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Can you\How can you connect to a monitor with 3.5mm audio in jack?

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Hello, I have a Acer Gaming XF240YUbmiidprzx 23.8 inch 2K monitor and I was wondering why I can't stream audio from my laptop to it, nor from my phone. I had plugged a hdmi cable for video but I wanted the sound to come through the 3.5 jack not hdmi. I also tried with my phone while the laptop hdmi was plugged and didn't worked. I tried both with the monitor disabled from "Playback Devices" on windows. I saw on internet that you need a not audio input cable like Vga or Dvi paired with the jack, but i don't have one of these. Why doesn't happen anything?

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It's likely on an audio output, meaning you can plug in your headphones/speakers in there. Not the other way around, with your being able to play audio from another device to the monitor with that port. Most that do allow this have an audio in and out.

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1 minute ago, Minibois said:

It's likely on an audio output, meaning you can plug in your headphones/speakers in there. Not the other way around, with your being able to play audio from another device to the monitor with that port. Most that do allow this have an audio in and out.

I'm talking of the line in jack not the out jack. I have two jacks, one in and one out, it's not just one.

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2 minutes ago, dandelion said:

I'm talking of the line in jack not the out jack. I have two jacks, one in and one out, it's not just one.

In that case you just need to plug in your device to the right jack with a 3.5mm cable and turn on the speakers in the GUI.

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1 minute ago, Minibois said:

In that case you just need to plug in your device to the right jack with a 3.5mm cable and turn on the speakers in the GUI.

Done that, didn't work. And if you're talking of a GUI in my monitor for audio I don't have that. I can set only the volume :'

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Just now, dandelion said:

Done that, didn't work. And if you're talking of a GUI in my monitor for audio I don't have that. I can set only the volume :'

Ah, yeah that is what I meant with GUI. Just the menu where you can set the audio input and volume.

From what I gather from the manual, you just have to plug in the audio cable to the correct socket (AUDIO IN in this case) and just turn up the volume..You could try to limit some parts of this equation by plugging in headphones to the audio out to test that

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2 minutes ago, Minibois said:

Ah, yeah that is what I meant with GUI. Just the menu where you can set the audio input and volume.

From what I gather from the manual, you just have to plug in the audio cable to the correct socket (AUDIO IN in this case) and just turn up the volume..You could try to limit some parts of this equation by plugging in headphones to the audio out to test that

Fortunately audio out works. And I don't have an option on gui to select the audio source, just to select between hdmi, dvi and dp.

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So, yeah. I got the monitor plugged into a DVI (gpu) so now I see that the 3.5 jack is working whether I plug it into my motherboard or my phone. I think that having a monitor cable that transmit both video and audio like HDMI and DP blocks other audio sources like jack. Now I know my monitor isn't broken. And my monitor isn't but i think others might be streaming audio with only the jack plugged in, because in my case it needs a output of video so that jack would work.

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