Darko Ibrahimpasic1

Q: No Volume Control on new Apple TV

Just bought a new Apple TV, but one thing is realllllllyyy bothering me. I noticed i can't control the volume of it via, apple remote that comes with the product or via Remote app for my iphone and ipad... Really *****.... I have to use my TV remote for that. Am I missing something here or did they take that feature out, cause I was able to on my old apple tv. Also If i stream music to it from my mac i can't stop the music using regular remote.. Just pain in the butt and inconsistencies...

Anyone ?

15' 2.5 MacBook Pro & 20' 2.4 iMac, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Oct 1, 2010 6:33 PM

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  • by jlaake,

    jlaake jlaake Feb 24, 2013 10:35 AM in response to Darko Ibrahimpasic1
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    Feb 24, 2013 10:35 AM in response to Darko Ibrahimpasic1

    My only problem is that when I stream audio from Apple TV to Airport Express the signal is very weak. I have my AE hooked up to my stereo amplifier and this works great when streaming from my iMac. If, however I want sound in a movie playbacked on my stereo set by streaming audio from Apple TV I have to turn my amplifier to maximum to get any audible output.

  • by asimpleman,

    asimpleman asimpleman Mar 18, 2013 8:09 PM in response to jlaake
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    Mar 18, 2013 8:09 PM in response to jlaake

    Hit "up" two times to bring up "movie menu", then hold down "select", then navigate up and over to "speakers" tab, then down to your "AirPlay speakers", then move slider to right to increase volume :) DONE!! (Be sure to lower volume on your stereo first ;)

  • by IamsomeChris,

    IamsomeChris IamsomeChris Apr 18, 2013 12:41 PM in response to Darko Ibrahimpasic1
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    Apr 18, 2013 12:41 PM in response to Darko Ibrahimpasic1

    I have never expected such a poor product! I just bought the Apple TV3 and it is most probably going back ...

    First the volume controll - This thing waked up the whole neighbourship simply because there is no volume controll build in - exept for the pause button ...

    So i cannot adjust the apple tv volume to all the other devices i am using in the house. It is far to loud - if i switch from normal tv, Blue-Ray or other devices to Apple Tv - big annoyance!

    What i am also missing is an Adio out - i surely dont want to listen to my music using a TV-Set. The whole optical out is a trade off.

    The next thing is the home sharing ...

    I can only choose a flat hierachy of folders - this is also really bad ... No wonder people are jailbraking and tweaking a good hardware because of the bad firmware.

  • by vazandrew,

    vazandrew vazandrew Apr 18, 2013 2:15 PM in response to IamsomeChris
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    Apr 18, 2013 2:15 PM in response to IamsomeChris

    No other connected device has volume control built in.  You can send audio to other speakers via settings. Home-sharing is meant to work with iTunes.

  • by IamsomeChris,

    IamsomeChris IamsomeChris Apr 18, 2013 2:26 PM in response to vazandrew
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    Apr 18, 2013 2:26 PM in response to vazandrew

    my cable box has volume controll - forinstance and all the other devices don't come so loud. So if you google this issue you'll find quite a lot of people have expierienced similar. I agree - home-sharing is meant to work with itunes - still I have 14000 photos and movies and with what homesharing in itues offers me I can't really say it works.

  • by vazandrew,

    vazandrew vazandrew Apr 18, 2013 2:40 PM in response to IamsomeChris
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    Apr 18, 2013 2:40 PM in response to IamsomeChris

    This is not a cale box, and it is the TV that regulates the volume. DVD players, BLU Ray, consoles etc. do not have volume control so not sure where the expectation is coming from. one can control volume when airplaying or home sharing via the remote app. I can't say I have ever had an issue with it being louder than other devices. If you are having an issue with home-sharing I would create a separate thread so it can be addressed properly.

  • by Drew Gilmore,

    Drew Gilmore Drew Gilmore May 20, 2013 8:44 PM in response to Darko Ibrahimpasic1
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    May 20, 2013 8:44 PM in response to Darko Ibrahimpasic1

    The Apple TV does have a volume control, it's just buried in settings and not too easy to get to. Personally I need a volume control because I stream the audio to an Airport Express connected to speakers which don't have a remote control.

