Quotidian
Novice Member
I have a Hisense 43" TV and am generally very happy with it. But I've bought the Hisense HS215 Soundbar, and am having few issues with configuration.
My setup is simple - TV, AppleTV 4 and Soundbar. The Apple TV is connected to the 4K HDMI port, and the Soundbar to HDMI1. (They do all work off the TV remote, although the AppleTV will sometimes not show any screen image unless you also give it a poke with its own remote.)
I have set the HDMI-CEC config panel for the HS215 to 'Auto-start', and when I power the TV up, the Soundbar powers up.
HOWEVER, the sound control panel on the TV doesn't always connect to the ARC output on start up.
What happens is, the TV starts OK but the volume controls don't work, although the sound appears to be coming from the Soundbar at a constant volume.
So you then have to go to Settings>Sound>Speakers and toggle between TV Speaker and SPDIF. When SPDIF is selected, there's no sound, of course, but when you toggle back to TV Speaker, the sound will start coming from the TV Speaker, and only then will the volume controls will work.
But if you want to connect the Soundbar, you then have to go to Settings>System>HDMI-CEC, scroll down to HS215 and click on it.
This all vastly annoys my wife, who says, 'why doesn't it all just work?' Which is fair question!
My setup is simple - TV, AppleTV 4 and Soundbar. The Apple TV is connected to the 4K HDMI port, and the Soundbar to HDMI1. (They do all work off the TV remote, although the AppleTV will sometimes not show any screen image unless you also give it a poke with its own remote.)
I have set the HDMI-CEC config panel for the HS215 to 'Auto-start', and when I power the TV up, the Soundbar powers up.
HOWEVER, the sound control panel on the TV doesn't always connect to the ARC output on start up.
What happens is, the TV starts OK but the volume controls don't work, although the sound appears to be coming from the Soundbar at a constant volume.
So you then have to go to Settings>Sound>Speakers and toggle between TV Speaker and SPDIF. When SPDIF is selected, there's no sound, of course, but when you toggle back to TV Speaker, the sound will start coming from the TV Speaker, and only then will the volume controls will work.
But if you want to connect the Soundbar, you then have to go to Settings>System>HDMI-CEC, scroll down to HS215 and click on it.
This all vastly annoys my wife, who says, 'why doesn't it all just work?' Which is fair question!
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