Has anyone been able to program a TiVo remote to control the volume of this sound bar? I have tried the TiVo-suggested method but it doesn't work.
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No. We have only been able to use the factory remote. No success any other way.
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Apparently not. DirecTV rep could not get the sound bar to recognize the remote for whatever reason. Certainly would like to find a way to connect though as the sound bar is a nice improvement to the sound quality.
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I am not 100% sure, but at the very least, you should be able to manually program the remote to control a sound bar. All you would do is take the remote for the sound bar and use it to have the logitech remote "learn" commands. The Harmony software allows you to do that. However, logitech may have already allowed their remotes to control sound bars in which all you would have to do is tell the software the make and model of your sound bar.
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Could you please help me?I'd like to use it as a replacement for my controller but can't get it to work. I got it to control my TV volume only. ..help please!
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I have a slightly different Panasonic Plasma but I think the remotes are the same. I can control the volume with the TV remote. There are a couple of things that don't work. The dialog level feature of the soundbar can't be controlled and there is no sound level indicator bar on the TV. The volume goes up or down but there is no sound level display.
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The sound bar comes with a remote control that I use to control the volume and on / off operation. My comcast controller only changes the TV volume. I haven't tried to control it on the TV remote, which I use only to switch between various inputs (cable, DVD, DVD-R, Apple TV). I have been running the sound bar with the TV audio turned all the way down ... using both the TV and sound bar for audio created a little bit of an echo effect which I found annoying.
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I believe it depends on how you have it set up. You can route the TV sound out into the soundbar, so if your TV remote controls the volume of its audio out then yes. We have ours set to just use the TV as a monitor, and the sound signal comes from our TiVo/Xbox/Blue Ray player, etc., so we use the soundbar remote to control volume. Except the TiVo remote also works, so we usually use that since we usually just watch TiVo.
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Not a tech person, sorry I can't help you, but I do know that I love the remote and could use the volume control if I wanted to. We have the sound hooked up to surround sound.
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Justin, I can't really answer that since I do NOT have a Tivo hooked up. So far as I know there is only 1 HDMI cable connection on your TV and you have the Tivo hooked up to that. So you would need to hook up the sound bar with the auxilliary cables (red, white, or yellow tip cables) into the back of your cable box. This is how I connected my sound bar.
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If your Samsung TV is new, it most likely has ARC support on one of the HDMI inputs. Connected via HDMI ARC (with the TV internal speakers turned off) you should be able to control the volume with your TV remote. My TV (a Vizio) has ARC support and I initially connected the sound bar via HDMI ARC (cable goes from HDMI OUT on soundbar to HDMI ARC IN on TV) and the TV remote controlled the volume in this case. I have since switched to optical connection as I like the interconnectivity options and the way everything functions with my universal remote better with the sound bar connected this way. There is no guarantee it will work even if your TV does have ARC support as implementations from different manufacturers may vary slightly.
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Hi.You can adjust Playbar to work with your TV remote control. Use the settings at the Sonos App. It works perfect! And it is greater if you add a optical cable TV-PlayBar
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Yes, the TV remote can adjust the sound volume, ONLY if the soundbar is operating. The soundbar produces great audio, but this product is not very reliable. Mine worked very well for the first year, now getting sound from it takes a tremendous amount of time & patience and luck. The main issue appears, to me, to be a major conflict in the VieraLink software or hardware. Good Luck!
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I wish I could help but unfortunately I can't. I don't have direct tv I use time warner cable as my cable provider. I use one remote for my tv and the boston acoustic remote for the volume on my sound bar.
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If you have cable, the Soundbar needs to be hooked up to the server not the TV. Also, each time you turn on the TV and Soundbar you need to raise the volume on the remote. Hope this helps.
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I found out there's a menu on the sound bar with the remote to program the feed between the sound bar and the television, like if you use the fiber optic cord or hdmi cord, hope that helps.
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Check your TV to see if there is a setting for controlling the audio out. On mine it is under the Audio menu and is called Audio Out. Setting it to Variable does what you want.
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It does come with a small remote that works well. You can control bluetooth volume from your iPhone but it will not be linear through the range so its not very effective. Unless your TV remote is programmable, it will not control the volume of this unit. I used a Harmony universal remote where you can program the remote to change the soundbar volume when the volume buttons are pressed while the remaining buttons on the remote operate the tv/set-top box as needed. There are other 2.1 sound systems that recognize volume commands from most major TV brands (one such is the Onkyo LS3100), but this Panasonic does not have that feature.