your local retailers for availability. Amazon may carry some, depending on location. At this point, there may be more manufacturers, I haven’t been keeping track.
On the other hand, I’ve not really investigated any optical outputs on these devices.
Since the Ray doesn’t do Dolby Atmos, I’d be awfully tempted to pull off the audio using a standard switch before the signal reaches the projector, and not after. Much less expensive, and you don’t need to worry about ARC stuff.
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A simple HDMI switch often comes with an optical output. You’d need another HDMI cable as well.
Things get much more complicated if this HDMI port is an ARC or eARC HDMI output.
That means the HDMI cable is sending out audio on a different set of pins than it comes in on, which makes things more challenging, and expensive, to my knowledge. You’d need another HDMI ARC to optical converter, something which isn’t standard with a normal HDMI switch.
The ones I’m familiar with are the HD Fury Arcana, the Feintech VAX04101k, and the OREI HDA-935. You can also order from those links from the companies directly, or check your local retailers for availability. Amazon may carry some, depending on location. At this point, there may be more manufacturers, I haven’t been keeping track.
On the other hand, I’ve not really investigated any optical outputs on these devices.
Since the Ray doesn’t do Dolby Atmos, I’d be awfully tempted to pull off the audio using a standard switch before the signal reaches the projector, and not after. Much less expensive, and you don’t need to worry about ARC stuff.
Bruce
You are probably better off getting a Beam, or doing as
+18I just agree… take the Beam or if you already have the Ray, take a HDMI switch with audioextractor to toslink output.
These are the only options. For converting HDMI ARC audio to toslink I don’t know any device that would do that.
Doesn’t one of the devices I linked to have an optical output? Not Atmos, certainly, and way too expensive, but wasn’t trying to force my judgements on the OP.
+18Doesn’t one of the devices I linked to have an optical output? Not Atmos, certainly, and way too expensive, but wasn’t trying to force my judgements on the OP.
Sorry Bruce… no optical out on these devices. All of them are made to support atmos trueHD on setups where the tv can’t do so. So no need of optical connection. Would be like a Porsche 911 with tow-bar. 😉
Thank you for your feedback! So this means there is no solution at this moment With the beamer and the ray i have?
+18The Sonos optical adapter is, according to https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/optical-audio-adapter, only “Compatible with Sonos Arc, Amp, and Beam”. It works from optical to HDMI. You need something that works the other way round.
+18Thank you for your feedback! So this means there is no solution at this moment With the beamer and the ray i have?
As mentioned above you can use a hdmi switch with audioextractor to toslink (optical) option.
You will have to connect your source devices via hdmi directly to the switch input ports. Ray can be connected via toslink to the switch. The beamer can be connected to the hdmi out of the switch.
+18It actually is hdmi-arc. Would this be the problem?
and is there a solution?
I took a look at your beamers tech specs on the net and it seems just to have a single standard hdmi input without arc support.
it actually has ARC support.
I already tried with a convertor but this also did not work; is there anyone who could recommend me a (cheap) working convertor?
Thank you so much!
+18it actually has ARC support.
I already tried with a convertor but this also did not work; is there anyone who could recommend me a (cheap) working convertor?
Thank you so much!
Ok… maybe there are different versions of the beamer available. Nevertheless… which „converter“ exactly did you try?
You don’t need a „converter“… you need a hdmi audioextractor !!! (with optical audio output)
How many HDMI in ports does your beamer have? Depending on that and on the question if one supports hdmi arc with passthrough, you will need a simple hdmi audioextractor with optical audio out and just an hdmi arc output, or you will need an audioextractor with hdmi switch functionality, multiple hdmi inputs and one normal hdmi output.
EDIT: a picture is more than 1000 words… 😉
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Here two examples I found on Amazon DE…
Alt. 1 manufacturer „FeinTech“
Alt. 2 manufacturer „SpeaKa“
Hi,
I have a similar problem (getting HDMI output into the Ray). Maybe some aspect of what I tried is helpful for others, but I have a pretty convoluted setup that grew into this state while I was learning. And now I am stuck and I need help :-)
My aim is to get 5.1 audio from playing titles on GeForce Now with the NVIDIA Shield Pro. I have a Sonos Ray and two Ones for 5.1, and I have a simple HDMI splitter that provides 5.1 pass-through via optical to the Ray. This works fine for movies I watch on the Shield. Games, however, get down mixed to stereo. This is because the games do not support the Dolby 5.1 codec (I think). So I was looking for a more versatile audio extractor and borrowed the Fury Arcana. When I launch a game on GFN, the Fury sends out LPCM 5.1 in 48 kHz. Which is fine for the Ray, I guess. BUT the Fury has no optical output. So I think what I need is a splitter that takes the signal from the Fury and converts it to optical. The above-mentioned simple HDMI splitter is not up to the job when I plug it into the Fury eARC output. There is no signal coming to the Ray. Would anyone have a suggestion on this? I learned about the Fury Vertex2 on their discord channel, but this is way too expensive. Thank you :-)
To answer my own question after some research: Seems LPCM is NOT okay for the Ray. It only takes DD5.1, DTS or Stereo. And there seems to be no straightforward way to recode LPCM to DD. So I guess I am out of options… :-/
+18To answer my own question after some research: Seems LPCM is NOT okay for the Ray. It only takes DD5.1, DTS or Stereo. And there seems to be no straightforward way to recode LPCM to DD. So I guess I am out of options… :-/
You’re right… as you can see here:
https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/supported-home-theater-audio-formats
PCM multichannel needs eARC connection.
I recommend to switch from Ray to Beam2 to get full audio format support.
Thank you, did exactly that ☺️ As I found here on the forum, the speaker needs to have an initial ARC HDMI handshake with ANY capable screen and work only then in conjunction with the Fury and a non-ARC computer screen. This forum is really helpful!! Thank you.
+18
Thank you for reporting feedback and great you got it sorted. 😎
Ralf
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