Roku hdmi stick and Pioneer VSX-822 won't work together (1 Viewer)

Hi, according to the Roku website http://support.roku.com/entries/22281904-How-do-I-setup-audio-for-home-theater-#scene6it is possible to plug in their hdmi stick into an hdmi input on a receiver and get video and surround sound audio. Unfortunately, this receiver doesn't seem to recognize the stick at all; the display just flashes "hdmi" as if nothing is plugged in on that channel.

Anyone have similar experience and managed to get it to work?

Thanks

Hi Barrie!

Welcome to the forum!

I would think the stick would work better thru a Blu-ray player with HDMI input
than a receiver. However, I have never tried it with a receiver.

You need a special type of HDMI for this to work. From the link you posted:

[*]Connect the Roku Streaming Stick into the MHL input of the AVR (Roku Ready Version only, also requires a Roku Ready AVR)
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Unless your AVR has a MHL input, the Roku stick will not work.

Yup, Roku advertising hasn't exactly been straight forward on needing the HDMI to be MHL.If no MHL, exchange for a regular Roku.Pretty sure the Amazon Fire Stick is MHL as well(but I've not checked).The ChromeCast doesn't need MHL.

@Ronald: thanks! My blu player doesn't have hdmi-in unfortunately.

@David: according to the Roku site, there should be two ways to do it, this way should work:

"Connect the Roku Streaming Stick into an available HDMI input on the HDMI AVR (HDMI Version only)"

Unfortunately, my receiver doesn't have a MHL (the next version got it) and the stick is way past the return period.

Doh!

Connect it to the TV then, then run optical/coax back to the AVR.Are there any 5.1 supported apps on the stick anyway?

Hey guys, after an hour or so chatting with Roku tech support, I discovered the reason why it wasn't working. It seems that unlike with the hdmi ports on the tv, the Roku is not a snug fit in the ports on the receiver. I actually got it to work but only by accident and much jiggling to find the sweet spot. Turns out that the Roku remote is harder to use when the stick is hidden behind the receiver anyway so I took Sam's advice and ran an optical from the tv (I didn't know my tv even had one until today!) to the receiver and now everything is good.

Thanks to everyone for chipping in their two cents. This is a great forum!

Barrie,

So happy you got it all figured out and are here with us.

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