New Owners With AV Question

[Afchad]

New GD owners of an Imagine XLS 23BHE. Quite the upgrade from our Jayco! Can’t wait to take it out! Did have a question about an HDMI cable running to the ceiling from the TV. The tech guy at dealership didn’t know…. Anyone know? I was hoping it would connect the TV to the radio receiver to tie into the speakers but the tech guy didn’t think so.

[howson]

New GD owners of an Imagine XLS 23BHE. Quite the upgrade from our Jayco! Can’t wait to take it out! Did have a question about an HDMI cable running to the ceiling from the TV. The tech guy at dealership didn’t know…. Anyone know? I was hoping it would connect the TV to the radio receiver to tie into the speakers but the tech guy didn’t think so.

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With the location of the radio and the TV I think your guess is correct. The HDMI cable runs from the back of the radio to the TV.

Anticipating the next question...I am not sure which combination of buttons will make it work. (Sorry!)



Howard

[DarnDave]

Afchad , you shouldn't need to do anything on the tv. On the radio, select hdmi as your input source. If no go, go to the tv menu, audio, and make sure the external source sound output is enabled.

[Afchad]

Awesome! Thank you both so much! I will try connecting through the radio and tv options tomorrow.

[Afchad]

Unfortunately it seems irregardless of our settings, it won’t push the sound to the receiver. Guess I’ll have to get a sound bar like the sales tech suggested or an HDMI transmitter/receiver.

[Jlawles2]

Afchad Check the HDMI connection in the TV to see if it is in an ARC port. If not, you may need to swap ports. Also check the receiver to ensure that there is not more than one HDMI port.

One other thing is to check the TV settings. Some require a change of setting so it will push the signal back out through eh HDMI cable on an ARC port.

[DarnDave]

Afchad , just thought of something. We are all assuming that cable is actually hooked up to your audio. Maybe it isn't. Not knowing what your audio unit is. Does it have the capability to play a dvd? On our solitude, the audio signal from the tv came out of the optical port of the TV, and used an adapter to convert to RCA (red and white) cables. There were zero hdmi cables supplied by GD, and no video player. Most audio head units found in RV applications (think marine also) do not use hdmi for an audio input. If they have an hdmi port, it is usually an output.

[timh0042]

I was researching the same topic a little while ago… I think the HDMI cable goes from the radio unit as a one way to the TV. The intent is to use the radio unit as a pass-through to play audio over the speakers and video to the TV. For example to plug a DVD player into the radio. I don’t think the radio unit supports ARC.

[Jimmer]

It's my understanding that it depends on what model receiver you have. I have a Reflection with a Jensen head unit and my TCL TV connects with it via the ARC protocol using the HDMI cable. I can play a DVD using the Jensen over the TV and have the sound come out the speakers. I can stream Netflix using the ROKU built into the TV and play the sound over the Jensen/RV speakers. I believe if you have an HDMI interface on your Jensen head unit, you can do what I can do. However, read that some Imagine's have a lower capability head unit without an HDMI port, and therefore are very limited.

[Guest]

This will work and will even play standard DVDs but no BlueRays.

Jim

[Jlawles2]

Our Jensen will play the TV though it. Simply select the Aux button and press 3X. The cycle is Aux1, Aux2, then ARC. On ARC the TV sends a signal to the radio. The TV and radio must be connected on both ends through the ARC HDMI port.