HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control), HDMI communication channel protocol support?

I run Pulse-Eight along with a few other people, some of whom are XBMC dev's also.

The devices from Pulse-Eight look nice. I hope you make them work with EventGhost since many of the Windows users use EventGhost as the "control center" for our HTPCs since we run more than just XBMC

Livin Wrote:The devices from Pulse-Eight look nice. I hope you make them work with EventGhost since many of the Windows users use EventGhost as the "control center" for our HTPCs since we run more than just XBMC

Thanks I'm sure we will as we move along, that said, we are aiming to have tight integration of our devices with XBMC where possible, and provide libraries to assist as much as we can

Just chiming in - Pegatron does not manufacturer everyones boards. Most of the motherboard manufacturers have their own production capabilities, Pegatron / Asrock / AsUS, MSI, Gigabyte, ECS, ZOTAC all have manufacturing capabilities.

There are no motherboards available that support HDMI-CEC, especially not from us. Just because the pin out specification has been around since HDMI 1.0 does not mean HDMI-CEC can be enabled by some miraculous driver.

The chipset / GPU does not have any way of translating HDMI-CEC commands into something usable by the OS. Toshiba laptops with REGZA-Link use the Chrontel chip that translates HDMI-CEC to usable commands.

The Pulse-Eight adapter will do the same.

@Zotac PR

I have seen Zotac get more serious about building small mobos for HTPC. It would be nice if complete solutions including HDMI-CEC were coming to market... maybe Zotac can be a trailblazer in that respect.

Some boards are starting to expose the CEC wire on the motherboard, and we plan to offer an internal version of our adapter for those boards. For now, the external option is the only choice

This guy got a little inventive:

http://valkyriemt.wordpress.com/2010/07/...tra-wires/

pico1234 Wrote:This guy got a little inventive:

http://valkyriemt.wordpress.com/2010/07/...tra-wires/

It's essentially the same as what we did, but you don't need a soldiering iron to achieve the same effect, or a programming degree

Malard Wrote:It's essentially the same as what we did, but you don't need a soldiering iron to achieve the same effect, or a programming degree

Bonus points if you post the schematics and diagrams, source code included, for those with an iron and programming degree

à la Sparkfun Electronics. Did I mention I love that company?

garbear Wrote:Bonus points if you post the schematics and diagrams, source code included, for those with an iron and programming degree

à la Sparkfun Electronics. Did I mention I love that company?

We have no plans to provide any technical details on the construction of the adapter or the firmware for the CEC adapter, only the library (libCEC) is public

And if you can hand soldier 0603 resistors, your a better man than me