Hi all,
This might actually be my first post here on the forums. I recently got interested in having my living room PC be CEC compliant. Until recently, I didn't even know what CEC was, but I was at a buddy's house and saw him grab his PS4 remote, press a button, and his TV magically switched to the proper input and woke the PS4. As soon as I got home, I furiously began googling all the googles to see if this sort of action was possible with PC. Turns out that graphics card manufacturers don't support HDMI-CEC. There are apparently a few old intel boards that are able to do this but that doesn't help my situation.
I eventually stumbled across a USB CEC Adapter from www.pulse-eight.com . It's designed specifically for Kodi users, and comes with the right software to basically have your pc turn on, boot into Kodi, and most importantly, change the input on your tv to the proper one. Beyond that you can basically control Kodi with a slew of different remotes including OEM ones apparently. Pretty awesome, but I already have a media solution.
I've seen people using some software called eventghost to add functionality to these things but no specific cases where it's being used for my use case. I have absolutely zero programming knowledge so I'm definitely out of my wheelhouse here, but I thought I'd make a post here to see if anyone had any experience/interest in this.
My goal is to press a button on my keyboard (or my xbox one for pc controller for my wife) and have the tv change inputs to the proper input. I already leave this pc running basically all the time, and it boots straight into Steam Big Picture mode already. So really I just want the tv to change inputs.
I figure this is a shot in the dark, but I might as well ask. Thanks everyone in advance!.
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Since I didn't get a bite from anyone, I'd like to just ask a question: If one gpu manufacturer made their products CEC compliant, and the other did not, would that influence your media/gaming/living room pc parts choice? I feel like there should be an interest in this and I think it's weird that it seems like i'm the only one... I'm just not that interesting or smart, so I can't be the only one.
CEC would be cool but there is a dongle to add a PC into a universal remote made by Logitech. I just do that since I don't always want my PC on the TV
Well the beauty of CEC would mean that the moment you touch that Logitech remote, your TV would switch to the correct input for the PC.
Not exactly. I have a 3 monitor array that is the main output of my GPU and the TV as a secondary. Don't desire for it to be automatic. I can understand if it is a HTPC or steam streaming box you would want it but I use the remote's scripting to to change everything including audio out from my headphones to the AV receiver.
Not sure if anyone has CEC support for GPUs. Would make sense for some use cases.
Ahhh, I understand your set up now, and you're right, that might make it more cumbersome for you. I guess the situation where I see it making the most sense is a set up where there's no universal remote that controls everything. I have a simple TV set up. I have an apple TV for streaming and I have my small form factor gaming pc. So the only reason I have to reach for the default tv remote at this point is to switch inputs (which on my samsung tv is an annoyingly slow process). I love my apple tv remote, it does everything it needs to do and nothing more. I hate remotes that are over-saturated with buttons, but I can understand the draw towards them.
I control my setup with voice :). I am curious about CEC since my Reciever and TV are CEC compatible. Might give me an idea later. Let me know if you find anything.
i'm definitely going to purchase the device from pulse-eight, it's just not in my budget atm with a new baby. Since the original post, I've had an email exchange with pulse-eight and they've confirmed that what i'm trying to accomplish is absolutely possible by using eventghost. They let me know that if I install eventghost before I install their own software called libCEC, then a plugin will automatically be added.