LG Soundbar 4+

Get LG Sound-bar to work & forget the app

How to get this LG Soundbar to even work.
LG has poor micro instructions. First unpack everything. The Soundbar must be plugged in to outlet. And you use the optical wire to plug from Soundbar to TV.
Plug in Subwoofer. The receiver or other black box plug in. Two little speakers HAVE to be wired into back of receiver. The two 10 foot wires are either BLUE or GREY. They are split on each end. Tricky part. One of the split wires has a black thread running through split.. Other side of split is clear. The black thread split goes into black Jack on receiver or -. Then the Soundbar & speakers should work. The remote has a lower left triple circle button to adjust the Speakers. The little wired ones are just R or rear so they adjust together as one.
As far as app is concerned I haven’t figured out if it’s a scam app or what. But you don’t need it .. you can make all adjustments on remote..

If you have trouble connecting read this!

Let me just start off by saying that the execution of an intuitive setup is terrible and has failed miserably.

After sever hours I finally figured out that in order to connect you need to connect to the sound bar as a wi-if network. For instance, on IOS, go to settings> wi-fi> then select the soundbar as the actual network. Once you do this, you can use the app to connect and adjust settings. I lose access to the internet by doing this, and I am sure there is a way to maybe setup as air play or something but haven’t figured that part out yet. I just switch back and forth as needed. I hope they improve this app soon, but looking at how long this has been an issue, I highly doubt it.

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incredibly bad

This app is minimum effort garbage that may work for you if you are lucky. For context, I'm trying to use it to configure an SP9YA soundbar.

To be clear, my desired result of using this app is to have the bar connected to my wifi so that I can use it as an AirPlay speaker or whatever. The app doesn't let you do much configuration that you can't do with the bar's remote, and the stuff unique to the app seems of marginal benefit (at best) anyway.

So what's the problem? Well, the process of booting up the app, connecting to the bar via Bluetooth, and getting it to connect to your wifi is poorly documented, poorly presented in the UI, and *incredibly* flaky. The first time I tried, it took ~5 tries and then worked for no apparent reason; then my cat somehow managed to factory reset the bar by walking over the buttons and then it took me ~10 tries to get it to connect again. There was no discernible difference between these attempts, and it's clear that the bar has no fundamental issue with being connected to my wifi, so what's the problem? Well, that's something only LG can figure out, and they obviously don't care.

Seriously, it's bad. Steer clear unless you *really* want to be able to AirPlay to your LG soundbar. And if you proceed past this point, may God have mercy on your soul.