I had mine working for a long time and it still works if the pi 4 is the only thing plugged into the (samsung) TV, but now I have a soundbar in the ARC hdmi port, and can't get it to work. Plugging in a game console breaks it too.
Would love to have both sound and a remote.
Having a good cable is necessary but it's not sufficient and unplugging your TV for 10 minutes does work sometimes, but it's less than ideal.
How do we figure this out?
You can ssh into my pi4 if you want to
Hey,
it worked for me the first time I booted the pi 4, but after turning the samsung off and back on a little later, not working anymore.
I think samsung cec and/or the cec library are just not that sturdy. I had tried messing with some libcec stuff a while ago and gave up.
It might just some intermittent thing that eventually works if you unplug the cable or reboot enough times, sorry people that bought new cables.
Try different combinations of power cycling (really unplugging) your tv and the pi.
has anyone tried `hdmi_force_hotplug=1` in config.txt?
edit:
I've been having better luck now with `hdmi_force_hotplug=1`
But I need to test having the TV off for a few hours then turning it on again
