[mythtv-users] HDMI-CEC ?

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Wed Oct 5 19:02:15 UTC 2011


On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Dan Wilga
<mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu> wrote:
> On 10/5/11 8:39 AM, Dan Wilga wrote:
>> I seem to recall that some video cards support CEC commands, without
>> using a special adapter. Having upgraded to a newish video card a while
>> back, I'm going to look into this further before I buy the adapter.
>>
> Replaying to myself: While it's theoretically possible for a video card
> to send/receive CEC data over HDMI, it's apparently only supported in
> hardware by one or two manufacturers at this point, and not at all at
> the driver level by nVidia. At least that's what Google came up with.
> So, I ordered an adapter. I'll see how I fare at sending the appropriate
> on/off commands once it arrives (in 5-7 days).
>

Excellent, a guinea pig :)


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