Is it possible to include that in the startup macro? I'm using a Harmony 525.

Most likely but it would help to know what you are controling

Thanks for helping me. I'm trying to control a Schneider TV fed by either a Strong Sat Receiver or a Cyberhome DVD player. Now, when watching TV, I use the built-in speakers of my Schneider. When I switch to the DVD-activity then, I feed the sound to my Harman/K AVR. The problem is, that the TV volume still is tuned up from watching TV and I cannot switch my DVD player to feed only the AVR. It also feeds the sound to the TV via the scart cable. So the sound from the TV's speakers and sound from my hifi-speakers is overlapping. I have to manually turn down the TV volume each time. It would be very handy, if TV volume could be turned town automatically prior to DVD-watching and turned up vice versa, when I switch to the TV-activity.

Three obvious solutions spring to mind:

1) Don't use your TV's built-in speakers ever. Ever. Run all audio to your A/V Receiver.

2) Connect your DVD player to the TV with a video-only connection (e.g. component cables).

3) Does your TV display an icon when muted? If not, just add the TV's mute command to the start and end of your Watch DVD activity to have the TV muted.

4) see if your TV supports a discrete command to turn the speakers on and off.

Thought of that, but don't want to have my A/V running all the time.


Possible. But comes at the price of quality loss.


This would be a VERY good solution. But how do I add the mute command to the activity command list?


This is unfortunately not supported by my TV.

Run the activity setup wizard again and when it ask you if these settings are correct, select "Yes, but I want to add more control of options and devices for this Activity". It will go through the setup again, but it will give you the opportunity to add sequences of commands to run at Activity start and Activity end.

Thanks! It actually works now. You guys have been very helpful. I'm glad, I've have found this forum. It's a shame that Logitech's software hides useful options so deeply in the menus.

What Brad_NC meant is to connect your DVD player sound output directly to your AV receiver (bypassing the TV). This will improve the sound quality.

I have hooked up my DVD player to the AVR of course. With quality loss, I was referring to the suggestion of using a component cable for video transfer. Of course, I could use a scart cable without sound connectors for video to prevent the TV form receiving sound signals.

I've never touched a SCART cable, much less compared the video quality, but does it provide a higher quality connection than a component video connection? I was under the impression that SCART could carry composite, s-video, or RGB and could (via RGB) equal the quality of component - I'd never heard that it was superior. Not saying that you're wrong, just want to clarify my understanding of the quality of a SCART connection.

I'm afraid, I was confusing composite and component video. Component video formats like RGB, YPbPr and YCbC of course all boast equally high quality. In fact RGB signals are commonly transferred via Scart cables. However, most RGB Scart cables transport video&audio, which was my problem. The inferior quality yellow composite cables on the other hand only transfer video signals, which would have solved my problem, but would have yielded much lower quality.
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