Charles Darwin Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 One would think that a media center / video game console can handle HDMI CEC. In other words the VCS is supposed to switch your TV on and off at startup and shutdown. I could not find any CEC-functionality and I assume it's not built in. So I bought an external HDMI-CEC adapter from here (yes...it is expensive) installed the cec-utils package in Linux Mint and realized that it is a bit more complicated than I thought ? The adapter is made for Kodi, but I wanted my VCS to switch the TV at startup and shutdown. So I created two scripts in my home directory (subfolder scripts)...sh-files are attached. A start_and_stop.service file I put in /etc/systemd/system...file is attached. Then I activated the service as described here and here. Now my VCS switches the TV on (HDMI 1) and switches it off automatically...and I can forget about my TV remote ? TV-off.sh TV-on.sh start_and_stop.service 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andymanone Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 Great stuff ?! Well done ??! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Darwin Posted January 28, 2021 Author Share Posted January 28, 2021 It is still possible that there is a CEC-chip somewhere on the VCS. Maybe it is just deactivated? I could not find anything in the BIOS. When I do a scan, it gives me an error on one address...so maybe this is it. echo 'scan' | cec-client -s -d 1 anyway...I dont care...just happy that it works now on my VCS ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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