Posts by HarryH

  • Rpi4 + Samsung TV - No HDMI-CEC since 11.0.5/6?

    So the output looks that CEC is working at hardware and driver level. You can test some CEC commands to switch your connected TV On/Standby/Off like described here: https://pimylifeup.com/raspberrypi-hdmi-cec/

    To test if your TV passthrough the remote control keys to the RPi, simple start cec-client without any switches and look for key_press events. If that works, you only have some issues with your KODI installation/settings. That kind of issues can isolated with debug logging enabled and additional components logging is enabled for libCEC.

  • Rpi4 + Samsung TV - No HDMI-CEC since 11.0.5/6?

    If chewitt serious recommendation don‘t ends in a success, you can stop KODI and afterwards check CEC directly.

    • stop KODI
      systemctl stop kodi
    • scan CEC bus
      echo 'scan' | cec-client -s -d 1

    Because I have seen, that you also tested something regarding the 4K/60 issue in combination with your Denon AVR: Maybe you have a outdated copy of EDID data locally?

  • No categories in addon settings available

    I think the missing part is <group></group> as a wrapper for setting. Its mandatory also if you doesn‘t have more than 1 group.

  • Using TV remote to control Kodi on Pi5

    The linked thread is correct because the TV is the receiver of the IR signals and sends a button code (the duration info seems not parsed or reliable) to the RPi5 via CEC.

    Technically possible, but I don't expect this behavior on a TV:
    If the TV interprets the buttons based on how long they were held down, it may be sending a different CEC button code.

    The important part regarding the breaking change seems the Android/Google TV generation. Previous generations of SONY TVs are able to passthrough the tuning and menu keys to CEC, if you configure this in the Bravia Sync settings for external inputs.
    After switching to a newer TV of the same brand, I'm facing for the issue, that the menu keys and some other keys aren't passthrough anymore. Before it was possible to use the channel-up/down keys to navigate page wise through long listings. Now it's possible to open an additional menu for HDMI via info key and send a CEC command in behalf of the TV, but this key was also usable before directly.

    My workaround is currently to move one step to right in the movie list to focus the scroll bar and move then with the cursor keys to jump to the next page(s) faster.

    If this, that you meant with slow scrolling, perhaps you should map one of the color keys to the channel-up/down function. If not, you can only try to play a little bit with the CEC settings at System -> Input -> Peripherals.

    To check which keys are going passthrough via CEC with your TV, you can stop KODI and use the cec-client command.

    • Stop KODI
      systemctl stop kodi
    • Start the CEC-client
      cec-client

    • Press the keys on your remote control step by step and write down a list of all available keys. Here an example for cursor right:

      Code
      DEBUG:   [          189968]     SetCurrentButton right (4) D:0ms cur:17f
DEBUG:   [          189968]     key pressed: right (4) current(ff) duration(0)
    • Stop the cec-client process with CTRL-C
    • Start KODI again
      systemctl start kodi

    With that information you can make then the changes like you want to the keymap file.

    EDIT:
    I played a little bit with the settings (System -> Input -> Peripherals -> CEC Adapter) and could clarify 2 things:

    • Set „Remote button press repeat rate (ms)“ to 100ms fixes the „slow“ repeat rate compared to a IR remote control.
      Reducing "Remote button press delay before repeating (ms)" to 200 makes it even faster to switch in repeat mode (scrolling), but could be make some trouble if there is "longpress" support in the future.
    • It‘s important to switch the TV to the HDMI sub input/device -> "Kodi HDMI 1 Player" not only "HDMI 1" to get the tuning and number keys to work.

  • No HBR Audio with LSPCON - Trying to collect information

    Maybe the root cause of your 4.0 channel issue is the same like this issue:

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    RE: Only 6.1 LPCM for 7.1 sources with Raspberry Pi

    When you open a HDMI audio device on the RPi the kernel automatically chooses a channel map based on the number of channels (eg 8 in this case) and the speaker allocation from the EDID.

    The hdmi-codec driver has an ordered list, sorted by preference, and will choose the first entry that's supported by HDMI for the given number of channels and is supported by the AVR as well (all channels of that entry must also be present in the EDID speaker allocation block).

    In this table the 6.1 entry with RC…
    HiassofT
    May 2, 2024 at 11:10 AM

  • [RPi4] Argon One Case Shutdown

    Version 1.1.0 released:

    • add-on icon changed to follow LE style (thanks chewitt for providing this)
    • issue #5: fan art modified to be more generic
    • issue #4: localization for Italian added
    • localization for German added

    Edit:

    Version 1.1.1 released:

    • some typos and translation errors fixed

  • [RPi4] Argon One Case Shutdown

    chewitt ,

    I'm appreciate your offer and hasn't forgot this Thread :)

    Until now I was focused to make the technical part right. I wasn't unhappy with the original add-on icon, but it makes sense to follow a unified style.
    Shortly after I enabled the issues option at the GitHub repo yesterday, it seems there is an interest to make some cosmetic changes...

  • RPI4 + LibreELEC 12 + RemotePi

    Hi Baallrog,

    please use the updated scripts from here:

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    RE: Problem with autostart.sh on RPI-4 Libreelec 11.95.1 Omega

    In the meanwhile I have played a little bit with pinctrl. But it's now your part to test if it works.

    (Code, 35 lines)

    (Code, 41 lines)

    […]

    To make it complete, please check every listed chip:

    (Code, 2 lines)

    The correct one has 58 on the RPi4 (but the pin count could be split/vary on RPi5) as the return value for ngpio and I'm assuming the label is "pinctrl-bcm2712" or something similar.

    EDIT:
    Benoitone I have added pull-down for the input pin, to be ensure the pin isn't floating.
    HarryH
    April 15, 2024 at 8:24 PM

  • [RPi4] Argon One Case Shutdown

    That's nice. :)

    Also if you got the outdated add-on download not from my repository, you are right that "issues" is disabled. I'm currently undecided, if I should enable this opportunity or not. From the workflow view it would be the right way if someone like you can use it, but I have not the time to moderate this.

  • [RPi4] Argon One Case Shutdown

    Quote from firefox

    Downloaded from github right now , but latest libreelec version gives installing error.

    Until now I only provided ready to install add-on packages here (attachments are at the end of the text):

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    RE: [RPi4] Argon One Case Shutdown

    Please be aware:

    I'm not a developer of KODI Add-ons. This is only a result of someone who had the wish to get the add-on work again with LibreELEC 10 and later.


    Argon ONE Control

    2025/04/11 Version 1.1.10 (recommended): Please note the updated documentation.

    What it does:

    Provides a GUI and installs a service to manage Argon ONE case features including the power button, fan speed, and the Argon IR remote.

    • supports LibreELEC 10 / 11 / 12 / 13
    • supports Argon ONE V1/2 (RPi4)
    • supports Argon ONE V3
    …
    HarryH
    August 2, 2023 at 9:57 PM


    So I don't really know what you are talking about and need more details with an exact version and, if necessary, a link to the debug log.
    Perhaps you tried the original version 0.0.1 from Argon, which is known that it not working with versions, which are newer than LibreELEC 9?