Living Room Setup Help

[pilecarls8]

Hey everyone - wrapping up a new construction project and mistakenly decided to take on this AV project myself to save some money! We have a setup (pictured) with a wall mounted TV, a wall mounted SB (thou which shall not be named) below it, and no AV receiver/media streamer/cable box in sight.

All of the boxes will be in a closet nearby (we did in advance run wire (CAT5, CAT6, and COAX) from behind the TV (outlet shown) to this closet). We also ran wire for 2 wall speakers (back living room wall) to this same closet area as well as 2 outdoor speakers (that I'd like to put on a separate channel).

So my question now is, what all do I need in this closet to get this working and particularly be able to point the remote at the TV for everything to work seamlessly? Would a 2z AV receiver, Logitech Harmony (with IR blasters), Apple TV (or something similar), WiFi router, and cable box do the trick? Is there a better way to do it given the wiring we've already done?https://solitaire.onl/ https://9apps.ooo/

 

[lovinthehd]

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[tmurnin]

Can you help out with some more specifics? What are you trying to do with this setup? Are you wanting a surround-sound setup with the sound bar serving as the L/C/R and those wall speakers as the surrounds? What brand is the soundbar? Is there a reason you want to connect the AVR to the tv?

Or are you using the soundbar alone for the tv and want to use the receiver to drive music through the speakers and the outdoor speakers? In which case I'm not sure why you'd need any connection between the TV/SB and the closet, just wire the tv to the SB (assuming the TV is a smart tv and you don't need a separate streamer). If you need a cable/satellite box, that changes things, but if you're just doing a YouTubeTV/Hulu setup, I don't think you'd need anything else.

For connectivity, if you have a cable modem located in that closet, I'd just use an ethernet router and run Cat5 directly from the router to your AVR/AppleTV. No reason to involve WiFi if you can connect directly with ethernet.