Would it be possible to add a Sonos action to enable/disable Playbar Autoplay?
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Originally posted by baudi View PostWould it be possible to add a Sonos action to enable/disable Playbar Autoplay?
Dirk
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I have the playbar connected to my TV, and my TV connected to my HTPC computer.
Suppose autoplay is on, and suppose I am listening to a radio station on Sonos. If I open certain websites (such as the Washington Post) in Chrome, even if there is no audio playing from the website, there's apparently some signal sent to the playbar that causes it to stop playing the radio station and switch to the website sound (which is silent). It's like the website signals that it may be sending audio soon, even if it's not sending it now.
Now suppose Autoplay is off in the scenario above. Everything works fine. I can go to a website and the playbar ignores the signal. There's just one problem: If I stop listening to the radio and switch the Playbar to take its input from the TV signal, and then nothing plays on the TV for 10 minutes or so, the playbar apparently times out and will not play the TV audio until I tell it to take its signal from the TV again.
So what I'd like to be able to do is turn autoplay on when I switch the playbar to take its input from the TV, and switch it off when I want to listen to Sonos music or radio.
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Originally posted by baudi View PostI have the playbar connected to my TV, and my TV connected to my HTPC computer.
Suppose autoplay is on, and suppose I am listening to a radio station on Sonos. If I open certain websites (such as the Washington Post) in Chrome, even if there is no audio playing from the website, there's apparently some signal sent to the playbar that causes it to stop playing the radio station and switch to the website sound (which is silent). It's like the website signals that it may be sending audio soon, even if it's not sending it now.
Now suppose Autoplay is off in the scenario above. Everything works fine. I can go to a website and the playbar ignores the signal. There's just one problem: If I stop listening to the radio and switch the Playbar to take its input from the TV signal, and then nothing plays on the TV for 10 minutes or so, the playbar apparently times out and will not play the TV audio until I tell it to take its signal from the TV again.
So what I'd like to be able to do is turn autoplay on when I switch the playbar to take its input from the TV, and switch it off when I want to listen to Sonos music or radio.
You can also turn autoplay off all together and run an action to change the playbar to "TV" which would have the same effect. Alternatively, if you mute the TV when you are using chrome does that still causes the playbar to switch?
I had a quick look at what is available on the UPNP interface, and I don't immediately see the option to do just what you ask
Dirk
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Originally posted by dcorsus View Post(1) You can also turn autoplay off all together and run an action to change the playbar to "TV" which would have the same effect.
(2) Alternatively, if you mute the TV when you are using chrome does that still causes the playbar to switch?Dirk
(2) Assuming you mean muting the audio using the Windows Volume Mixer, that almost works, but the mute is cancelled as soon as you change the system volume.
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Originally posted by baudi View Post(1) That's the scenario I outlined in the second paragraph above. It doesn't work well because switching the playbar to TV only lasts for a few minutes if nothing is playing. After a few minutes of no audio, it times out and you have to switch it to TV again when you want to play tv audio again.
Originally posted by baudi View Post(2) Assuming you mean muting the audio using the Windows Volume Mixer, that almost works, but the mute is cancelled as soon as you change the system volume.
If you are playing say a radiostation on the playbar, the problem appears any noise coming from your PC switches the playbar input to "TV" and your music is gone, hope I still get it right?
You say mute on the PC would work but any changing of volume would undo that, so why would you change the volume in the first place if you do not want it to come out of the TV->Playbar? Is this maybe some dual output arrangement where you pipe sound to TV AND some other speakers? If so, maybe that's were all the trouble start and we could talk about solving that.
Where I'm going with this is that in any scenario, you must have some logic in mind how you set/unset things. Something like, I click on this and I trigger an event which has action x, y, z to do something. So you would need some "on" event and some "off" event. How do you see that?
If you had in mind that "on" represented turning autoplay on and "off" would turn it off, how were you planning on triggering these event? Automated (meaning triggered on something else) or manually (you navigate to the HS pages and click on buttons). So let's set aside how we trigger, say we define On and Off as some other events, it could be a combination of switching the playbar to say TV and depending on the TV we could send a mute to the TV ...... or some variation of the above. If the TV is DLNA/UPNP enabled, my mediacontroller PI would be capable of setting mute on/off, or perhaps automatically switch inputs etc. Which model TV is this?
Hope this helps, glad to brainstorm and provide some alternative pointers to get you where you want to be
Dirk
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TLDR: I have a complicated and unusual setup that's an extreme edge use case. Probably not worth accommodating it.
Originally posted by dcorsus View PostI did not know this. So if autoplay is off and you select TV, after a number of minutes of no input it switches to something else?
Originally posted by dcorsus View PostDon't take my response as being argumentative, hope it read I'm trying to help
Originally posted by dcorsus View PostIf you are playing say a radiostation on the playbar, the problem appears any noise coming from your PC switches the playbar input to "TV" and your music is gone, hope I still get it right?
Originally posted by dcorsus View PostYou say mute on the PC would work but any changing of volume would undo that, so why would you change the volume in the first place if you do not want it to come out of the TV->Playbar?
Originally posted by dcorsus View PostWhere I'm going with this is that in any scenario, you must have some logic in mind how you set/unset things. Something like, I click on this and I trigger an event which has action x, y, z to do something. So you would need some "on" event and some "off" event. How do you see that?
Originally posted by dcorsus View PostSo let's set aside how we trigger, say we define On and Off as some other events, it could be a combination of switching the playbar to say TV and depending on the TV we could send a mute to the TV ...... or some variation of the above. If the TV is DLNA/UPNP enabled, my mediacontroller PI would be capable of setting mute on/off, or perhaps automatically switch inputs etc. Which model TV is this?
Originally posted by dcorsus View PostHope this helps, glad to brainstorm and provide some alternative pointers to get you where you want to be
Dirk
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Originally posted by baudi View Post
Muting my TV wouldn't really help, because I have to split the HDMI signal before it gets to the TV so that I can extract 5.1 audio for input to the playbar.
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Is this a playbar with optical interface or a beam with HDMI?
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Originally posted by dcorsus View Post
Your tv is the only one connected physically to the playbar so wouldn’t muting your tv prevent the playbar from switching away from your music? I suppose your pc is connected to the Tv by hdmi so if you mute the tv it mutes wathever comes from your PC, no?
Is this a playbar with optical interface or a beam with HDMI?
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Originally posted by baudi View PostThis recurring event appears to be a workaround for the problem.
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