A couple of questions on the remote

[Giovanni_Garcea]

@Phydeaux

Ok, well, concentrate on getting CEC working first and remote button remapping second.

So, it seems like CEC implementation by the various A/V manufacturers has been a a bit spotty since it was introduced, but if your gear is less than perhaps 5 years or so it’s likely this will work.

You need to have CEC turned on and correctly configured in your TV and your receiver menus.

I don’t have a receiver being controlled this way, just the Vero and a TV, so I don’t have the experience there. But I assume that you have an HDMI cable between the Vero and the receiver and another from the receiver to the TV. In which case, have you tested CEC compatibility between those two?

If you search here you’ll find various threads about CEC troubleshooting. It’s fairly sensitive to losing connection, not so much in day to day use but when setting up your cables and having devices in various states until they all become aware of each other. Try actually disconnecting the TV, receiver and Vero from the power mains for several minutes, then power them up one at a time.

In my case I like to use the TV remote to do everything and the transport and directional buttons are passed through to Kodi from the TV.

If you’re wanting to use the Kodi remote, even better. In the CEC settings you can set the screensaver to turn the TV off. And then pressing any key on the remote will power the TV back on. I guess it would be a good idea to have a button assigned to power off the TV instead of just walking away and letting the screensaver turn things off.

Cheers,

Robert

CEC works without major problems. I can control the Vero and the receiver volume with the TV remote or alternatively with the Vero remote.

The only problem so far with CEC are the CEC kodi built in commands that don’t work out of the box, at least not all of them:

the activate source command worked right away, great.
the cec standby didn’t work until I modified the configuration following the tips from this thread: Control TV ON/Standby/Toggle using CEC Kodi built-in functions - #13 by Zissou
the cec toggle command only turn the system OFF but doesn’t work when trying to toggle back to ON.

I made some progress, by adding a cec standby command in the power menu of my skin (Titan Beta), so actually the turn off method is solved. I still haven’t figured out the turn on, I didn’t know that screen saver exit turns on receiver and TV, thanks!. I’ll play with it tonight.