Using a Logitech harmony universal remote. Works with all. Just in case 
The situation has improved lately but it is not fixed completely. I get random CEC crashes, sometimes it lasts for couple of weeks, sometimes only days. When this occures I power cycle my Vero 4K+ and it works again. I gave up on nagging here because I see that you are trying but still no joy. I just dont know why this was never an issue before and since more than 1 year ago it cant be reliably fixed. This is the only issue that stops me from the upgrade to Vero V (and the price 
). I have a Vero 4K and 4K+ with Samsung QLED TVs and Samsung Soundbars.
The problem does not affect Vero V as reported here by others. The problem is essentially that AML no longer support the SoC in the Vero 4K + and focus on newer chips. We didnāt want to leave the older chips behind in Kodi version and playback capabilities so managed to port support on to the newer software from AML, but this has clearly caused issues with CEC.
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Just a little update. With the OSMC 2024 May the problem in my case is gone and all is working and I didnt get any hangs anymore. It was stable for 2-3 months. Yesterday I replaced it with a Vero V and I hope Vero V will also work flawlessly. Thanks Sam for your effort!
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Unfotunately, this issue, as well as the impossibility to use the picture browsing without crashes has forced me to sell Vero 4K+ and figure out how to move to something like Librelec + NUC or something more stable.
Thanks for the follow up on this topic and the wfforta to tey to solve it.
Iām not aware of a picture crashing issue. Can you give me some steps on how to reproduce this issue? From your posts in 2021 I can see you had some network issues. Did you ever resolve them?
Hi Sam. Thank you for your interest. My photo library is very large. A lot of folders and some of them have hundreds of pictures. This means that normally when I browse the library, thumbnail creation happens. I guess that thereās something like a memory leak in the thumbnail process or in the browsing process that causes the sad face and immediate reboot.
I have tried to deactivate the fetching of metadata and to let the system to create thumbnails waiting, but seems to be associated to browsinglet me know if you want me to capture a log during one of this crashes. Iāll try during weekend (the vero is now in his box)
Regards,
Javier.
Chuck me a log and Iāll take a look. It could be that the system is running out of memory. On Vero V we doubled the RAM
Without a log I am speculating.
Iāve been following this thread since 2022 - back then, the same CEC headache happened to my Vero 4K+ after an update, so I had to switch back to version 2022-03-08. Which had been working without any issues since, until a couple weeks ago, when my kid managed to upgrade the system. On this new version (2024-11-04) the CEC issue manifested itself again immediately. So I had to roll back to the safe 2022-03-08.
Just wanted to post here to let my fellow Vero4K+ owners know, that it still might not be worth upgrading and itās safer to stay on version 2022-03-08.