So I swear to god my TV only has a DIsh receiver, and an old DVD player connected by composite. I also have a Sony Sound bar. I swear to god my TV used to switch to HDMI automatically when you turned it on. However, its not doing that now and I cannot get my remote to switch the tv to HDMI when you power it on. I have the TV power on first, delay 1 second, turn on dvr, delay one second, and then switch to hdmi 1....but its not enough time. The damn TV is not booted enough at that point to make the switch.

What is the trick? Surely you guys arent putting 5 seconds of delays in to wait for the TV to be able to switch.

For whatever reason, the TV, when powered off, comes back on at whatever input was previously selected. I cannot for the life of me find any alternative to this so I must have dreamed that it went to HDMI1 on its own.

HELP!

More like 10 seconds of delay are needed for most TVs. You probably had the HDMI control enabled previously. That is why it was automatic.

You can use a variable to only have it use the long delay when the TV powers up the first time.

Seriously, ten seconds?

OK...well, Ill fix it. Ill set a variable too.

Where is the HDMI setting? I didn't change settings, but now that it has two inputs to HDMI, maybe it doesnt know what to do.

it could be that it is confused.  most people don't rely on the hdmi control and they turn it off.  on samsung tvs it is in the settings menu towards the bottom of the list.  each source device usually has it in a setup menu as well.  it needs to be turned on in both units for it to function.
 

Some Samsungs have a 12-15 sec delay, so play with it. Variable helps so you don't have to have a 15 second pause every single time you switch to that input.

some new samsung models have a quick turn on feature.  i think you can get away with like 5 seconds with these models.

If you use only HDMI sources, you can get a 3x1 HDMI switch from SNAP that is i.r. controlled and forget about the turn on delays. The switch is cheap.

And actually works really well. I've used a few of these with zero issues.

Im not a dealer. Im a consumer. I do only have HDMI inputs, but turning off HDMI switching may create a problem with my soundbar since it uses ARC. HDMI control is called ANynet I believe.

But, if I understand its function, I put my dish and BD into the switch, and the switch just goes straight to an HDMI input on my TV. I can still use HDMI control for ARC on the sound bar, but instead of the remote switching the TV input, it just switches the "3x1 switch" input. The TV input remains teh same at all times.

You currently have the sources going to the soundbar I presume. This would be your best bet, assuming you have a soundbar with discrete input commands. This will act as your HDMI switch and eliminate the lengthy delay. Another thing you could do is program the most commonly used input into your power off macro before the source off command is sent. This way when you turn the system on to the most commonly used source, it will already be on that input.

I typically just program a power tracking variable in to set the delays.

Alright...two things.

1.) The inputs go to the TV, not the soundbar. I have a sony ht-660. I only have a single hdmi going to my soundbar right now via ARC.

2.) My URC MX780 does not support If then statements, so variables are of no use right?

It has True/False statements. For your purposes it will work just fine.

OK....how do I go about that?

Ok, maybe I'm misunderstanding, or not understanding ARC since I've never actually used it. How can you feed sources to the tv, and then feed audio to the soundbar for those sources via ARC to the soundbar, which would require changing the input on the tv to the hdmi port connected to the soundbar.

Unless I am misunderstanding something here, I think your best option is running your sources through the soundbar. I believe that Sony has 3 HDMI inputs.

Well...I don't know. LOL.

I have all of the sources running via HDMI to the TV inputs. And since the ARC HDMI is plugged into the TV AND SOUNDBAR that it simply passes the sound to the soundbar. I have no sound coming out of the TV...its all the soundbar/sub.

There is a specific HDMI port for ARC. Then I simply use the leftover HDMI ports for each of the sources (DVR, BD). So, there is not input switching aside from source. It only uses the ARC hdmi for sound and passes it to the soundbar regardless of which inputs are sending sound.