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I thought I was starting off pretty good, I was able to get the libCEC installed correctly. There is no "CEC Adapter" device listed in the System Input Devices.

I'm running Linux Mint 17.2 (ubuntu 14.04 lts)

kodi --version
15.2 Git:02e7013 Media Center Kodi
Copyright © 2005-2013 Team Kodi - http://kodi.tv

I was able to send an 'ON' command to my TV using the command line:
echo "on 0" | cec-client -s

My user has been added to the tty and dialout groups.

Output of cec-client -l
libCEC version: 3.1.0, compiled on Wed Jan 20 00:49:13 UTC 2016 by [email protected] on Linux 3.19.0-47-generic (x86_64), features: P8_USB, DRM, P8_detect, randr
Found devices: 1

device: 1
com port: /dev/ttyACM0
vendor id: 2548
product id: 1002
firmware version: 4
firmware build date: Thu Dec 6 11:15:20 2012 +0000
type: Pulse-Eight USB-CEC Adapter

If there's a similar thread please point me to it, "CEC" isn't an easy thing to search on this forum.
Much Appreciated

Permission issue ... but you did not provide the Debug Log ... make sure you are member of the dialout group

sudo adduser YOURUSER dialout
sudo reboot

Thanks for the reply, as I mentioned I have already added the user the dialout group. I went through the logs and found this entry. It looks like I have version 3.1.0, and it's looking for version 3.0, does that sound right?

09:11:26 T:140443954608064 DEBUG: SECTION:LoadDLL(libcec.so.3.0)
09:11:26 T:140443954608064 DEBUG: Loading: libcec.so.3.0
09:11:26 T:140443954608064 ERROR: Unable to load libcec.so.3.0, reason: libcec.so.3.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
09:11:26 T:140443954608064 DEBUG: Dll libcec.so.3.0 was not found in path
09:11:26 T:140443954608064 ERROR: Initialise - failed to initialise bus cec

Yeah, you are missing the correct libcec-3 package.

I removed the 3.1.0 package, reinstalled the 3.0.1 package and Kodi is now recognizing it in the logs under input devices.
I think I'm looking good now, I'll test the remote control later today.

Thanks!

Edit: It's working beautifully now. You might want to make a note on the wiki page for the supported libCEC versions. Cheers!

Could you give me step by step instructions to remove the 3.1.0 package and reinstall the 3.0.1 package?
Would greatly appreciate your help!

This worked for me:

this happens to me very time I do a sudo apt-get dist-upgrade when updating my system

all I do to get my usb-cec adaptor working again is do a sudo apt-cache showpkg libcec

which will show something like this...

Reverse Depends:
libcec3:i386,libcec 2.2
libcec3:i386,libcec 2.2
libcec:i386,libcec
libcec3,libcec 2.2
libcec3,libcec 2.2
libcec3:i386,libcec 2.2
libcec3:i386,libcec 2.2
libcec:i386,libcec
libcec3,libcec 2.2
libcec3,libcec 2.2
Dependencies:
3.1.0.1~wily - libcec3 (5 3.1.0.1~wily) libcec:i386 (0 (null))
3.0.2~wily - libcec3 (5 3.0.2~wily) libcec:i386 (0 (null))
Provides:
3.1.0.1~wily -
3.0.2~wily -
Reverse Provides:
libcec3 3.0.2~wily
libcec3 3.1.0.1~wily


look what is in the Provides list.. and for me I do a sudo apt-get install --reinstall libcec3=3.0.2~wily -

reboot kodi and it should be ok again.

I'd also recommend doing a sudo apt-mark hold libcec3 to prevent updating this package until kodi supports the new version of this library.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/18654/how-to-prevent-updating-of-a-specific-package

(2016-03-14, 16:51)Vultwulf Wrote: [ -> ]I'd also recommend doing a sudo apt-mark hold libcec3 to prevent updating this package until kodi supports the new version of this library.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/18654/how-to-prevent-updating-of-a-specific-package

thanks for the heads up Vultwulf