Re:The smallest and worst HDMI display
by blauditore on Thursday March 31, 2022 @06:06PM
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I have the same issue with my XBox: It gets turned on by the TV (without me wanting this), but fails to turn on or off the TV (which would actually be useful).
Re:The smallest and worst HDMI display
by brokenmachine on Friday April 01, 2022 @12:57AM
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You can get a special HDMI cable with the CEC cables disconnected to stop that.
CEC won't work at all then of course, but it will fix that problem.
I've never seen a device that supported CEC where use of it wasn't toggled inside a menu. Both sides of the wire need to accept it.
Re:The smallest and worst HDMI display
by brokenmachine on Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:01PM
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I've seen millions of comments on AV forums from Apple TV users having problems with CEC.
I don't have an Apple TV. Does it have a setting to disable CEC?
TVs usually have an option to disable (i.e. ignore) it though, at least every one I've owned/helped someone with has.
I can disable CEC on the TV, but of course I want the TV to turn on when I wake up a device. I just want to be able to turn off the TV and have it not turn off the receiver. Picky, I know, but I gathered that we’re deep in “first world problems” here.
Sounds like there is a market for a CEC firewall box. Something $1 ESP8266 based you could configure with a phone/laptop over the air in visual way (webpage) to pick an d choose what can pass in what direction, maybe even with ability to add simple scripts triggered by particular messages. ~$5 BOM ~$15 retail.
Re:The smallest and worst HDMI display
by brokenmachine on Sunday April 03, 2022 @10:06PM
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I'd buy one.
I have almost the opposite problem. Any time I turn on my TV and receiver to use another device (often my Nintendo Switch), the Apple TV somehow wakes up and then switches my receiver's input to itself. (My receiver is my HDMI switcher and has a single HDMI output to my TV.) This is a very annoying problem, and is the only reason I still need to have the receiver's remote nearby.
Another unrelated but incredibly annoying problem I have with this whole setup is that it's essentially impossible to play music through my receiver with my AppleTV without the TV being on. Turning off the TV will, of course, turn off the receiver too.