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Pulse Eight HDMI CEC - Port?
rebelkiller:
Hello there,
I bought the adaptor mentioned above.
I need help understanding ports and pipes in LMCE.
My MD ist connected to an AVR input, as well as my PS3.
The output of the AVR is connected to the TV (all via HDMI).
My actual channel setup in webadmin is as follows:
0000 TV
2000 AVR
2100 HDMI adaptor
2200 PS3
- Does the HDMI adaptor need an address setting?
- what about address setting Nr. 5 (instead 0) as mentioned in the the libcec documentation, when HTPC is connected to an Avr.
Thanks!
Bernd
phenigma:
--- Quote from: rebelkiller on January 22, 2015, 09:09:12 am ---I bought the adaptor mentioned above.
I need help understanding ports and pipes in LMCE.
--- End quote ---
The pipes in lmce and ports/channel values in CEC are mutually exclusive and not specifically related, but all are required for proper operation.
--- Quote from: rebelkiller on January 22, 2015, 09:09:12 am ---My MD ist connected to an AVR input, as well as my PS3.
The output of the AVR is connected to the TV (all via HDMI).
My actual channel setup in webadmin is as follows:
0000 TV
2000 AVR
2100 HDMI adaptor
2200 PS3
- Does the HDMI adaptor need an address setting?
- what about address setting Nr. 5 (instead 0) as mentioned in the the libcec documentation, when HTPC is connected to an Avr.
--- End quote ---
Good question. The values you are entering into webadmin are 'Physical Addresses' on the CEC bus. The number '5' you are referring to is a 'Logical Address' within the CEC bus and is automatically assigned by the television to the AVR on the CEC bus.
If you have the above values in your webadmin settings for the CEC devices then you now need to connect the AV pipes for the devices in the Connections screen of the AV Devices setup. I'd be more specific but I'm not at a system atm.
I'm assuming your MD is connected to the HDMI Adaptor (pulse eight). The adaptor can be given the address of your MD/Adaptor. I don't recall if this is required off the top of my head, I'll double check when I'm at my systems later on.
hth.
J.
rebelkiller:
I need help to get this working. I followed the instructions in the wiki.
I plugged in the HDMI-CEC-adaptor (in my diskless MD) and manually created "CEC-Adaptor" under my MD. "CEC Embedded Transmit" and "HDMI-CEC Remote" have been created by LMCE after that.
Then after a reload I created "Generic HDMI-CEC TV", "Generic HDMI-CEC Audio (AVR)" and "PS3/4 (HDMI-CEC)" manually.
MD is connected to AVR (input), PS3 is connected to AVR (input) and TV is connected to AVR (output).
The channel configuration is as shown in post #1.
Problem:
- MD is not shown in Viera link menu on the TV
- Remote (Panasonic) does not do anything
What I did:
- changed HDMI cables
- connected PulseEight directly between TV and MD (without AVR).
- tried different channels/ports in web admin
- checked, that "CEC-Adaptor" has the correct COM-Port in web-admin
How can I debug this?
Any hints?
B.
phenigma:
--- Quote from: rebelkiller on February 02, 2015, 05:12:25 pm ---Problem:
- MD is not shown in Viera link menu on the TV
- Remote (Panasonic) does not do anything
--- End quote ---
My MD is not shown in my Viera link menu either, and my panasonic remote does nothing. I *do* have control of everything (tv/avr/ps4) from my MD, even though it doesn't show on the tv. At some point an update to libcec may fix this but they are still dealing with a lot of fringe cases.
My VIZIO tv works perfectly and shows the MD and the remote does work.
--- Quote from: rebelkiller on February 02, 2015, 05:12:25 pm ---How can I debug this?
--- End quote ---
You can disable the cec adaptor and then run the cec-client command line tool provided by pulse-eight and pastebin some output of trying some commands. If you catch me in irc I can help guide you with the client tool a little.
J.
totallymaxed:
--- Quote from: rebelkiller on January 22, 2015, 09:09:12 am ---Hello there,
I bought the adaptor mentioned above.
I need help understanding ports and pipes in LMCE.
My MD ist connected to an AVR input, as well as my PS3.
The output of the AVR is connected to the TV (all via HDMI).
My actual channel setup in webadmin is as follows:
0000 TV
2000 AVR
2100 HDMI adaptor
2200 PS3
- Does the HDMI adaptor need an address setting?
- what about address setting Nr. 5 (instead 0) as mentioned in the the libcec documentation, when HTPC is connected to an Avr.
Thanks!
Bernd
--- End quote ---
Hi Bernd,
We've found the following in our experience with lib-cec & CEC control in general;
- Not all TV's respond or work with HDMI-CEC. Its possible that your Panasonic is one of these.
- Do as Phenigma suggests and use lib-sec's terminal based tools to see if your TV's responds.
- Use lib-sec's terminal tools with another HDMI equipped TV and see if that responds.
If you get no response from either TV based on above tests then it cold be that your Pulse-8 is 'dead' - return it for a replacement (we've had two die on us - but it is pretty rare I have to say).
All the best
Andy
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