[mythtv-users] Using TV remote to control MythTV frontend on Raspberry Pi

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Jeff,

Tuesday, September 12, 2017, 11:17:30 PM, you wrote:

> On 12/09/17 22:38, Peter Bennett wrote:
>> CEC supports device types that determine what commands are available
>> CEC_DEVICE_TYPE_TV =0,
>> CEC_DEVICE_TYPE_RECORDING_DEVICE =1,
>> CEC_DEVICE_TYPE_RESERVED =2,
>> CEC_DEVICE_TYPE_TUNER =3,
>> CEC_DEVICE_TYPE_PLAYBACK_DEVICE =4,
>> CEC_DEVICE_TYPE_AUDIO_SYSTEM =5

>> We are using PLAYBACK, so that the play, pause, fast forward, rewind
>> buttons are available.
>> If a different profile was selected, different buttons may work, but
>> those may not. Unfortunately it is hard coded into MythTV. Would it be
>> useful to be able to change it? Which profile would you use if you could
>> change it?

> I imagine that this is all TV-specific, so it would probably be best to
> be able to change it to any one of those.

> Looking at the cec-client source, it seems to default to
> CEC_DEVICE_TYPE_RECORDING_DEVICE

>> I do not understand the question about which input the TV uses.

> When my (Samsung) TV starts, it sees the RPi connected via HDMI and
> defaults to the basic HDMI input. I have to use the source button on the
> remote to switch to the HDMI-CEC input so that the remote buttons are
> passed to MythTV.

> Therefore, it would be useful for MythTV to tell the TV to switch to
> that input automatically. This seems to be possible from cec-client, so
> I could probably add it to my frontend launch script, but if MythTV
> could handle it, it would be more convenient.

> Regards

> Jeff


Can't you set the default mode on your TV for your hdmi port. I seem
to remember I can do so on my Philips TV 

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