Disklavier

I have contacted Yamaha (not much help) and a great dealer in St. Louis (quite a bit of help) and am trying to connect a Smart TV to a Mark IV - without using a PC interface. Does anyone have an updated connection diagram (not in the Disklavier TV Users Guide) that can show an easy conversion? Firing up a PC/Laptop every time I use the video function is burdensome.

I would prefer to not use an Ipad and use the browser in the Smart TV. I was considering buying a Samsung for this dedicated video but wanted to hear any ideas first.

Thanks for any help.

Michael Boyd

Owensboro, KY

Hey Michael,

Does your Smart TV have Bluetooth capability? 

If you can get the Disklavier TV website to display videos on your TV and can manage to send the audio (L) & (R) output to your Disklavier's Sync-In (L) & (R) RCA Jacks - it might work. 

The Disklavier TV's encoded data stream is in the RIGHT CHANNEL of the output needs to be connected to your SINC-IN R-Jack for the Disklavier to play. 

The LEFT CHANNEL is the programs audio stream which I have it going to a "Y" cable going to both the L & R INPUTs on my Home Theater's  AUXILIARY input on my surround sound system.

That way I have Sound coming from both speakers instead of just the left one... like you would if you used the TV's speakers.

I played my Disklavier TV and Remote Live sessions on a Sony Google TV device. It had HDMI out for the video and so I sent the Audio out via Bluetooth to a Bluetooth receiver that I had connected to my Yamaha Disklavier SYNC-IN (R) and the LEFT channel going to my audio amplifier and split with the "Y" cable as I explained above.

I use the Sony Google TV box for a few years until this Spring when I replaced it with an dedicated extremely small DELL mini computer with Windows 10 with HDMI out and bluetooth. It's not only a lot faster, plus can run the Virtual PRC (piano remote control) for my Disklavier Mark IV and some other programs I wrote to control and set up for Disklavier TV. 

Down side of tuning on a dedicated computer is that it has more software maintenance than the Sony Google TV box.

Let me know how your setup works.

-Ken 

Ken Ruda
Kansas City