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scg1889
Contributor I
May 24, 2019
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Turning off Sonos Beam

Hi

Very basic question!

Is there any way (except unplugging) to turn the sonos beam off?

Thanks!
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      Jeff S
      Jeff SAnswer
      Retired Sonos Staff
      May 24, 2019
      Hi

      Very basic question!

      Is there any way (except unplugging) to turn the sonos beam off?

      Thanks!

      Hi scg1889,

      Welcome to the community. The Sonos speakers are designed to go into a low power usage, standby mode when not in use. There are no power buttons, and no way to turn the speakers off other than removing them from power.
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      GarethDE
      Lyricist III
      January 5, 2020

      @Stanley_4 :

      Yup, that’s what I figured regarding the boot time. I haven’t measured it but it’s probably on the order of a minute or two to load all the software, join the WiFi network and set up the handshaking between devices. 

      And that’s a good point about the number of power cycles the equipment is specified for. I’ve come across that in my work too (satellites rather than home cinema).

      All this would be irrelevant if Sonos just included an option to disable the ARC override if TV sound output. 

      nik9669a
      Senior Virtuoso
      January 5, 2020

      I’m not familiar enough with HDMI-ARC so excuse me if this is a stupid suggestion: could you use a standard HDMI connector and cable instead?

      Ken_Griffiths
      Ken_Griffiths
      January 5, 2020

      @Stanley_4 :

      Yup, that’s what I figured regarding the boot time. I haven’t measured it but it’s probably on the order of a minute or two to load all the software, join the WiFi network and set up the handshaking between devices. 

      And that’s a good point about the number of power cycles the equipment is specified for. I’ve come across that in my work too (satellites rather than home cinema).

      All this would be irrelevant if Sonos just included an option to disable the ARC override if TV sound output. 

      Not sure if this helps achieve what some in this thread are seeking to do...

      I think the easiest way is to switch off HDMI-CEC on the TV, rather than the Sonos product to stop the Beam intervening. This common standard has a variety of different names depending on TV manufacturer, as follows.…

      • Samsung - Anynet+
      • Sony - BRAVIA Link or BRAVIA Sync
      • LG - SimpLink
      • Sharp - Aquos Link
      • Vizio- CEC
      • Hitachi - HDMI-CEC
      • AOC - E-link
      • Pioneer - Kuro Link
      • Toshiba - Regza Link or CE-Link
      • Onkyo - RIHD (Remote Interactive over HDMI)
      • Panasonic - VIERA Link or HDAVI Control or EZ-Sync
      • Philips - EasyLink
      • Mitsubishi - NetCommand for HDMI
      • Runco International - RuncoLink
      • Insignia - InLink
      • JVC - CEC
      • Magnavox - Fun-Link
      • Sylvania - Fun-Link
      • Sansui - EasyConnect

      Just switch off the feature in the TV Settings and then Bluetooth headphones and other audio sources, including internal TV speakers etc. will then become available. At least that eliminates having to wait for devices to power on and boot up.

        GarethDE
        Lyricist III
        January 5, 2020

        @Ken_Griffiths : That seems to work perfectly for my Samsung TV - I switched off AnyNet+ via the TV menu and the TV immediately switched back to using the internal speakers.

        Switch it back on and the Sonos takes over again after a few seconds. 

        Thanks for that very useful info!

          GarethDE
          Lyricist III
          January 5, 2020

          @nik9669a : Its worth trying. It might be that without the ARC the Sonos would not receive the “wake up” from the TV but I don’t know enough about the standard to say either way. The cable itself is probably just a standard HDMI, and not ARC specific?

          Ken_Griffiths
          Ken_Griffiths
          January 5, 2020

          @nik9669a : Its worth trying. It might be that without the ARC the Sonos would not receive the “wake up” from the TV but I don’t know enough about the standard to say either way. The cable itself is probably just a standard HDMI, and not ARC specific?

          I think ni9669a will need to connect the Beam to the TV’s HDMI-ARC port. Note however there are such things as CEC-LESS HDMI cables and adapters available via Amazon and other good online websites that will block the HDMI-CEC instructions, but you then presumably lose the option to control volume etc; via the Beam itself. So not sure that’s a good idea at all and I’m fairly sure a normal HDMI port will not work with the Beam otherwise that might have been mentioned as the minimum requirement for the product. The alternative would be to use the optical port with the Sonos HDMI to Optical Adapter that Sonos supply with the Beam, I think.

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