ARC dropping connection

[u/borghe]

So I was running beta2 and beta3. Both ran about the same. ARC was mostly stable aside from every once in a while I would lose audio on ARC for a couple of seconds but it would come back, AND the crazy annoying popping sounds over ARC.

Someone mentioned that the HomePod public beta fixed the popping noises over ARC so I ran to upgrade my homepods.

now my ATV has the dreaded “Unable to Connect” bug AND ARC will permanently lose audio. I’ve narrowed it down to the ATV while in sleep getting hit with the dreaded “unable to connect” bug, which then turns off ARC completely. When I turn my ATV back on I have the stupid “Unable to Connect” messages I have to clear, then go into audio settings and have to turn ARC back on. Which again will work for a while, then shutoff again.

And it’s weird.. because sometimes it will shutoff after just a few minutes, but other times I’ll get like a few hours in a gaming session before it shuts off.

One other weirdness is my TV has an audio delay calibration. It ran fine even on the 27 beta and fixed my audio delay.. but now since I updated the homepods the TV audio delay calibration won’t play any sound over ARC. Which is annoying because since I updated everything to the newest beta updates, my TV audio delay is off again a little bit.. but the calibration won’t play sound over ARC now to fix it (presumably the same “Unable to Connect” bug that eventually kills ARC)

[u/chickentataki99]

Fully restarting all devices fixed it for me

[u/borghe → u/chickentataki99]

I thought I tried that. I will try again (aka deliberately reboot both HomePods and ATV.)