Irritatingly Spectrum cable chose to make their new cable box turn off the optical out when hdmi is in use. It still lights but no signal.
I bought a hdmi splitter and put that between the box and tv. Then I fed the second hdmi into a box that breaks out the audio and provides an optical out. Into that I plugged a Bluetooth transmitter. (Two other hdmi feeds to other tv’s in other rooms)
HDMI Splitter 1X4 4 Port Hub Repeater Amplifier v1.4 3D 1080p 1 in 4 out
HDMI to HDMI & SPDIF + RCA L/R Audio Extractor Converter Splitter
(To get the hdmi to spdif splitter to work its’ hdmi out must connect to a tv hdmi in. I just ran it to the tv hdmi 2 )