adam333 Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 In my Mancave If i have the TV on and several minutes later try to play music on the in ceiling speakers, the TV will turn off. How do i stop this from happening? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baubas Cat Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 You can only do one thing at a time in a room (listen to something or watch something). If the TV and the in ceiling speakers are assigned to the same room you can create a new room to assign one of them to and then you can use both at the same time but you will have to switch between the rooms to control both. At least that is what I do. Maybe there is a better way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo1738 Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 Can't you set the TV to mute and stay on but then have music over speakers. Or have TV sound through TV and music through speakers without different rooms? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 No Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 Quote . You can only do one thing at a time in a room (listen to something or watch something). Hmm that's not quite correct HOW the system reacts depends a lot on how tings are wired and setup.In the most classical sense, a separate video switch and audio switch, sound always comes through the speakers, you can in fact turn on the tv, then select a listen source and things will stay on. No programming required. However, with the way things are now, there are a LOT of ways to get audio and video. If there is a path through the TV to get audio for example (simple version, you send HDMI to the TV for all video, then send audio out from the TV back down to an amplifier so you can also use the SMart TV functions) this gets messed up , and the system will automatically shut that path down (ie turn of the TV) upon selecting a listen source. Similar things happen when using combined audio/video switches. And if you use TV speakers (or a connected soundbar), then yes, the system will always shut off the TV, because it is now the audio endpoint in use - your endpoint changes so the 'other' endpoint gets shut off. There are many more scenarios where a TV would be shut off (or in some cases, the TV isn't but a video switch or switch port or scaler.......gets turned off resulting in no screen) But in short, no - the way to make that happen is to have separate rooms. There are certainly methods you can cook up to do it without it, but every last one of them I've seen just isn't 100% reliable, or messes something else up down the road. In the end, while two rooms isn't ideal - it's the most frustration free way of going about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo1738 Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 I would have thought with a audio separating video matrix and C4 24 channel audio mixer you could easily play music on the mixer and let the TV audio go through the balun to the TV without having them be "separate rooms" but I can also see that just joining two rooms isn't that hard to do the same. Problem is no one wants the room list clutter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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