Dynamically Switching To/From a First Network During Audio Playback Over HDMI/ARC

A media device, comprising:

• a first transceiver;
• a memory;
• and
• a digital signal processor coupled to the memory and configured to:
• first determine that an audio stream is received over a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)/Audio Return Channel (ARC) interface;
• second determine that a network loading of a first channel of a first wireless network exceeds a predetermined threshold of a latency or a bandwidth;
• identify a clean second channel of a second wireless network;
• first switch the media device and a speaker device from the first channel of the first wireless network to the clean second channel of the second wireless network based on the first determination that the audio stream is received over the HDMI/ARC interface and the second determination that the network loading of the first channel of the first wireless network exceeds the predetermined threshold;
• in response to the first switching, transmitting, by the first transceiver, the received audio stream over the clean second channel of the second wireless network to the speaker device;
• third determine that a switching condition exits for switching the media device and the speaker device from the clean second channel of the second wireless network to the first channel of the first wireless network;
• and
• second switch the media device and the speaker device from the clean second channel of the second wireless network to the first channel of the first wireless network during an absence of the audio stream from the display device.

A non-transitory computer-readable device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising:

• first determining that an audio stream is received from a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)/Audio Return Channel (ARC) interface of a display device;
• second determining that a network loading of a first channel of a first wireless network exceeds a predetermined threshold of a latency or a bandwidth;
• identifying a clean second channel of a second wireless network;
• first switching the computing device and a speaker device from the first channel of the first wireless network to the clean second channel of the second wireless network based on the first determination that the audio stream is received from the HDMI/ARC interface of the display device and the second determination that the network loading of the first channel of the first wireless network exceeds the predetermined threshold;
• in response to the first switch, transmitting, by a first transceiver of the computing device, the received audio stream over the clean second channel of the second wireless network to the speaker device;
• third determining that a switching condition exists for switching the computing device and the speaker device from the clean second channel of the second wireless network to the first channel of the first wireless network;
• and
• second switching the computing device and the speaker device from the clean second channel of the second wireless network to the first channel of the first wireless network during an absence of the audio stream from the display device.