I have been trying to put a wrap up a project I started several weeks ago.....but have been pulling my hair out with these last few steps. I am trying to consolidate all our A/V equipment in our basement, where I have built-out our home theater, but still have all the content from the various equipment piped throughout the rest of the house. So ideally, I'd like to have the ability to put a bluray on in the basement, but be able to watch it on any tv in the house as one example. Here are the different endpoints I have in our home.
Basement - main home theater area with speakers, projector, etc. Projector accepts HDMI input.
Basement Bar Area - simple LCD tv mounted on wall; accepts HDMI input.
Main Level Living Room - simple plasma tv up here; accepts HDMI input.
Upstairs Office - simple LCD tv mounted on wall; accepts HDMI input.
Upstairs Kids Room - simple LCD tv mounted on wall; accepts HDMI input.
And here is the equipment I'm starting with:
AT&T Uverse Cable Box - HDMI Out to Receiver and Composite Out to Tivo
XBOX 360 - HDMI Out to Receiver
Sony Bluray Player - HDMI Out to Receiver
Tivo - Composite Out to Receiver
Pioneer VSX-1020 Receiver - HDMI Out to Monoprice Splitter
Monoprice Splitter - HDMI Out to all the various rooms
Everything ends up at the Pioneer VSX-1020 Receiver. And it should be relatively simple since everything starts out as a HDMI signal, with exception of the old Tivo. But the receiver is converting the composite signal from the Tivo into HDMI.
Now here is where I'm having trouble. I can use all of these sources just fine in our basement home theater, since the receiver decodes the audio signal and outputs to the various speakers. And the video shows up fine on the projector. And the video shows up fine on all the various displays throughout the hosue. But there is absolutely no audio on any of the displays!! And that's my problem. My big idea of having all this content piped throughout the house won't work if I can only "see" the content and not "hear" it.
All the displays have speakers....and if I pull the receiver from the chain and directly patch the AT&T Uverse Cable Box into the Monoprice Splitter, for instance, the video AND audio work just fine. So I've narrowed it down to the Pioneer Receiver not passing along an audio signal?? What am I doing wrong? is there a way to fix this? Different receiver? Different equipment? Any help is much, much appreciated. Had hoped to have all this working for Thanksgiving....but have been struggling tonight!!
-Ryan
Basement - main home theater area with speakers, projector, etc. Projector accepts HDMI input.
Basement Bar Area - simple LCD tv mounted on wall; accepts HDMI input.
Main Level Living Room - simple plasma tv up here; accepts HDMI input.
Upstairs Office - simple LCD tv mounted on wall; accepts HDMI input.
Upstairs Kids Room - simple LCD tv mounted on wall; accepts HDMI input.
And here is the equipment I'm starting with:
AT&T Uverse Cable Box - HDMI Out to Receiver and Composite Out to Tivo
XBOX 360 - HDMI Out to Receiver
Sony Bluray Player - HDMI Out to Receiver
Tivo - Composite Out to Receiver
Pioneer VSX-1020 Receiver - HDMI Out to Monoprice Splitter
Monoprice Splitter - HDMI Out to all the various rooms
Everything ends up at the Pioneer VSX-1020 Receiver. And it should be relatively simple since everything starts out as a HDMI signal, with exception of the old Tivo. But the receiver is converting the composite signal from the Tivo into HDMI.
Now here is where I'm having trouble. I can use all of these sources just fine in our basement home theater, since the receiver decodes the audio signal and outputs to the various speakers. And the video shows up fine on the projector. And the video shows up fine on all the various displays throughout the hosue. But there is absolutely no audio on any of the displays!! And that's my problem. My big idea of having all this content piped throughout the house won't work if I can only "see" the content and not "hear" it.
All the displays have speakers....and if I pull the receiver from the chain and directly patch the AT&T Uverse Cable Box into the Monoprice Splitter, for instance, the video AND audio work just fine. So I've narrowed it down to the Pioneer Receiver not passing along an audio signal?? What am I doing wrong? is there a way to fix this? Different receiver? Different equipment? Any help is much, much appreciated. Had hoped to have all this working for Thanksgiving....but have been struggling tonight!!
-Ryan
