Directly control volume (SPDIF)

[Borkjev]

Hi,

I recently switched from Ouya + Kodi APK with audio over HDMI to Cubox-i4pro with openelec and optical audio.

I noticed when first starting with the optical (SPDIF) wire when I changed the volume with my i7 Rii mini I was directly controlling the audio on my sound system (lg soundbar nb4530a).. This was exactly what I wanted.

1 day later however this functionality stopped working. I'm unsure if that was also the moment I updated to Openelec 5.0.2.
Anyone knows how to get this functionality back?

[the_brad]

Do you have the hdmi-connection set up, additionally? Optical interface is a one-way-connection, which will not receive any signal in return. Might be some other device, you still had connected at the time of first testing...

[Borkjev]

Do you have the hdmi-connection set up, additionally? Optical interface is a one-way-connection, which will not receive any signal in return. Might be some other device, you still had connected at the time of first testing...

Ah yes indeed that might have been it.
I had HDMI cable going like: Cubox -> soundbar -> tv
and additionally optical cable Cubox -> soundbar.

When I saw the audio was working ok over optical I made the HDMI connection directly from Cubox -> tv.

I will test tonight at home if this is indeed the solution to let the HDMI signal pass through the soundbar

[Borkjev]

Through HDMI this works indeed.

Issue solved.