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Hello all,
I ditched using a Kodi build and started fresh using Openelec. Wow, the difference in speed is amazing. Screw using a build.
Anyhow, I am using a Pi B+. When Kodi loads, It shows that the CEC Pulsar Control is enabled and connected(I forget the wording).
When I try the TV remote(Sceptre brand TV) nothing happens. I am not sure what to do next.
Please help.
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Is the CEC component in the TV actually enabled? (Have to ask...)
Kodi defaults CEC to HDMI port 1 on the TV, perhaps you used a different port on your TV?
"CEC Pulsar Control"
Pulsar?
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I may b wrong on the pulsar part but I have been through the settings on the TV and cant find controls for it. It does have 3 HDMI ports and port 3 is MHL compatible. The manual says that if I use port 3 it will control a Roku box but that is all it says. Perhaps it is Pulse 8 the kodi box says. I dont have access to that room now as the kids are sleeping.
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Pulse 8 sounds right.
Have you looked in Kodis peripherals settings?
Also different tv manufacturers use different names for CEC. Try Google, I have never heard of sceptre TVs
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2017-07-30, 04:35
(This post was last modified: 2017-07-30, 04:35 by plumpkatt1.)
I did have a look in the peripherals but nothing wrong stood out at me. The TV has very little settings to change and mentions nothing about CEC or anything similar. Is it possible the TV dont support CEC? The manual doesn't say too much other than you can control a Roku Device as long as you use the HDMI3/MHL port on the TV. In the TV manual it does say the remote follows the Sony standard whatever that means?
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I have 3 Insignia (Best Buy house brand) tv's, each with a Raspberry Pi attached running LibreElec Jarvis or Krypton.
All work with CEC. However, it's called "INLink" in the settings, and it has to be enabled on the tv for it to work. I found this out by trial and error.
My Sony tv calls it something else, I forget what. It also has to be enabled in Kodi.
Your tv may- or may not- support CEC. Or it may be buried in the settings under some obscure name like on my sets.
Worse come to worse- you can always buy a FLIRC transmitter and then just set up another remote for the Pi.
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And OpenElec (or other variants like LibreElec and OSMC) are more cut-down and streamlined versions, with just enough OS underneath them to run Kodi, and that optimised to do so, at least in the case of the *Elec ones (LibreElec is a spin-off fork from OpenElec).
OSMC is slightly different as it's based off Debian rather than Raspbian, and also has more OS underneath it and can be expanded on (you can use apt-get and suchlike to install packages onto OSMC, which you cannot do on *Elec). They all work well, and can be a much simpler "plug and play" solution if all you want is Kodi than trying to install it onto a generic OS which isn't optimised for it and will contain other packages and services which take up both storage space and processor time when you may not want or need them to.
