step one for setting up sonos arc is obviously take it out of the box and get it placed based on
the very small manual that comes with it after you get it situated you are going to plug in the power
and the cable to it i will state that it does not come with an ethernet cable although it
does have an ethernet port on the back so i do have my asus wi-fi router over there so i'll
just snake a cable over so that the arc doesn't have to operate via wi-fi so right now it's in
place we're going to get everything plugged in next my particular older tv there would not just
accept a hdmi so i'm actually going to use the optical adapter to plug it into my tv
the power supply is on the left while the hdmi is on the right when facing the power supply
while it might feel like you just place it in you actually do need to kind of push it in there so
don't worry it should feel like that if you just leave it loosely draping it won't work correctly
you'll know that you're ready to go when you see the green blinking light right there and then
you move on to step two which is downloading the app and creating creating a sonos account
you can create a sonos account online or you can do it through the application so here you can see
i opened up the application and without even going to add it already is popping up with the sonos arc
so i'm going to select add all right so it wants me to turn on nfc so we're going to go to settings
and i'm momentarily going to turn on nfc and then it's prompting me to go back to
the sonos app and here sonos is pretty much setting itself up it looks like
touch your mobile device to the sonos arc to
play all right so we're gonna walk the uh cell phone over here
now that is an interesting setup process so now it's adding sonos arc to my sonos account or sono
system that makes it much easier than having to type in usernames and passwords i'll give
them that i appreciate that that's pretty cool and now it wants me to tell them where it is so
we've got some choices here i'm going to say living room and continue all right so there
is an update available i did attach an ethernet cable to it so we're going to say update and this
is letting us know that the update is in process we've got the progress bar down here and then if
you wanted to apparently it gives you some options that you can do while you're waiting for the
download so here it's set songs as alarms swipe to skip tracks group speakers this is my first sono
speaker so i don't have any save favorites to my sonos and then personalize your listening so
you can connect multiple accounts to the sonos bar turn on automatic updates which i probably will do
because like i said it is attached to ethernet so it can update whenever it wants because
it'll be plugged in all the time and while i was talking it finished so we're going to select done
and then it's let's connect it to your tv so we're going to select connect to tv so
it's saying connect to these ports i do not have hdmi or hdmi arc so we're going to do can't find
and hopefully that means it will go to the optical drive so i read through this it says no e-arc port
no arc so what it's letting you know is that you are going to not be able to fully use the arc
as intended because it cannot do adobe atmos true hd m80 adobe digital plus adobe digital
these are not supported if you don't have e-arc so just know tv needs to support that if you don't
have it you'll be in the same situation i am with the needing the optical adapter but that doesn't
mean i'm not future proofing the soundbar a little bit so we're going to select that and we are going
to say i don't have arc right there and it says to plug in the optical which i've already done
i'm going to select continue and it's going to check the connection
there you go it says it has checked it go to tv settings to disable the built-in speakers
so one second while we do that so in my case for my tv it might be a little tricky to see right
there because of the color balance but i'm in my turn off the tv speakers so we're going to select
off which means no sound will come through the tv speakers anymore and then we're going to bring
our app back into focus and then tv speakers are disabled set your tv remote to use with sonos arc
we're going to select continue point your tv remote at the sonos and press volume plus
we can now adjust the tv volume using the remote sonos arc is now connected to your tv done
so there we go living room tv and that was the setup for the sonos arc
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