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Sonos Beam HDMI idea

  • September 4, 2018
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JackWright
The Sonos Beam doesn't just receive HDMI signals, but sends them out too. This is evident by the fact if you select your source to the HDMI ARC connection the Beam is using, you get pre-designed patterns being sent as video to your TV.

What if Sonos could update the speaker to display music covers, music videos, music details like; time, title, artist etc.?

Short and sweet, but I think that would be awesome.
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Ryan S
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  • Retired Sonos Staff
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  • September 4, 2018
Hi Jack, we'll pass along the suggestion for you! Thanks for asking.

  • Lyricist II
  • 3 replies
  • September 4, 2018
If playing music on the Sonos Beam, does it send the audio back down the HDMI-ARC. That way you could then run a music visualiser such as projectm app on an Android TV?

JackWright
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  • September 4, 2018
Plum67 wrote:
If playing music on the Sonos Beam, does it send the audio back down the HDMI-ARC. That way you could then run a music visualiser such as projectm app on an Android TV?


Unfortunately not, it just sends looping patterns as video with no audio to the TV.

  • Lyricist II
  • 3 replies
  • September 4, 2018
Would be nice at a party if it did

JackWright
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  • September 4, 2018
Plum67 wrote:
Would be nice at a party if it did


If my suggestion becomes true, the visualiser could be done in-house on the speaker and sent as a video feed to the TV. But knowing Sonos, an audio visualiser isn't realistic haha.

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  • Prodigy I
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  • September 5, 2018
JackWright wrote:
The Sonos Beam doesn't just receive HDMI signals, but sends them out too. This is evident by the fact if you select your source to the HDMI ARC connection the Beam is using, you get pre-designed patterns being sent as video to your TV.

What if Sonos could update the speaker to display music covers, music videos, music details like; time, title, artist etc.?

Short and sweet, but I think that would be awesome.

If you have an Apple TV, download an app called "TunesMap".

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