[mythtv-users] Maybe OT, but: CEC query

[Mark Kendall]

On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 at 15:58, John Pilkington <johnpilk222 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My "other" old laptop was looking unloved and last week I had put a
> customised 'buntu 20 on a box for my daughter to try remote group-music
> playing.
>
> So I put kubuntu on the laptop too, with MythTV ppa master as of this
> morning.  Got it doing playback after uncommenting the 0.0.0.0 in ?
> mysql.cnf and correcting a typo in the DB name.
>
> Then I found that the TV remote couldn't turn on the TV;  the power
> light just flickered.  It took me some time to locate the manual power
> switch.  After a power cycle there it's fine.
>
> Could this have anything to do with the latest commit?
>
> "Crash in libCEC on Mythfrontend GUI rebuild"

Almost certainly a coincidence. To have any effect on your TV, the
laptop would have to have a supported CEC adapter built in and even
then, as Klaas has said, the commit should not change any actual
libcec behaviour.

Regards
Mark