Anyone with a soundbar via optical?

[brianb]

Currently my sky remote controls the volume on my lg tv, would that still apply when using the optical out to a soundbar?

I really could do with improving the sound but I hate the idea of multiple remotes

[Rosscow]

It works like that on my Dad's Sonos Playbar.

[MrOrange]

And my Sony one.

[Gaspode]

Yep, I've got a Samsung telly and a Yamaha soundbar, and we have set the volume on the Sky remote to operate the soundbar volume instead of the telly.

We've also set the TV power button to operate both telly and soundbar so we don't need the soundbar remote at all. Only problem is that if you're not careful about aiming, you can end up switching telly on and soundbar off or vice versa.

[sw67]

My lg soundbar changes with the tv volume via optical with sky or tv remote

[993AL]

I followed the instructions below to enable the Sonos playbar to work with the LG magic remote, it worked fine.

1) Go to the LG "Universal Control" and add a Philips (yes Philips) sound bar
2) Once done exit the setup and switch to your normal TV input
3) Bring up the LG on-screen remote by pressing the "123/QMenu" button
4) Choose the left/right arrows on top of the on-screen remote until a grey "S.Bar" button appears in the top row
5) Choose the "S.Bar" button which changes the on-screen remote to shrink, show a green "Phillips" button and more importantly the Vol+ and Vol- buttons
6) Launch the Sonos contoller, go into the remote control setup and choose "Replace Remote"
7) When the Sonos controller asks for the respective Vol+ / Vol- buttons use the ones off the on-screen remote from step 5
8) The mute button was not available on the on-screen remote so to complete the Sonos remote setup go back to step one and go through the same sound bar setup again which will give you the mute button on-screen as some of the button to test

Edited by 993AL on Wednesday 17th September 00:07