I'm going by this information for the NUCs
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us…l-nuc-kits.html
and looking only at the onboard CEC section.
How good is the Pulse8 adapter I've found mixed views about it whilst driving myself insane about CEC.
The onboard CEC is very specific [read as - limited / useless / crippled] - it is bios based. There is a WMI exposure to the operating system via ACPI. You will not see it in LE when you start LE. I have been working on CEC / HA both in a LE development capacity, home automation and commercial automation for a few years now. Yup - CEC - leaves a lot to be desired. The Kodi implementation of CEC isn’t too bad - doesn’t do everything but depends on the special/corner cases you are trying to solve. Note: LE/Kodi does turn my TV and AVR on and off - but not via CEC. Note: I also don’t use libCEC but use the kernel CEC.
But answering the question around the internal NUC “Pulse8” - it works fine. Caveats on CEC based on my commentary above -
- I’d love it to make toast - but it ain’t going to.
The last sentence copied from https://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au…l-nuc-kits.html gives it away