CEC not working properly

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Hi,
I’m running:

CoreELEC (official): 20.1-Nexus (Amlogic-ng.arm)
      Machine model: Amlogic
     CoreELEC dt-id: g12a_s905x2_4g_1gbit

my setup is a Yamaha AVR, sony TV, and the CoreELEC box.
CEC is only very partially working.
the only thing that’s working with it, is that the AVR is switching to it when I turn it on.
I should note that I was previously running CoreELEC 9.2.5 with a different TV (samsung) and it was working properly (e.g. volume buttons changed AVR volume, waking from screensaver turned on both TV and AVR, etc).
I didn’t use CE for quite some time before I returned to it, and upgraded to 20.1, but now it is no longer functioning properly.

running cec-client -s -d 1 returns:

CEC bus information
===================
device #1: Recorder 1
address:       3.3.0.0
active source: no
vendor:        Pulse Eight
osd string:    CECTester
CEC version:   1.4
power status:  on
language:      eng


device #5: Audio
address:       f.f.f.f
active source: no
vendor:        Unknown
osd string:    Audio
CEC version:   unknown
power status:  unknown
language:      ???

and a bunch of Write: write failed messages in verbose

I also tried the bl301 injection, but there’s no difference.
the CEC settings on the sony tv are turned off (causing other trouble), but on the AVR they are turned on.
I also have an XBOX which can trigger AVR on/off, mute, and volume changes with CEC.

can anyone point me to any direction?

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CEC on TV must be enabled as it’s the CEC master. All others are only slaves. And AVR are normally know to produce CEC issues.

I hope you have done a clean instand did not just upgrade.

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the installation was clean (previous .kodi folder renamed for backup purposes).
the XBOX knows to send volume/mute CEC commands to the AVR without having the TV setting enabled.

is How to configure used libCEC version still relevant?
can I try to use the libcec version that was in 9.2.5 in this way?

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No, it’s not available anymore. I just know LibCEC needs to have a master with id 0 to work probably.
Not sure how this should work without TV…

You can enable LibCEC component debug logging and make a Kodi log.

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that’s too bad. is there a way to manually try a different libcec version? what was the presence of /storage/.config/libcec-4.0.5.conf doing behind the scenes? I see here Amlogic-ng: add possibility to choose libCEC version · CoreELEC/CoreELEC@5111183 · GitHub that a symlink is created. is it possible to use libcec v4 with CE v20(+)?

here’s the kodi log with cec debug: http://ix.io/4ziy
here’s the dmesg: http://ix.io/4zix

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As I thought, libCEC search for the TV, master and do not find it. It find the Audio system but I don’t know how this should work and I am almost sure Kodi is not able to handle such setup.

You can request support for your setup here:

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and can you say if there’s a way (willing to try) of using libcec v4?

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Not by CE, you can try by yourself.

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yes I mean by myself/
which files do I need to have (and where), and how do I tell the system to use /var/lib/libcec.so.4 and not /var/lib/libcec.so.6?

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trying to place libcec.so.4 in /var/lib/ alongside libcec.so.6 does nothing.
when I restart kodi, according to /usr/lib/kodi/kodi-config, the libcec.so.6 symlink is always regenerated.
the system is read-only.
how can I try it for myself? do you have any idea?

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Feature of using different libcec versions was removed and only default symbolic link is created.

You can try mount bind over current version (adjust path /storage/libcec.so.4 if needed):

mount -o bind /storage/libcec.so.4 /usr/lib/libcec.so.6.0.2
systemctl restart kodi
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thanks for the suggestion.
for some reason, this causes CE to reboot into safe mode.

I tried reverting to 9.2.5 and test the CEC, and while direct commands such as echo volup | cec-client -s -d, now works, the control using volume keys still doesn’t, so it might be that the CEC should be enabled on the TV like @Portisch suggested.
now I can say for certainty that libcec6 removed support for some devices.

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