Movingmy TV from a wall to an area above a mantel over a gas fireplace. The mounting area will be brick faced so I am installing a power conduit and a signal conduit to appear behind the TV mount. All of my electronics (HDMI devices, Directv box, etc) will be located in a credenza which is about 20 ft or so across the room from my TV. Is there an extension cable or a longer one connect cable I can buy to complete this project? The One Connect box is labeled BN96-44183A and had four HDMI ports and one coaxial connector for antenna. There is no power connector on this box, just signal. The TV is a 2017/2018 model UN65MU8000F. I searched this community but could not find a definitive answer for my model. Thanks,
It seems from the reading I've done there are at least a couple different types of One Connect cables. Hopefully I can identify one. A 15 meter cable would work. Now to find one that works with my TV/box. Thanks
There is no extension cable or longer cable available from either Samsung or from a third party vendor. Believe me, I exhausted my search - nada. With that I had to get very creative but I got lucky and the original cable was long enough to reach just below the floor then I used very long HDMI cords to complete the connection. It is crazy they do not offer a longer cable for that. Sorry!
I did not fund a work around for my TV. The cable was just long enough to get it through the floor under the TV (which is mounted above a fire place mantle). From there I used longer HDMI cords to get to my Directv box, DVD player, etc, Very frustrating
yes, the main cable runs through the wall and down into the basement where it connects to the box. The HDMI cords come from a cabinet down into the basement, above a suspended ceiling and to the main box and connect. Hope that is clear!
I recently moved homes and when I set up the TV I discovered I could not get any picture. Several attempts of checking my cables, changing cables (HDMI, ethernet) did not produce a single picture. I then isolated the One Connect Mini box and that's when the TV gave me something!
My joy was short lived when I got two messages saying "One Connect Mini has been disconnected. The TV will restart in .. seconds", the other message was "Updating TV software... Don't turn off the TV or disconnect the power cable until the update finishes..."
One thing I should add is in the process of changing WiFi password, factory settings, the two messages did not stop showing up and the TV was continually restarting... meaning I had to complete the commands at breakneck speed in order to achieve what I was attempting.
For several days my Samsung TV has been rebooting automatically every two minutes, preceded by a panel saying 'One Connect Mini has been disconnected'. The odd thing is that I do not have a separate external One Connect Mini box. My very clued-up dealer in West London (UK) who supplied the TV in 2014 thinks this is a bug caused at the most recent software update. Has anyone else out there got the same problem? The dealer suggested re-setting to factory settings but I find this impossible to do in the very short time before the next reboot. Samsung, if you are listening, thanks for advice.
However, recently the A7 quit connecting to the PC over USB. It charges from the USB port but the PC does not recognize that anything is plugged into the port. Since the old Tab A still connects fine I assumed the A7 must have a bad USB C port and so I picked up a new S6 tablet. However, it also fails to connect!
A combination of things has solved my problems. The first was apparently the USB C cable. I had used this cable for years with the Galaxy Tab A7 for debugging my Android app over USB. So I bought an S6 Lite to be able to try both a new tablet and a new cable. To my surprise, the new cable made the Galaxy Tab A7 again available for debugging. At least this is solved.
However, after enabling developer options and USB debugging, I could not get the new S6 Lite to be available for debugging. In the last message, Ron said " Select Transferring files or Transferring images". Mine was set for transferring files so I switched it to transferring images. For some reason this made it work. Then I switched it back to transferring files and it still works.
The instructions are very clear that for any 90 degree turns in the one-connect cable you should use a "bending cover" to prevent damage to the cable from being to severely. From my box to the TV my one-connect requires four right angled turns. But they only provide one bending cover for the TV.
Its called the Holder OC Ring. But, like in the original package, its packaged with a screw and the black plastic holder thing as well. The person was able to email me a photo of the item to confirm.
At the time of writing, it cost 4.75 + shipping. Shipping was surprisingly pricey - 4 bucks to me in east coast US. I ordered 2 just to justify it.
