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HDMI control of devices not working
As title says the HDMI control of devices not working all the way right.
I just want to get to 1 button turn on if possible??
Optik remote turns off all 3 units off with press of power button as it should (Samsung TV, Optik box, Yamaha RD-X585 amp)
But from everything being off will only turn on TV and optik box, Yamaha amp stays off.
HDMI hook up is optik box into amp (regular HDMI #2 in)
Amp hdmi ARC-CEC out to tv HDMI arc-CEC in.
I have all settings on amp and TV for hdmi arc-cec set to on.
Talked to Yamaha customer serv and went through all the stuff on their end and all is set right and is confirmed by both optik remote and tv remote controling amp volume levels so seems like all are speaking through HDMI cables.
But again from everything being off will only turn on TV and optik box, Yamaha amp stays off.
Anybody have this problem with Yamaha, Samsung, Optik combo??
Thx in advance for any help,
Darren
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Hi Fuzz, if your ok with me addressing you with that??...
Yes it's a rx-v585 amp
I've been playing around a bit with it and seems like the problem is that the tv won't hold the speaker setting on HDMI when powered off but instead switches back to TV speakers and won't send the signal to the amp to power up.
If I turn on the TV the amp doesn't turn on. If I go look at the sound setting the TV is on "TV speakers". If I use tv remote to switch TV to be on HDMI the amp is powered up without touching amp remote. I believe that is what is supposed to happen in the HDMI magical world, right??
Found out about this surfing/questioning google and saw a post that someone got samsung to send a firmware adjustment to them to install via USB stick. Of course when I phones cust serv the guy had no idea what I was talking about and blamed the Optik box and the amp any my slippers i was wearing and I think the dog might of had soething to do with it also....
- FuzzyLogic
Community Power User
PS You can check the Samsung support site to see if there are any updates for your TV. Mine was up to date.
- FuzzyLogic
Good luck. I gave up with this and went back to using my Logitech Remote as the TV gave me too much grief. I had no issues with my previous Sony TV.
- FuzzyLogic
I have recently gotten a new Samsung TV and have a Yamaha RX-V485. I suspect yours is actually the RX-V585? In any case I've tried various scenarios but was unable to effectively get things working without resorting to my Logitech Harmony to control everything.
I suspect I MIGHT have been able to get things working as expected if all my devices were plugged into the TV. It seems to want to be the 'master' and caused problems for me. Unfortunately I can't do this as I have more devices than ports on either my receiver or TV.
If you do in fact have the RX-V585 I would suggest looking at page 141 of the manual:
Also check out the manual for your Samsung TV as there is a lot of info on CEC/Anynet+
The Samsung seems to be finicky and I had to resort to unplugging it to reset the CEC settings on more than one occasision when I was playing with this. In my research there are more than a few posts with people having problems with CEC and their Samsung TV's:-(
