Blutooth coverter -will it turn on with TV speaker

DEBTMONKEY1A wrote: »

Wow....thanks guys/gals......plenty to look at! Which socket would the Bluetooth transmitter fit to? Already have a small bluetooth 'bud' that would be SO much more comfortable and cheapest option as transmitters would be 5-6 quid only.

Again....sorry to be thick but as soon as Bluetooth plugged in TV speakers go off? Will deffo look st all options.

WOW.....technical knowledge is FAB on here-THANKS!

You can almost certainly get a bluetooth transmitter that would plug into the TV headphones output. But you said it's very hard to access the headphone socket, so you wouldn't want to have to keep reaching round the TV to unplug the transmitter in order to turn on the TV speakers.

The alternative is to, effectively, create a second headphone socket, taking the sound from the TV scart output socket. But this is all slightly speculative, since we don't know for sure exactly how that works - exact TV model number would help.


When I got the audio output from scart socket, I had to solder up my own connector. But I did once have a proper patch kit thing which allowed a scart connector to be converted to various other connectors. But something like this might do the trick:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Video-Piece-SCART-Adapter-S-Video/dp/B003JHCW02/ref=sr_1_3

If you had a bluetooth transmitter that could plug into the phono output, or which had a 3.5 socket that the cable could plug into, it might work. (Sorry, I'm not an expert in this area, but I'm sure someone else will point out if I'm wrong.) There are some cheaper ones that don't have the cables, which would make sense

Or a cable such as this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/KnnX-28052-Bidirectional-Headphone-Transmitter-Black/dp/B00X5NRC5U/ref=sr_1_5
would plug into the scart adapter thing and provide a 3.5mm headphone socket, into which a bluetooth transmitter could go. (If you don't already have a bluetooth transmitter, you could test by plugging in some powered pc speakers or something - may not be sufficient power to drive headphones or unpowered speakers directly. Or your existing IR headphones, for that matter.)

Anyway, all sorts of adapters are available, just a case of finding patching bits and pieces together to do what you need.

If the SCART solution doesn't work, the other option suggested is to just not bother with the TV speakers at all, and plug a headphone splitter (eg from poundland) into the headphone socket permanently.

Then plug some powered speakers (eg pc speakers) and your IR/bluetooth transmitter into the cable splitter, and it becomes easy to switch between the two.

Or a slightl variant : my PC speakers have their own headphone socket on the front. Like your TV, plugging something into that disables the speakers. So that's equivalent to bringing your headphone socket round from the back of the TV to the front. So the PC speakers replace the TV speakers, but plugging the transmitter into the PC speakers would disable them in turn.