Auto turn on

[Hollywood]

Hi,

I am using my Ultra as a DSP/DAC and the actual music streamer I use is connected with an optical cable. It works pretty awesome and when the WiiM starts, it also triggers my power amp to turn on.

My issue is that sometime I am working on something and I want to have my music at a fairly low volume so when I start the player, the WiiM sometimes does not turn on unless I increase the input volume.

Is there a way to lower that turn on threshold?

thanks!

 

[Wiimer]

Hi,

I am using my Ultra as a DSP/DAC and the actual music streamer I use is connected with an optical cable. It works pretty awesome and when the WiiM starts, it also triggers my power amp to turn on.

My issue is that sometime I am working on something and I want to have my music at a fairly low volume so when I start the player, the WiiM sometimes does not turn on unless I increase the input volume.

Is there a way to lower that turn on threshold?

thanks!

To my knowledge, there is no such feature.

Are you setting Ultra's volume to 100% and controlling the volume through the streamer?

I think you need to lower Ultra's volume (or amp's volume) and increase the streamer's volume.

 

[Hollywood]

The Ultra is set to 100% fixed and the volume is controlled by the player. The Ultra directly feeds a power amp. No volume control.

The volume I was trying to listen to was about 1/4th on the scale of the player, low for me, but plenty loud for background music. Regardless of where the volume pointer is on my player, the actual volume I wanted to play was reasonable I would expected it to trigger the auto turn on.

I shouldn't have to play the volume (actual volume level) loud(er) just to get the Ultra to turn on. Since there is no trigger in to turn on the Wiim, the optical is the only way short of always carrying the WiiM remote on the odd chance the optical turn on doesn't work.

If I was talking super low volumes, I would understand, but the level I am talking about is not that low.

Thanks for your reply. Perhaps someone at WiiM might read this and consider a firmware update that would address the turn on level thresh hold level?

 

[Wiimer]

The Ultra is set to 100% fixed and the volume is controlled by the player. The Ultra directly feeds a power amp. No volume control.

The volume I was trying to listen to was about 1/4th on the scale of the player, low for me, but plenty loud for background music. Regardless of where the volume pointer is on my player, the actual volume I wanted to play was reasonable I would expected it to trigger the auto turn on.

I shouldn't have to play the volume (actual volume level) loud(er) just to get the Ultra to turn on. Since there is no trigger in to turn on the Wiim, the optical is the only way short of always carrying the WiiM remote on the odd chance the optical turn on doesn't work.

If I was talking super low volumes, I would understand, but the level I am talking about is not that low.

Thanks for your reply. Perhaps someone at WiiM might read this and consider a firmware update that would address the turn on level thresh hold level?

I don't think such problems usually occur.

Please test whether the optical auto-sensing functions properly with the Ultra volume set to 50%.

 

[Hollywood]

I want the Ultra volume control locked out. If I could set the volume to 50% and still lock out the physical control I would. It that possible?

 

[Wiimer]

I want the Ultra volume control locked out. If I could set the volume to 50% and still lock out the physical control I would. It that possible?

You can set the volume limit to 50% to keep the volume fixed.

Volume limit:50%
Fixed Volume:On

 

[Hollywood]

Initial test seems to work.

Thanks!

 

[Wiimer]

Initial test seems to work.

Thanks!

You can increase the volume limit for Ultra within the range where Auto-Sensing is active.

 

[Hollywood]

Not quite sure what you mean?

 

[Wiimer]

Not quite sure what you mean?

You can adjust the Volume Limit between 50% ~ 99%. If Auto-Sensing stops working at 90%, set it to 89%.
(But leaving it at 50% is also fine.)

 

[Hollywood]

got it. thanks again!