@franklesniak said in How to Set the HDMI CEC Name After Deprecation of the cec_osd_name Parameter?:

I don't believe this works anymore. So my question is: how do I set RetroPie's HDMI CEC display name as I was previously? Is this possible?

I guess depending on the utility used, there should be an option for the 'osd display name', for instance cec-ctl has it with the -o parameter.

@sleve_mcdichael said in CEC control - Pi turns TV on when booted:

echo 'standby 0.0.0.0' | cec-client -s -d 1

Thanks @sleve_mcdichael. I did try both. It's odd that I can turn it on, but not off. But I've tried both methods. I appreciate the assist though. Maybe someone else will chime in.

@mitu FYI for the time being, I have a partial workaround to execute commands to stop and start emulationstation via a remote.

@mitu said in Game Mode on/off via CEC? ARC?:

@Dochartaigh said in Game Mode on/off via CEC? ARC?:

My question is if we can make the Pi turn on "Game Mode" on our TV's with CEC or ARC? (then off when we're done playing it?)

I'm not sure if that can be done dynamically, but you can set 'game mode' via config.txt - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Input-Lag/#set-tv-to-game-mode

Thanks for the link! Tried that on my Zero 2 W and RP4 and didn't work so don't know if that's an issue with the software or whatever.. or I also researched my TCL TV which has a history of firmware updates messing with some CEC protocols... so who knows. I would test it on another flatscreen I have but that's a TCL brand too ;)

@arcuza hi, you can add this configuration to config.txt:
hdmi_ignore_cec=1

Source: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/video.md

@weissnix4711 said in HDMI CEC Remote support, seems there but not working:

Hey, sorry for bumping this old thread, but could I get an update on this?

There hasn't been any new code added for CEC support.

@ramco That's weird, I never saw a TV/Remote who shuts down Kodi or the Raspberry, the power button is never assigned to o CEC button, it should only turn off the TV.
Probably it is your TV brand, never heard about that one. Each TV brand as it's own CEC implementation and name, yours might be one of the weakest.
You said you are running Kodi 18.2, Kodi is currently in version 18.8, update it and check, although I doubt it will fix your problem.

I did some googling and found a (probably unsupported, but still) Python script:

https://github.com/dillbyrne/es-cec-input

I tried it, it worked, when I started it manually. There's noticeable input-lag, compared to the Kodi implementation, no way that would be useable in a game, but it does the job. Unfortunatelly, I couldn't make it reboot-proof, the @reboot statement in crontab worked, the script was running according to ps, but it did not work. Even more, running it via crontab resulted it in Kodi no longer accepting CEC input either. So I removed it from crontab and am no longer using it.

Is there anyone around here with experience with that or a similar script?

Thanks!

I can see a new entry on my TV saying "RetroPie ES", but the remote doesn't work OOTB neither is possible to configure it via "Configure Input". In either the pré-compiled one and the custom one. This is just to confirm if it is working or not, it can be my TV, although CEC works fine in other programs.

If you turn on the cec function on your pi and put on Anynet+ (on Samsung tv's) with auto power on, you can see if the TV turns on when you power your pi.

@mitu
Alright sounds good to me i'll do that then.

Thanks

Hello fellows.

I would like to say thanks! The cec-utils package is pretty handy. The udev rules are perfect!

The only addition I've made on my arcade build was adding a turn off monitor.sh script in RetroPie Menu.

#!/bin/bash # turn off monitor.sh ################# # Actually puts the monitor on stand by mode. echo standby 0 | cec-utils -s -d 1

any luck with this?

having never used or tested the script, i can only give some random thoughts for your troubleshooting consideration:

did you try adding the script to crontab so it runs at boot time?

crontab -e
@reboot nohup ./home/pi/RetroPie/scripts/es-cec-input.py
(note there is a typo in the script comment "hohup")

double-check your locale & keyboard layout is correct:
Raspi-Config > Localisation Options > Localisation Options
Raspi-Config > Localisation Options > Change Keyboard Layout

i had some strange effect from my keyboard until i set these correctly
(en_US.UTF-8 / Generic Logitech Keyboard)

what is the remote make/model, and how is it connected?

should the vendor id/model match up with what is stored in?:
/etc/udev/rules.d/40-uinput.rules

make sure there are no unsupported keys mapped in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
https://github.com/dillbyrne/es-cec-input#supported-keyboard-keys

sorry if this wasn't very helpful, i'm just a measly end-user with not much experience

@dankcushions That's a good call.

Supplementary would be my preference then, but @herb_fargus 's comment might actually settle it, then.

Thanks @Fruitybit , I forgot about that. That will work fine for me.

I am not aware of crashes because of CEC, but I know that some joysticks, in rare cases can make Kodi crash. Try running Kodi without any controllers attached and if the problem remains, post you Kodi log.