Kodi and tv remote
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I did buy a flirc dongle for my Pi3 to control Kodi with my tv remote.
With my surprise I found out that on the Pi4 I can control Kodi with the tv remote without the flirc dongle.
How is this possible? I don't think that the Pi4 has a built in ir receiver, so maybe the remote control signals are passed from the tv to the Pi4 through the hdmi cable? -
Probably by using CEC.
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@mitu Is this adapter built in the TV?
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@saccublenda It's not an adapter - it's a communication protocol between the TV and the Pi.
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@mitu Yes but it needs a "controller/adapter" to "send and receive remote key presses to and from your television". Is this controller built in the TV?
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All modern televisions and AV-receivers support HDMI-CEC, which is a technology that allows devices to talk with each other over the HDMI cable. Kodi comes with libCEC (CEC abstraction and interface library from Pulse-Eight) which allows control of the Kodi input over the standard TV remote that comes with your TV. As buttons are pressed the remote command is sent via the HDMI cable to your Kodi device.
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@mitu I then wonder why it wasn't working with the Pi3...
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@saccublenda
Was having the same issue ...
Just unplug your tv for like 10min ...
then plug it back in and try again ;) hope it helps for me it did. -
@shavecat You mean if I unplug the tv from the Pi3 for 10 mins and then plug it back the remote would work on Kodi also on the Pi3?
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@saccublenda
unplug your tv from the power for ten min' then plug it back in.
U need to have your Anynet +hdmi on your tv on ofcurse :)
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