Speaker output goes to SPDIF instead of HDMI

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Sometimes, when we select TV as our source, it gives us sound from our Sonos Beam, but not our additional living room speakers. When we try to add those speakers and hit Apply, we lose all sound, and “SPDIF: shows under the TV audio label instead of HDMI.

Why does this setting get turned on and how do we avoid it?

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Jswestha

Lyricist III

This is what I see. And I’ve turned my Samsung TV to “optical” for audio output, but I don’t hear anything. Previously, it said “HDMI” under TV AUDIO on the Sonos app, but now it says SPDIF and the audio has stopped working

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teebolt

Lyricist I

Same issue. Lv Rm plays TV HDMI and the other 2 amps Back Porch and Kitchen only read SPDIF. No way to switch this. Any help? When you go to Source the only option is TV Audio. Sure would like to play Youtube concerts over the whole system. What a novel idea. Analog never has this problem. Found the receivers on both the TV and Data Room and both are hooked up to ARC In and ARC Out. Wondering if I switch this to SPDIF In and SPDIF Out. But my guess is I will lose TV Audio Sound? Do i need to power down the whole system in order to make this change?

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Dr-MG-Midget

Lyricist III

I have the same issues. Samsung frame connected to Sonos Arc but app says SPDIF and no audio coming through Arc, only using TV audio. Started happening immediately after update.

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Dr-MG-Midget

Lyricist III

Here is what worked for me -

Pushed in the HDMI more firmly at both the tv and ARC end. Changed audio settings under advanced on tv to eARC (maybe overwritten by a Samsung update rather than Sonos?) as it wasn’t correctly set. Then set up tv in Sonos app and suddenly went from SPDIF to HDMI! Hooray! Hope it works for anyone else with similar issues.

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Sdysasaki

Lyricist I

I think it’s a Samsung issue. Most people here so far have said Samsung. Only thing I have found that fixes this every time is resetting Samsung tv back to factory default settings. Once I do this will go back to normal.

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Jdevrie

Lyricist III

I just discovered this problem between my Philips 65OLED705/12 and my Sonos system. I simply disconnected the HDMI cable from the beam gen 2 and reconnected it again and the problem was gone.

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