Infrared Remote for Rasbmc

@Deadmanza: If you want more details just send a PM to AVSupply. He is famous for his hands-on support!
 
Deadmanza said:
It is, does that work? Please explain how?
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In the HDMI protocol it is called CEC, where by a device connected to another device via HDMI, can control certain functions on that device. For example, a TV can control the volume on a Audio/Video receiver connected to it via HDMI. So you use the TV's volume controls to control the AV Receiver. Also if you power on the TV, it will power on the AV Receiver for you, to make sure the sound can be output to it.

So much like that, the Pi support CEC out of the box, unlike most GPU cards for computers. So it can be controlled via the TV. As long as you switch the TV to the HDMI port connected to the raspberry pi, and you have XBMC installed with teh CEC plugin, it works out of the box. RaspBMC should already support this.

I know this works, because I did it for my parents, and was going to buy extra remote and receiver, when I figured oh wait the TV remote control works just fine. Parents are also very happy with that.
 
Tinuva said:
In the HDMI protocol it is called CEC, where by a device connected to another device via HDMI, can control certain functions on that device. For example, a TV can control the volume on a Audio/Video receiver connected to it via HDMI. So you use the TV's volume controls to control the AV Receiver. Also if you power on the TV, it will power on the AV Receiver for you, to make sure the sound can be output to it.

So much like that, the Pi support CEC out of the box, unlike most GPU cards for computers. So it can be controlled via the TV. As long as you switch the TV to the HDMI port connected to the raspberry pi, and you have XBMC installed with teh CEC plugin, it works out of the box. RaspBMC should already support this.

I know this works, because I did it for my parents, and was going to buy extra remote and receiver, when I figured oh wait the TV remote control works just fine. Parents are also very happy with that.
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Awesome, going to test this tonight :)

If it works will be super chuffed, if not will contact AVsupply.

Thanks for all the help guys!
 
My parents have a LG 32" which this works on.
I used it on my Sony Bravia 2 40" which it worked on.

So basically, even if the TV is 4 years old, it will work.

Rasp Pi used on above was the 512MB Type B, with OpenElec installed. It already included the CEC plugin for XBMC.
 
Tinuva said:
My parents have a LG 32" which this works on.
I used it on my Sony Bravia 2 40" which it worked on.

So basically, even if the TV is 4 years old, it will work.

Rasp Pi used on above was the 512MB Type B, with OpenElec installed. It already included the CEC plugin for XBMC.
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Brilliant, running the latest version of RasBMC so hoping it already has the CEC plugin installed.
 
I was just trying to figure out the model of TV, this will work perfectly.
 
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