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[sirwio]

What is the current status on this. I have searched the forums and there appeared to have been discussion and tries to get this working on Samsung TV's in August 2011 when the hdmi-cec support was implemented.

Basically what was tried at that time was to override the type of the hdmi-cec device reported by the STB to be of type "recording device" and not as a "tuner".

I had similar problems with the play/stop/pause buttons in the vompclient project for the raspberry pi on my Samsung tv. The fix in that project was simply to change the type announced from tuner to recording device. That change made the buttons functional again. Forum thread where the problem was discussed can be found below.

http://forum.loggytr...msg3709#msg3709

I tried the same approach by modifying the enigma/lib/driver/hdmi_cec.cpp to no avail as was perhaps no surprise since the same approach had been tested when the module was initially written.

But the Samsung TV does definitely support the playback buttons when the hdmi-cec device announce itself as a playback or recording device - at least when the pulse-eight libcec library is used on the raspberry pi.

Any hints on how I can proceed troubleshooting this and if there has been any other findings in this area!

[pieterg]

which stb do you have?

[sirwio]

which stb do you have?

Vu+ Ultimo.
OpenPLI updated 2013-02-11 but with the kernel demux buffer bumped to 4MB and the streaming buffer count set to 20 the resolve some issues streaming 720p channels.
The TV is a Samsung UE46ES5505

[pieterg]

ok, I'm asking because it might depend on the hardware (or more likely the closed hardware drivers), because I found that for some brands the drivers do respond to some cec commands by themselves.
So even if you change the type field in e2, the device might still be advertised (by the drivers) as a tuner.

I'm sure dmm does send cec messages directly from their driver, but vu+ might do the same (didn't test with vu+).