Not sure if this should be a rant, or something to drop into the happy thread.....
Nothing like that dawning realization that you've been beating your head against the wall looking for a complicated solution when there's been a simple one staring you in the face all along..........
Been trying different pieces of hardware and multitudes of settings trying to get around the fact that I've only got one analog (monitor remote from desktop workstation, but the PC is attached to the back of it) and one HDMI video output on my mITX media server, but that when I routed the main monitor (widescreen) through a receiver via HDMI in order to get audio, I'd lose the output to the monitor if I turned the amp off, or decided to listen to the FM tuner. This would drop video output to the remote (analog) monitor which isn't easily viewed from the workspace. It wasn't a deal breaker for the way I had stuff set up, it was just irking me that I couldn't manage to subjugate the existing hardware to work exactly as I wished no matter what the initial design was. (If I'm OCD about anything it's wanting to get the results I want... ).
Today's discovery was that windows doesn't automatically send audio down the HDMI connection if it's detecting a non-audio DVI connection at the other end thus my attempt at using an HDMI splitter didn't work at all.... I had pretty much resigned myself to accepting the setup as it stands but then had one of those light bulb moments that's simultaneously satisfying (because you finally thought of the solution), and maddening (because it took so long to see the obvious solution right in front of you).
Solution??????
Since the only purpose the remote monitor serves is to display media information while I'm exercising to music being played while the amp is turned on and selected to that monitor, then it won't matter at all to me if it loses it's signal when I turn off (or select a different input) the receiver... all that mucking about and the solution was to swap the analog and digital connection..........
I'm blaming it on old age creeping up on me.....
Nothing like that dawning realization that you've been beating your head against the wall looking for a complicated solution when there's been a simple one staring you in the face all along..........
Been trying different pieces of hardware and multitudes of settings trying to get around the fact that I've only got one analog (monitor remote from desktop workstation, but the PC is attached to the back of it) and one HDMI video output on my mITX media server, but that when I routed the main monitor (widescreen) through a receiver via HDMI in order to get audio, I'd lose the output to the monitor if I turned the amp off, or decided to listen to the FM tuner. This would drop video output to the remote (analog) monitor which isn't easily viewed from the workspace. It wasn't a deal breaker for the way I had stuff set up, it was just irking me that I couldn't manage to subjugate the existing hardware to work exactly as I wished no matter what the initial design was. (If I'm OCD about anything it's wanting to get the results I want...
).Today's discovery was that windows doesn't automatically send audio down the HDMI connection if it's detecting a non-audio DVI connection at the other end thus my attempt at using an HDMI splitter didn't work at all.... I had pretty much resigned myself to accepting the setup as it stands but then had one of those light bulb moments that's simultaneously satisfying (because you finally thought of the solution), and maddening (because it took so long to see the obvious solution right in front of you).
Solution??????
Since the only purpose the remote monitor serves is to display media information while I'm exercising to music being played while the amp is turned on and selected to that monitor, then it won't matter at all to me if it loses it's signal when I turn off (or select a different input) the receiver... all that mucking about and the solution was to swap the analog and digital connection..........
I'm blaming it on old age creeping up on me.....
