Sound Bar Control Issue

[water101]

Hi

I am having a little issue here with a sound bar and K9 box. The sound bar is a sharp HT-SB600 which came with the TV as a package. I also have a zoomtak K9 box. The issue is that when I plug the K9 into the sound bar tower it works until I turn it off. When I turn off the K9 box and the TV which also turns off the sound bar, I run into a problem when I go to turn everything back on. It all works except the K9 box will not turn back on. I get power no problem just no signal or picture. I have to unplug the HDMI cable and power cable and then it will work again. The last android box I had hooked up the same way worked perfect every time. when I try the K9 box just on a TV it works perfect every time as well. So I am wondering if there is a setting I can change on the K9 box or a setting I need to change on the sound bar system.

The other odd item is that when I plug the K9 box in with the HDMI cable and no power cable attached to the box it still works, but if I try that on another TV it doesn't. By works I mean you get a picture and the box works as if the power cable is plugged in. I should note that all items are plugged into a monster 2160 joules surge protector.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated so I don't have to unplug the HDMI cable and plug it back in every time I want to watch TV

Thanks
Water

 

[water101]

I found a solution but its not the proper way. If I turn the sound bar system on first then the K8 box it will work, b ut that is the only way

 

[americanaudiophile]

You could try connecting the K9 to the TV directly. The TV will send the audio to the soundbar if it is connected to the HDMI-ARC input on the TV.
You could also try turning off CEC in the TV and soundbar if you have that option.

 

[water101]

You could try connecting the K9 to the TV directly. The TV will send the audio to the soundbar if it is connected to the HDMI-ARC input on the TV.
You could also try turning off CEC in the TV and soundbar if you have that option.

Plugging it into the TV and changing a few settings in the TV solved the problem. Thank you very much. No my next project which I will need to do a lot of research and get help with is to get rid of the sound bar all together and start using a set of Bose Companion 5 computer speakers I have. I have the digital to analogue and all the cables I need. I had it working on a TV before but I forgot how to do it. Both the TV and the K9 box have digital audio connections.

Thanks again for the help