TV-Box 5 connect to audio video receiver

    • Hello to the community

    I used the TV-Box 1 for several years without any problems. The AV receiver (Pioneer vsx-s520) was connected to the TV-Box using Toslink. For years everything went well. Now the TV-Box 1 is getting old and there are more and more crashes, freeze frames and repeated resets.

    It was a bit sobering to discover that the TV-Box 5 does not have a Toslink connection. After a lot of back and forth, I still bought the TV-Box. The connection between TV-Box 5 and AV receiver with HDMI should be possible. Unfortunately that doesn’t work for me. There is no sound. I tried all HDMI inputs on the AV receiver. Unfortunately no success. Now I have set up the Toslink connection between the AV receiver and the TV. It works, audio now goes through the AV receiver. Unfortunately I cannot control the volume with the TV box remote control. Now you need 2 remote controls. I don’t think that’s good at all because it’s cumbersome.

    Does the community have any tips on how I can connect the new TV-Box to the AV receiver?

    This topic has already been discussed here. I read the entries and tried the user suggestions. Unfortunately without success.

    Thank you for your suggestions.

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    • 11 years in the technology world are quite something, but if it works…

      My suggestion from experience would be:

      - Cabling: STB via HDMI to TV, from TV via HDMI ARC (out) to the system (STB IN).

      - Connect Swisscom remote control to the TV

      So you should be able to control the volume on the TV via the remote control.

      It is important that the Swisscom FB has a line of sight to the TV’s IR receiver…

      Greetings Stefan

    @Nehoprasch37

    If AV and TV have optical inputs/outputs, use an optical cable such as: b.

    [Oehlbach HYPER PROFI OPTO (2 m, upper class, optical) - digitec](https://www.digitec.ch/de/s1/product/oehlbach-hyper-profi-opto-2-m-oberklasse-optisch-audio -cable-200418)

    First-class opto-digital audio connection ready-made with two metal Toslink plugs. The innovative construction of the cable with ultra-fast optical fibers achieves maximum luminosity and enables a data transfer rate of 75 Mbps (megabits/second). The standard for the transmission of multi-channel sound formats via optical Toslink interfaces only requires a transmission rate of 12.8 Mbps!

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    @Black Mamba I’m sorry but 55 Fr. for a Toslink cable 😂

    It’s a digital signal, either it works or it doesn’t. And with such a short distance, exactly any 10 Fr. cheap part works

    Expensive cables only make digital signals over very long distances, but with Toslink it’s an optical signal anyway, so it doesn’t matter even over long distances

    Regarding the problem of @Nehoprasch37; also try it via HDMI-ARC, so make sure that the receiver is connected to the ARC port of the TV and the ARC is active on the TV and receiver

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    @Nehoprasch37

    The standard wiring is:

    TV-Box -> HDMI cable -> TV set -> HDMI/ARC (audio return output of the TV set) -> HDMI cable -> HDMI input receiver

    and then test all audio formats under the TV-Box options.

    And then there really isn’t any sound for any option?

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    Hobby-Nerd ohne wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeiten zur Swisscom

    @NilsL

    In terms of prestige, Oehlbach is actually the Maybach of cables.

    So you should only buy it if you want the car but can’t afford it (yet). 🙂

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    Hobby-Nerd ohne wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeiten zur Swisscom

    Hello

    Thank you for your tips. I’ve tried all “variants”. Unfortunately I can’t get the tone control on the TV-Box 5 remote control. Is it possible that the Yamaha vsx-500 AV receiver (in use for 11 years) is simply outdated? Whether it’s incompetence on my part or the AVR is simply getting old, I’ll look into purchasing a new one. For reasons of space, only an AVR Slim is possible.

    Thanks again for the tips.

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    5 months later

    11 years in the technology world are quite something, but if it works…

    My suggestion from experience would be:

    - Cabling: STB via HDMI to TV, from TV via HDMI ARC (out) to the system (STB IN).

    - Connect Swisscom remote control to the TV

    So you should be able to control the volume on the TV via the remote control.

    It is important that the Swisscom FB has a line of sight to the TV’s IR receiver…

    Greetings Stefan

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    Ich bin ein als Privatkunde getarnter Swisscom-Mitarbeiter im Bereich Service Continuity.

    We tested the Lindy with us and it worked perfectly. Of course not on all possible TV sets, i.e. I cannot rule out the possibility that problems may arise with individual setups.

    Without Lindy do you have picture and sound on the TV?

    The cabling is relatively simple: TV-Box <> Lindy HDMI IN <> Lindy HDMI Out <> TV set (and then audio via Toslink or Cinch)

    Have you also tested different HDMI ports on the TV?

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    @Freipriestatt36

    The module below worked for some users on the TV-Box 5.

    [https://www.apfelkiste.ch/hdmi-audio-kovnerter-adapter-auf-4k-hdmi-spdif-toslink-3-5mm-klinke.html](https://www.apfelkiste.ch/hdmi- audio-kovnerter-adapter-to-4k-hdmi-spdif-toslink-3-5mm-jack.html)

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      4 months later

      WalterB

      I have connected the new TV Box 5. It doesn’t have an optical out like the TV Box 2.

      We have the following:

      Sony TV

      Bose Lifestyle48

      Swisscom TV Box 5

      I would like the following.

      Use only one URC for TV and Swisscom.

      Currently, in the TV settings, if the external A/V receiver (TV box) is to be linked to the Sony remote control, the provider Swisscom is recognised but not the TV box 5.

      Secondly, the TV Box 5 should be connected to the Bose on the SAT/CBL with HDMI. When this is done, we have no audio only video. TV box -> Bose -> TV. Must connect TV box -> TV.

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          POGO 1104 The Bose Lifestyle48, which is actually no longer brand new, doesn’t seem to have HDMI 🙁

          @Gruplenauld43 there are a few possibilities:

          • Universal remote only works via the Swisscom Remote, as the Swisscom box uses Bluetooth, not IR.
            Infrared universal remote controls are therefore out of the question.
            However, the SC remote control is relatively clever (can switch source, control volume via infrared on TV etc…).
            You would then have to pair the remote control with the TV
          • The stereo system should then switch on when the TV switches on. This can be done either automatically (don’t know the BOSE) or via a master-slave socket, which switches on the Bose as soon as the TV switches on
          • From the Sony TV you would have to use the optical output to the optical input of the BOSE.
            Lipsync problems may occur (shifting of sound and picture)

          It’s a bit of work, but should work.

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          Ich bin ein als Privatkunde getarnter Swisscom-Mitarbeiter im Bereich Service Continuity.

              POGO 1104 there are apparently I, III and IV versions of the LS48 - no idea if they all do the same thing.

              In any case, I couldn’t find any HDMI on the connection pictures of the LS48, only on a kind of additional box, but I couldn’t say how it should be connected to the “main box” again… The VS2 you mentioned is a “video amplifier” - whatever that is supposed to be again 🙂

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              Ich bin ein als Privatkunde getarnter Swisscom-Mitarbeiter im Bereich Service Continuity.