You need to have CEC turned on and correctly configured in your TV and your receiver menus. 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.
Ok, well, concentrate on getting CEC working first and remote button remapping second. It just can’t handle turning on and off the system out of the box… It is just that the Vero remote has the perfect size and number of buttons. Also the TV remote (VIZIO) does almost everything I need. I have Yatse that can do everything I need, but it is nice also to have a remote with physical buttons. Long press on the back button would bring up the power menu, so everything could be put in Standby. Pressing the center (OK) button would get the Shield out of Stand By and turn on also all the other CEC devices. Long press would make everything easy, so for now I’ll just use another remote to turn on and off the tv or think of some other methods.įYI the Shield TV remote handled this well enough. I also tried to use the callbacks addon to trigger CEC when the home window is open, but that fails miserably when kodi is already on home. I tried to call a script that in sequence goes to the home window and then send the CEC activate command, but the latency of the home button was too much.
At least I got the home button to actually behave like I was expecting by creating a gen.xml:īut I haven’t find an easy way to also turn on the TV without losing any other button functionality.