[mythtv-users] CEC support on Raspberry Pi 3

[Peter Bennett]

On 07/09/2016 08:57 AM, Matthew Zimmerman wrote:
> So I have a Raspberry Pi 3 running mythfrontend 0.28 on raspbian
> jessie with which overall works beautifully, but the icing on the cake
> would be to get CEC functionality working so I can control
> mythfrontend with the TV remote (definitely a wife-acceptance-factor!)
>
> 2016-07-09 08:38:06.693291 C  mythfrontend version: fixes/0.28
> [v0.28-32-g6eff083] www.mythtv.org <http://www.mythtv.org>
> ---- SNIP ------
> 2016-07-09 08:38:08.833406 I  CECAdapter: Found 1 CEC devices(s).
> 2016-07-09 08:38:08.833503 I  CECAdapter: Device 1: path 'Raspberry
> Pi' com port 'RPI' SELECTED
> 2016-07-09 08:38:08.833522 I  CECAdapter: Trying to open device
> Raspberry Pi (RPI).
> 2016-07-09 08:38:08.834810 I  CECAdapter: connection opened
> 2016-07-09 08:38:09.158714 I  CECAdapter: registering new CEC client -
> v3.0.1
> 2016-07-09 08:38:09.910458 E  CECAdapter: AllocateLogicalAddresses -
> failed to allocate device '0', type 'playback device'
> 2016-07-09 08:38:09.910497 E  CECAdapter: failed to find a free
> logical address for the client
> 2016-07-09 08:38:09.910608 E  CECAdapter: failed to register the new
> CEC client - cannot allocate the requested device types
> 2016-07-09 08:38:09.910679 E  CECAdapter: Failed to open device.
> 2016-07-09 08:38:09.910695 E  CECAdapter: failed to register a CEC client
> 2016-07-09 08:38:11.336293 I  CECAdapter: Closing down CEC.
>
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi states that CEC support
> should work in this case.  This isn't a hardware thing because
> cec-util works beautifully.
>
> How can I debug this further?  I'm not shy of writing some code to fix
> it, although my C is not great.
>
> Thanks for this working as well as it does!
>
>
I had the CEC working perfectly a couple of months ago. I will look into
this to see if something has broken.

Peter

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