LG WTP3 WOWCAST Wireless Audio Transmitter for TV to Soundbar Wireless Connection

Connection to TV, WIFI and phones works well. From technical page, assumed voice connection as well. Does not voice connect. +

Huge LG fan here when it comes to my monster flatscreen Web OS Smart TV or accompanied sound bar - both equipped with Dolby Atmos, not to mention the superior sound of the LG Tone Free T90Q earbuds (also w Dolby Atmos) w Spatial audio & head tracking technology. I used to enjoy their phones too. But this little gadget is spotty at best. Every time I could successfully get it to connect - good luck - it would eventually stop using the Wi-Fi signal and route to Bluetooth which then made this device totally unnecessary and really annoying. The whole point is to use a wireless connection for the audio utilizing Wi-Fi - kind of like a Google speaker pair - but I couldn't get it to function this way long enough to finish a single episode of a sitcom. It kept wanting to use the Bluetooth but by whole reason for buying this was to have the Bluetooth channel free for the LG TV dual connect feature so I could then connect to my Google Nest Audio speaker pair and have enhanced surround sound. I still do this and it works but because it's dual link I can only use the TV speakers or the sound bar speakers while connected to the other pair. Anyway, I even contacted LG for help but they couldn't figure it out because all my devices were on the list of compatible connections. I'm still an LG fan but this was a total bomb that really let me down. Not worth the effort.

So here’s the story, I have an Apple TV connected to a Hue synch box that’s connected to the sound bar to finally connected to the TV. This setup has been a nightmare to say the least. Screen would black out, I would lose audio, or delayed response time. The LG wowcast has solved all these problems! I am now enjoying my Hue lights effects and Dolby Atmos sound with maximum compatibility and ease of use. Cables to the TV are not completely eliminated as I do have to connect 1 HDMI cable from the Hue Synch box to the TV so (Apple-Hue-Tv). But that’s not a problem for me at all. Highly recommend this device, cheap, invisible and effortless to use.

If you get someone to install this well it is a great addition to your entertainment center.

Works like a charm! It does have some quirks with pairing ... but ya know ... technology. If you're really into cable management, and achieving a sleek look ... not having the HDMI cable involved is nice.

Couldn't be easier. I bought this for use with a new LG 83" OLED C3 and S80QY sound bar (and rear speaker kit) to eliminate a HDMI cable from TV to sound bar. Plugged it into the TV, went to (sound bar) settings on the TV and chose "E-ARC" and the sound bar flashed "Wowcast" on its display immediately and the sound was back. Easy peasy. Why LG doesn't BUILD THIS DEVICE INTO THEIR TVs IS A MYSTERY. The only side effect I can see is that a message appears on the bottom of the TV for 5 seconds when you turn on the TV, saying "soundbar is now connected."

Bought this with the LG S95QR sound bar and wireless speakers to hook up to a new LG OLED TV. Connected seemlessly and I thought we were onto a winner. After a short time we started getting loud cracks coming from the speakers. Some sort of static. It got so frequent and loud we've disconnected this piece of junk and hard wired the sound system. The sound system is another whole story and there's a YT review which I'd wished I had seen before considering my purchase of both of these. Long and short is LG make great TV's, sound systems and wireless connections, not so much

I have an LG SC9S soundbar/subwoofer hooked up to our LGOLEDG383 television. That soundbar is really made for the "C" TV's, with a bracket to fit onto them, but I got it at half price from Costco. It sits on the cabinet below the TV and works fine. Anyway, I have it connected via HDMI cable through the ARC channel. I bought this thing because I wanted to add Wow Orchestra--playing the TV speakers along with the soundbar. But I did not want to use the WowCast feature--wireless transmission to the soundbar--because I think wired is almost always the best choice. LG Support told me I could do this. They said I could buy this WTP3 audio transmitter and plug its HDMI cable into a regular HDMI port on the TV--not the ARC HDMI port, which was already occupied by my wired connection to the soundbar. (Instructions for this say you must plug the HDMI into the ARC port.) They said WowOrchestra would then appear as an option in my TV settings and I could have TV speaker sound to go along with the soundbar output. No Wowcast but Wow Orchestra. So I tried that. Well, nothing LG Support told me turned out to be the case. No choice of Wow Orchestra in the TV settings, for a start. And pretty much nothing would work right. The TV speakers would be working but the soundbar was silent. I would mess around with settings and then the soundbar would work by itself but my Apple TV remote would not work, even though Simplink was on and it had been working fine. And then no sound at all and weird blinking and talking from the soundbar. On and on. So, I contacted LG Support again (via X messaging). This time, they knew nothing about using a non-ARC HDMI port, just told me how to set it up for WowCast and could only give me instructions for that. As though the people I had talked to the day before had gone home and these people had no access to the prior messages. At that point, I threw in the towel, disconnected the WTP3 transmitter, turned the TV and sound bar off and back on and we were back where we started, with sound coming from the soundbar and my Apple TV remote working fine. So, maybe this device would have worked OK had I gone with the WowCast connection, which is what it is made for. Probably would have. But trying to use it just for Wow Orchestra, using LG Support's instructions was just a massive cluster-you-know-what. In case you had that in mind, I don't recommend it.

Tenía mis dudas sí reconocería mi LG C2 pero lo hace. Me gustó mucho porque permite usar Bluetooth y cable óptico. Sí empleo el cable hdmi con eArc no puedo enviar el audio a mis audífonos a través de Bluetooth o cable óptico a dac.