     

    For what it's worth (and sorry if it's already been mentioned, I haven't looked through all nine pages), but I've just discovered that an Apple Bluetooth Keyboard paired with the Apple TV can control the volume.

  • by vazandrew,

    vazandrew vazandrew May 21, 2013 3:27 PM in response to Drew Gilmore
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    May 21, 2013 3:27 PM in response to Drew Gilmore

    There is no direct volume control. It is the audio source that controls the volume.

  • by Drew Gilmore,

    Drew Gilmore Drew Gilmore May 21, 2013 3:45 PM in response to vazandrew
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    May 21, 2013 3:45 PM in response to vazandrew

    Well, the Apple TV is an audio source, and I have demonstrated two (2) ways in which the Apple TV's volume can be adjusted all by itself. Unless you know of some other mechanism whereby I push the little volume control on my bluetooth keyboard and things mysteriously get quieter.

  • by vazandrew,

    vazandrew vazandrew May 21, 2013 4:06 PM in response to Drew Gilmore
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    May 21, 2013 4:06 PM in response to Drew Gilmore

    No it's not, it's connected to the Tv or to an external speaker, which is the audio source.

  • by Drew Gilmore,

    Drew Gilmore Drew Gilmore May 21, 2013 4:58 PM in response to vazandrew
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    May 21, 2013 4:58 PM in response to vazandrew

    Fine, whatever. Semantics. It makes noise signally stuff and its volume can be controlled without the help of another device.

     

    Back'n my day, a 'source' was this place where stuff originated.

  • by vazandrew,

    vazandrew vazandrew May 21, 2013 5:07 PM in response to Drew Gilmore
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    May 21, 2013 5:07 PM in response to Drew Gilmore

    There is no internal audio capability. You are using airplay to stream the audio to your speakers, and you are controlling the speaker (not the ATV) which can also be done via remote app and was already stated.

     

    As far as the setting on the device itself, please be specifc.

  • by Drew Gilmore,

    Drew Gilmore Drew Gilmore May 21, 2013 6:45 PM in response to vazandrew
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    May 21, 2013 6:45 PM in response to vazandrew

    Push the option button while playing or paused on a video. From there I can control the volume of the audio stream. There's in fact a little blue level bar right there on the screen which goes left and right with the volume setting*. Maybe that just controlls the level streamed to Airport devices. It's just annoying that you have to pause to get to that option.

     

    But it is not controlling the speaker. The speaker is a JBL Creature plugged into the Airport Express. The speakers have neither wifi nor bluetooth. So I'm curious how you think my bluetooth keyboard is not adjusting the audio levels streamed by the Apple TV.

     

    Maybe it's telling the Apple TV to tell the Airport Express to change the volume...

     

     

    * (Full disclosure, at the moment the remote app isn't actually moving the little blue level bar for me. It did the other day, and the bar certainly moves when I use the keyboard)

  • by Drew Gilmore,

    Drew Gilmore Drew Gilmore May 21, 2013 6:55 PM in response to Drew Gilmore
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    May 21, 2013 6:55 PM in response to Drew Gilmore

    /Maybe it's telling the Apple TV to tell the Airport Express to change the volume.../

     

    Well, heck, maybe that IS what it's doing. Using my video projector's internal speakers, receiving audio through HDMI, the bluetooth keyboard doesn't in fact do anything.

     

    Huh. Apple is strange sometimes.

     

    So I stand corrected, sort of. But again, for what it's worth, for those streaming to airport express, there is a volume control of sorts, in that it raises and lowers volume.

  • by vazandrew,

    vazandrew vazandrew May 21, 2013 7:41 PM in response to Drew Gilmore
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    May 21, 2013 7:41 PM in response to Drew Gilmore

    The airport express is using airplay and the speakers are connected to it, the remote app picks up the speakers and is then controlling the speaker volume. The Bluetooth keyboard's volume buttons will have no effect on Apple TV directly

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5633

     

    Volume control via airplay had already been addressed

     

    The thread had to do with having direct volume control, which isn't possible (and what you were trying to contest).

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