ONN Soundbar 32 Voice Announcement
This sound bar does only announce the sound bar status. The voice is connected to the sound bar and would say the same thing regardless of that the sound bar was connected to.
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You’re not wrong. The sound bar is stand alone. You can have it connected to an older, non-smart tv (like mine) and nothing else. The sound bar AND THE SOUND BAR ALONE announces that it is on, what it is connected to (HDMI), as well as the mode it is in, and tells you when you power it off.
does anyone know how to make it NOT do that?! It’s driving me nuts!The issue is, when googling it, it brings up the link to this insane thread!
Are you talking about settings on the soundbar ?
Yes, use the Soundbar remote, have the tv set to hdmi input the Soundbar is connected to, and use their directions to go into the soundbar settings.
I’m not finding anything in the instructions (product guide) that was provided.
With a non-roku tv - how does this work
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It’s not a screen reader issue, if you’re going to be useless then log off.
That’s definitely a work around but it doesn’t actually solve the power on/off announcement issue. What this does is prevent the soundbar from turning off with the TV, thus avoiding the announcement, however instead we get a blinking status light on the soundbar and an energy vampire when we’re not using it.
Same issue here. Man are there a lot of wasted humans in this thread. Literally no one here trying to offer a solution has any idea what they’re talking about.
I have a Hisense 65” Roku TV from Walmart. Via HDMI e-arc it’s connected to an Onn Roku-ready soundbar (blue box) also from Walmart.
TCL soundbars do the same thing so it’s starting to look less and less like a soundbar issue… but just an observation.
Screen Reader is disabled in the Roku system settings.
When I turn the soundbar on (either with my Roku remote or it’s remote) it’s says very loudly, ‘Power On, HDMI’, and ‘Power Off’ when I turn it off.Again, not a screen reader. Nothing else is narrated.
CEC setting for other devices is also disabled so when I turn off the TV the soundbar stays on. This is a nice workaround however what I get in exchange is a blinking status light on the soundbar when the TV is off, and it’s technically still on and wasting energy (which I pay for). Not an actual solution.
Further comedy includes literally using my soundbar and then clicking the soundbar icon from the Roku Home Screen and the TV displays ‘No Signal’, are you sure it’s connected? LMFAO what a joke.
So I take it nobody figured out how to disable this feature on the onn sound bar? It’s so loud and annoying. And before anyone else comments, it’s the sound bar feature. I’m very aware it’s not the Roku or tv. Bout to toss this sound bar in the pool
Someone posted in another thread:
settings >control other devices>standby and uncheck to turn that feature off