As far as I can see, the holder oc ring is just the wall mounting attachment, not the 'bending cover' which is what I am after. Not tried Samsung suppport yet, but on-line searches have revealed nothing. It's the sort of thing that given the right dimensions, someone with a 3D printer could make a tidy profit on!
I can confirm it's in there. I bought and received two of them. Its actually a small plastic bag containing several items. I think its exactly the same small bag that contained the bending cover that came with the TV. The blue bending cover, the black holder thing, and the screw.
Unfortunately you box is not broken, and yes TV manufactureres LG, Samsung, ... are very cheap, and no longer invest in quality components for network connections. Nowadays its very hard to find a "Smart TV" that has gigabit ethernet. A paradox in itself. I cant seem to justify their logic behind it :S
My Q6FN, which is a lot cheaper than your Q900R, also has a 100 Mbit wired connection, while 2.4 / 5 GHz wireless can achieve higher link speeds than that. Luckily I already had 5 GHz wireless, but needless to say that I was also disappointed to find out that was my only option.
Playing high bitrate BR remuxes over the wired interface is not going to happen. Not to mention that DTS or any other high quality BR codecs are NOT natively supported, so you MUST transcode your audio (to AC-3) if you are not using any AV receivers.
However, I'm going to leave the ethernet enabled because I want to mimise the network frequencies arround. I have the router (Google WiFi) below the Samsung TV and I use Bluetooth a lot with BT headsets connected to the TV.
Also. I think with wired, Plex works better. Today I was trying to stream a Samsung 4K 60FPS HDR (51000 bit rate) demo and I think with WiFi I was getting issues while forwarding, etc. But with wired, so far so good.
There are some things I don't like from Samsung TV that I'll definitely consider when upgrading to 8K in the future or a VRR high refresh rate TV. (Because now that I got a 1440k 144Hz VRR monitor I completely stopped using my 4K 60Hz TV for gaming, unless a game is capped to 60FPS, which would make more sense to use the TV).
I was also quite disappointed to see sub 100mbps ethernet speeds on my Q70. I have a 1 gig Verizon Fios connection and was quite let-down to see a fraction of that, espectially on a 4k TV- which uses more bandwidth than anything else on my network. The best I can acheive on
fast.com is around 94mbps. So, as a result, I will either downgrade my internet package or find a TV with gigabit ethernet. The former is more likely.
When the same cat5e ethernet cable is plugged from the Q70 to my old PC, my speed is amout 935mbps. What a waste. Even with a Netflix 4k movies, in instances, I see the picutre blur and get sharp again as if the connection is having trouble at times OR it's Netflix' fault. Although I've never seen a a 4k stream just stop to buffer.
My question is: At what WIFI speed, given it's shortcomings, latency, etc, would be worth switching from a 95mbps ethernet connection to WIFI? (Haven't tried the Q70 on wifi but my old S5 cellphone gets about 250mbps.) Thanks.
Thanks. I also don't like to use WIFI either because we have many devices. But I'm going to try our Q70 on our 5ghz network and see how it performs compared to the 94 mbps ethernet. (Speedtest is one thing, but real world performance is another.) Our TV is in close proximity the router and almost in direct line of sight in an ajacent room 5 meters away. I'll let you know.
My tv is a bit older, but I'm dealing with the same...surprise. I just went through the hassle of buying wire fish tape, fishing Ethernet up a wall, etc etc, which for some pesy but for me was a huge pia.
Thing is...I didn't know this yesterday, when I had the line plugged in directly to the tv...and my connection was better, more consistent than wifi. My 5ghz connection from my basement has always been choppy and my 2.4ghz usually worked fine even with 4k but sometimes...it just failed.
I looked in the manual to see any details on it and there is nothing, no specification noted anywhere from what I can tell. The manual recommended to use CAT7 STP which is basically non-existent where I live and so completely overkill considering that CAT5.E has been compatible with 1Gbps for a LONG long time...
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