Q: ATV4 with Soundbar pausing when TV turned off / on?
I have an ATV4 connected to a Samsung sound bar directly by HDMI. The soundbar is then connected to an LG TV via its HDMI out. I often use the ATV to play music with the TV off and it's always worked fine. Additionally I've often had the TV on, playing either Netflix or whatever then switched to music and then turned off the TV using the TV remote. Following a pause of a second or two the soundbar has then continued playing the music from the ATV4.
However since TVoS 10 update it seems to have gotten a bit screwed up. Now, if I'm listening to music and the TV is on, as soon as I turn off the TV with the TV remote the ATV pauses music play and I have to pick up the ATV remote and press either the pause / play button or the top clickpad? Same if I have the TV off and then turn the TV on again, it pauses whatever music is playing on the ATV. I have to then click the ATV remote again to start playing?
Nothing else has changed with my set up at all, except installing OS10. I noticed I also had to reconfigure my ATV remote volume control settings as ATV kept saying 'You have not configured volume control'. I also checked that 'Control TV' is turned off. As the ATV is connected direct to the sound bar I can't for the life of me figure why turning off the TV with the TV remote should pause music playback on the ATV??
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Posted on Sep 22, 2016 7:54 PM