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Hi,
We have nowday three builtin commands for CEC (CECActivateSource, CECStandby and CECToggleState).
It would be very usefull to add some more possibilities like adding somme parameters in order to addressing a particular equipment (TV, AMP, VP, ALL, ...)
and why not volumeUp or VolumeDown...
Thank's a lot.
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If I understand correctly, and something like that could possibly allow a smartphone/tablet remote to control the TV's CEC volume, then that would be really awesome and I am all for it :D
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Yes, that it!
With a smartphone/ tablet you would be able although to switch on the TV or only the amp in order to listen music, and easily.
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Thank's for this answer, but this is json api commmands based on builtin functions...
You cannot command amp directly with this.
Having the possibility to do something like CECActivateSource(TV), or CECActivateSource(Ampli) or CECStandby(All) or some new commands like CECVolumeUp(Ampli) would be fantastic.
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I think he's just listing related links for anyone interested.
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Is there any news about it?
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I would really like to have a separate function CECInactivateSource as a complement to the already existing CECActivateSource.
My reason---and I believe there will be others with a similar setup---is that I am running Kodi on a Raspberry Pi (OpenElec 6.0), which I never turn off. But with the current CEC implementation, shutting down Kodi is the only way to return the active source to the TV.
My setup is as follows: Samsung TV----Teufel Corestation AVR----OpenElec 6.0 ~ ~ Yatse app
I can easily switch to Kodi by starting any media playback or manually invoking the CECActivateSource function. But for returning the active source back to the TV set I always have to fumble around with the TV remote, cycling the source back to the TV.
It would be great to just add an item in the Kodi main menu "Switch back to TV", invoking the missing function CECInactivateSource.
I am aware of the limitations of CEC mentioned by mk01, but this should not be an issue in this specific case. Kodi is running as the active source and just has to inform the system that it wants to inactivate. It is basically the same thing Kodi already does before shutting down.