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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16/05/2016 12:04, Simon Hobson
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<pre wrap="">Yes indeed, you've bought an HDMI switch which "doesn't work" (for at least one definition of "work").
I'd be inclined to contact the manufacturer (or perhaps the vendor) first and complain that it a) "doesn't work" (as in turns off when it shouldn't) and b) "doesn't work" (as in "the sound isn't synced - don't tell them that you can adjust for it !). The latter makes the product "not fit for purpose" IMO.
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Thanks Simon for all your replies so far.<br>
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I could contact the manufacturer, and indeed have done so already to
ask whether the auto-sleep could be disabled, and the lack of
discrete remote commands, but have just been told that such things
will be considered for future products, so no help there. The sound
synchronisation thing I need to do a few more experiments, with
different sources, before deciding what to do about that. Certainly
when I plugged my Roku into one of the other HDMI inputs, I didn't
notice so much of a problem.<br>
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But I keep coming back to the fact that I feel like this can be
solved, in software, in Myth or Linux itself, given that other
sources inputting to the soundbar don't trigger the problem. My
hacker mentality would rather solve it that way than have to deal
with the manufacturer or change any hardware.<br>
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I don't know whether the soundbar notices silence by "listening" for
actual silence, or just because it is getting no audio bitstream. If
the latter, then sending a load of zero bytes (or whatever is the
equivalent for silence) should presumably work, but I haven't tried
this yet.<br>
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John<br>
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John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T</pre>
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