@makaiguy wrote:
Sometime when I can get my wife off our TCL Roku TV, I'll have to experiment and see what icons I get -- I don't recall ever seeing one with headphones, but then I don't use that tv much, and almost never with private audio.
My opportunity came sooner than I expected. When using the Roku app on the phone and turning on Private Listening, I do get the earphone icon on the tv screen.
But Private Listening is only in effect when the tv is set to either display over-the-air broadcasts from the antenna input, or when streaming via the Roku capabilities. The phone app notifies me of this when I turn on Private Listening -- I guess I never bothered to read that notice before.
We also have a Directv receiver connected via HDMI. I can't turn Private Listening on via the app when viewing this input, and the Private Listening button in the app has a thin red line though it. But if I have Private Listening already set to on when I go to this input, THEN I get no audio through either tv speakers or the phone, and it still will not respond to the Private Listing button when I try to turn Private Listening off. While in this state, if I try to adjust the volume using the remote side buttons, then I do get the crossed-out earphone icon on the tv screen flashing on temporarily. The only way I've found to get out of this state is to return to the home screen and turn Private Listening off there.
Our TV is set to start up viewing Directv as that's what my wife does most. So if the TV was left on Directv while the phone app is set to Private Listening, it starts up in the state you describe.
She's back on the set now so I can't do any further experimenting at the moment. If you leave the set in that state when it is turned off and then subsequently turn the app off on the phone, I don't know if the problem state carries over or if the fresh start on the tv clears it. I suspect you may have to have the app running and turn Private Listening off as described above. It also might be that a restart of the tv (Settings > System > Power > System restart) might clear it as well.
I'm guessing if the conditions I described above stay in place for several minutes, your system detects this and tries to switch Private Listening in and out several times to try to get it established, and when this continues to fail, just turns the tv speakers on. I never thought to just leave it sit for a while to see if this is the case.
I was unaware of any of this, as this is mostly my wife's set and she NEVER used the Roku app, let alone Private Listening.
So I guess the moral of the story, at least for my installation, is to not leave the app in Private Listening mode when not watching the tv.
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