{"id":35,"date":"2012-06-28T02:08:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T06:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/46.19.32.152\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2012-06-28T02:09:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T06:09:21","slug":"usb-cec-adapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Pulse-Eight USB CEC Adapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI bought the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulse-eight.com\/store\/products\/104-usb-hdmi-cec-adapter.aspx\">Pulse-Eight USB CEC adapter<\/a> a few months back and so far it&#8217;s been a great addition to my XBMC setup.  For a long time I wanted to control my TV from my Android phone, for a few reasons.  First, I usually have it with me and charged up, unlike my TV remote which might be misplaced or out of batteries.  Second, I find it annoying that the infrared TV remote requires line-of-sight.  And finally, a smart phone remote just seems like the right way to control a TV in this day and age.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor such a tiny package the Pulse-Eight adapter enables a lot of functionality.  I can turn my TV on and off from my phone over Wi-Fi, using the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=org.xbmc.android.remote&#038;hl=en\">Official XBMC Remote<\/a> Android app and a slightly-hacked version of XBMC.  But there&#8217;s more.  Guests who prefer using a TV remote can use its extended buttons to control XBMC playback.  The adapter enables communication in both the TV-to-XBMC and XBMC-to-TV directions by passing CEC commands over the HDMI bus.  And its inventors maintain a Free Software library, <a href=\"http:\/\/libcec.pulse-eight.com\/\">libcec<\/a>, to control it.  This is a much cleaner and cheaper solution than the various Wi-Fi-to-IR converters I&#8217;ve looked at.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you run XBMC make sure to check out this adapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought the Pulse-Eight USB CEC adapter a few months back and so far it&#8217;s been a great addition to my XBMC setup. For a long time I wanted to control my TV from my Android phone, for a few reasons. First, I usually have it with me and charged up, unlike my TV remote &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=35\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pulse-Eight USB CEC Adapter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}