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Monday, January 28, 2013

Feature Request: HDMI CEC in MK802

I have been reading a lot about HDMI's Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) protocol lately.  CEC allows devices that are connected to each other over HDMI to control each other.  The main use case is that you can use your TV remote control to control your media player.  XBMC and MythTV running on Linux already support this feature.  It would be really nice if there was Android support for CEC.  Out of the box support for CEC would be great for consumers.  They wouldn't need to buy a separate remote control to use the device.  They could just use their TV remote control.  Although I do think it is important to make it easier for mainstream adoption, it is not a priority for my set-up.  I already have multiple Mele Fly Mouses.  Also, my Vizio TV in the living room has a horrible remote control.  The Vizio TV in the bedroom has a good remote control, but I like to keep the two set-ups as consistent as possible for my wife.

Here is a nice write up on trying to get CEC support for the Allwinner chips that the MK802 uses.  This article is for Linux on the MK802, however.

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