CEC Settings Pulse Eight Adapter Philips 6007K

hugosboss · January 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM

Hello!

I have an issue with my Libreelec 12.0 LE, Pulse Eight Adapter and my TV + AVR.

If I move a certain rhythm with the tv remote control via cec in one direction, it goes forwards instead of 1 2, when it should just go 1.
I assumed that the repeat time might be responsible for this.

Therefore, I tried to set the repeat time for my PULS 8 CEC adapter to Gui max under peripheral_data.
Since the problem still persisted, I tried to change this under peripheral_data via SSH. Unfortunately, libreelec seems to ignore these changes.

I know I use a Bluethooth remote control and the problem is solved.
But why does changing the xml file under peripheral_data do nothing?
Any other solution Ideas?

HarryH · January 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM

There are 2 different settings which are related to your case:

Remote button press repeat rate (ms)
At this interval, the button is automatically repeated as soon as you press the
for longer than the following setting
Remote button press delay before repeating (ms)

So play a bit with the second setting first. For my TV this combination works better than the default values:

Remote button press repeat rate (ms): 100ms
Remote button press delay before repeating (ms): 200

Regarding the xml file, please install a recent nightly build of LE12. There was an attempt to support CEC at both HDMI ports of the RPi4/5 at the same time. But this had some culprits and was reverted after release of 12.0.1. This patch wasn't restricted to the RPis.
In addition, KODI must be stopped before changing such settings files via CLI, otherwise the values may be overwritten by the running process.

hugosboss · January 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM

Thank you for your info that helps me a little bit to where to start looking.

Additional thing so far I noticed:
chown root:root usb_2548_1002_CEC_Adapter.xml
chmod 444 usb_2548_1002_CEC_Adapter.xml
does not work against a reboot. I have no idea why but the file is resetted every time after a reboot.

I will try upgrading system first.

**mglae** · January 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM

Did you stop kodi with systemctl stop kodi before changing the files?

hugosboss · January 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM

After running systemctl stop kodi, editing the .xml file, and restarting Kodi, the file remained as I had modified it.

Simply starting Kodi did not reset the file.

I’m not entirely sure if the file was reset after I accessed the GUI settings for the CEC adapter or after a system reboot.

Values outside the GUI-supported range were displayed as 0 in the GUI settings for the CEC adapter.

Next time, I’ll try changing the value and see if it feels different without checking the GUI settings for the CEC adapter.

Off-topic: This CEC issue also occurs with my stock Fire TV 4K stick.

HarryH · January 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM

Quote from hugosboss

Off-topic: This CEC issue also occurs with my stock Fire TV 4K stick.

Then it directs to an issue of your TV/Remote control/Cabling/AVR ... - not to KODI itself.

Background: The remote control signal is received by your TV and translated to CEC. If the translation is faulty, then it occurs at all devices do you trying to control. Sometimes a firmware update of the TV or AVR is required to fix that.

Common solution for typical CEC hiccups: Make all involved devices powerless at the same time for some minutes. This helps to reset the CEC settings.

hugosboss · January 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM

I agree that Kodi is 100% not the main issue.

The AVR etc. is connected via Master Slave power stripe. So they should start form zero everytime?

The AVR is old. The TV is old (Philips before they sold their TV department because of their bad software).

I was just hoping that i can confige Kodi in a way that minimize the faults of the TV.

reboot Libreelec and/ systemctl restart Kodi is causing a resetting of the XML File.

Kodi systemctl stop /start does not cause reset the xml File.

I tried setting it to absurd numbers like 100.000ms but it felt the remote felt as responsible as with 1000 or gui max values.
Is it just me? 100.000 ms should feel like its freezing?