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[AppleTV] HDMI detection on atv1 - gen0 - 2012-09-21
Hi all,
I am running XBMC 11.0 on a 1stgen AppleTV using XBMCLauncher 3.25. MultiFinder boots straight in to XBMC, and my TV uses HDMI.
If I boot/reboot my AppleTV whilst my TV is turned off, when I turn my TV on the screen is black.
It seems that out-of-the-box, AppleTV OS tries to detect if a HDMI display is connected, and otherwise falls back to Component video output. If I'm in the native AppleTV menu, I can turn my TV off for a while, and then on - and after a couple of seconds it detects the HDMI display and I see a picture. (I think this is done by something called BRDisplayManager).
However, XBMC appears to be designed to disable the ATV's detection of HDMI state-change because lots of people had issues with XBMC crashing or their music stopping when they turned off their TVs.
So this means if I boot my AppleTV straight into XBMC and it didn't detect a HDMI display device before XBMC starts, HDMI is disabled for as long as XBMC stays running (and it's hard to exit XBMC when the screen is black, so I generally pull the plug to hard-reboot).
Does anyone know if there's a tweak or setting for XBMC or Xbmc-launcher that can be used to leave this HDMI detection enabled?
RE: [AppleTV] HDMI detection on atv1 - davilla - 2012-09-22
nope.
RE: [AppleTV] HDMI detection on atv1 - Ned Scott - 2012-09-22
Crystalbuntu (wiki) would allow this to work. It might sound a little scary, but you really don't have to know any scary linux stuff and it's actually pretty easy to set up and install.
RE: [AppleTV] HDMI detection on atv1 - gen0 - 2012-09-22
Thanks. If Davilla says there's no way to make this tweak then I'll take that as conclusive!
I have played with Crystalbuntu and OpenELEC and they are very easy to get going. But I still like having the native AppleTV OS. Apple's UI for movie trailers, podcasts and YouTube is pretty nice, I like to be able to drop out of XBMC to use them sometimes.