CEC TV remote not working on vero (But does work on Pi)

You could try my remote.xml as a starting point:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7826218/Forum%20attachments/remote.xml

Place it in .kodi/userdata/keymaps

You might need to right click and choose to save as a file to stop your browser displaying it, or you could try downloading it directly in place with wget:

cd /home/osmc/.kodi/userdata/keymaps
wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7826218/Forum%20attachments/remote.xml

It was written with a Samsung TV in mind and so far has worked on two completely different models of Samsung. Among other things it does:

Map back function to the return button instead of the exit button, and map exit to the Exit button.

Outside video playback map Red to jump to home screen, Yellow to context menu and Blue to Info.

During video playback map Red to Codec Info, Green to Video settings, Yellow to Audio settings, Blue to Info, and return to 7 second backwards step.

It also tweaks some mappings in music visualisations and on screen keyboard. I find it works very well but havenā€™t tried it with anything other than Samsung - but it may be useful as a starting point to create your own configuration.

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CEC just stopped working again after two days. Here are my log files. I didnā€™t know which one you need, so I uploaded everything. http://paste.osmc.io/ifimobuqob

Iā€™m using the same HDMI cable that worked flawlessly on my Pi since Raspbmc, so I donā€™t think itā€™s the culprit here.
Iā€™m pretty sure after rebooting itā€™ll be fine again, but something still seems to be broken.

Cool! Iā€™ll try that.

Hi

Just a heads up that our HDMI cable supplier have come back and said that the HDMI cables should support CEC, so itā€™s more likely this is a fault.

Our future shipments have a CEC compatible HDMI cable in the box (have checked)

Sam

Can confirm supplied cable also does not work on my BluRay player (as well as Pi and vero).

Is it possible for you add a menu option in OSMC settings that allows user to change CEC name from default of ā€œKodiā€?
I would like to use a Pi and Vero on same AV amp but at the moment this is not possible because they are both called the same name (Kodi).
I tried to search how to do change name from e.g a .xml file but no luck.

Cheers
Steve

I will work on a way to make the CEC name unique

S

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Hah! I posted about my CEC problems while drinking my morning tea. By the time I went to check on Vero, it had installed some updates, one of which fixed my problem!

With the latest RC2 OSMC update, my CEC problems was solved!
I did not use the hdmi cable that was shipped with the Vero.

@steveE

in userdata dir / peripheralsettings/ .xml file

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Very pleased with the RC2, it solved the problem with my Sonyā€™s CEC remote.
I was not using the HDMI cable that shipped with the Vero.

:+1:

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