Optical switch for xbox one

sliyk · Nov 19, 2014

Hi everyone

I wanted to ask if anyone has got an optical switch working for he xbox one?

I bought the following one

Digital Toslink Optical Fiber Audio Male 1 to 2 Female Splitter Adapter HIFI DVD | eBay

because I want to connect my tv and my xbox one to the sound system [which has no hdmi in and only one optical input]

but the sound from the tv seems to be working fine however the sound from the xbox one doesnt seem to come through at all!

any help will be much appreciated thanks!

:)

KALEEF · Nov 19, 2014

Turtle Beach XP500 Help Please

3x optical cables, optical splitter or switch. One cable form ps3 to splitter/switch, one cable from 360 to splitter/switch and one cable from splitter/switch to headset reciever.

The blue tooth on the headset should have a button for switching which blue tooth device your paired to (e.g ps3 and mobile or ps3 and 360 blue tooth dongle). Press that for which console your using.

I have the px5's which is the same set up.

General Usage · Nov 19, 2014

Turtle Beach XP500 Help Please

to use the 5.1 for both xbox and ps3 you will need a optical switch...

www.amazon.co.uk/.../ref=sr_1_1

Zacabeb · Nov 22, 2014

My suspicion is that since it appears to be a simple optical splitter (just bouncing the light through a piece of plastic), it doesn't block out the signal from the tv but routes both it and the signal from the Xbox One through on top of one another.

If the signal from the Xbox One works when connected directly to the sound system, you can get a Toslink switch with a manual toggle for quite cheap. The downside is that you have to switch it manually between the Xbox One and tv.

Also make sure that your sound system supports Dolby Digital over the Toslink input. If it doesn't, there is no real benefit from routing the sound directly from the Xbox One over tapping it from the tv's optical output.

If you can specify the make and model of the tv and sound system it can help in figuring out the best solution.

Zacabeb

My suspicion is that since it appears to be a simple optical splitter (just bouncing the light through a piece of plastic), it doesn't block out the signal from the tv but routes both it and the signal from the Xbox One through on top of one another.

If the signal from the Xbox One works when connected directly to the sound system, you can get a Toslink switch with a manual toggle for quite cheap. The downside is that you have to switch it manually between the Xbox One and tv.

Also make sure that your sound system supports Dolby Digital over the Toslink input. If it doesn't, there is no real benefit from routing the sound directly from the Xbox One over tapping it from the tv's optical output.

If you can specify the make and model of the tv and sound system it can help in figuring out the best solution.

Skeeter Quill

OK buddy. You can set each of the Home theatre, Xbox and Set top box into separate HDMI's on the TV, then I'd suggest, if you STB has an optical out, to get an optical switch and connect both the Xbox one and STB into that then that will connect to the optical
in on the HTS.

Alternately, you can get a digital coax to optical converter and connect that from the digital out on the television to the optical in on the STB.

KALEEF

3x optical cables, optical splitter or switch. One cable form ps3 to splitter/switch, one cable from 360 to splitter/switch and one cable from splitter/switch to headset reciever.

The blue tooth on the headset should have a button for switching which blue tooth device your paired to (e.g ps3 and mobile or ps3 and 360 blue tooth dongle). Press that for which console your using.

I have the px5's which is the same set up.

bbarley

For me, my ideal setup would be hdmi from cable box to xbox to surround in. Then surround out to one of my hdmi in's on the tv. I suspect that I might have to run optical out from cable box to optical in surround. I'd rather not have to switch inputs
from hdmi one for xbox/cable to surround for blue ray.

General Usage

to use the 5.1 for both xbox and ps3 you will need a optical switch...

www.amazon.co.uk/.../ref=sr_1_1

Optical switch for xbox one