XBMC Newbie and CEC Stopped working

[Stuart White]

Hi guys, I'm by no means a newbie to linux but i guess i am to XBMC....

Have been running xbian for a couple of months now and CEC was working fine with my Samsung TV...

One day i turned on the TV and it just stopped working...

I have read about getting new cables but surely the cable won't just fail? (It's a fairly thick HQ HDMI cable)
It was working fine before... and none of my other HDMI cables fix the issue.

I have rebuilt xbian(formatted the SD and another SD) to no avail....

I can't seem to find much out there on how to configure it or debug it... I've never had to configure it before.... It just worked.

Any pointers would be great I'm getting lost in it and really need to focus on getting fun_plug and transmission on my DNS-320L

Thanks

[tomtomclub]

the same here on the samsung tv you must roll back to the old cec and lib
Unfortunately, I do not know how The new CEC is a disaster for samsung tv and Phillips smart tv

[Stuart White]

Have you tried rolling back tom? Can you point me in the direction on where you got this information.

Thakns

[tomtomclub]

no I hope that someone knows how to do it

[Stuart White]

Anyone know how to roll back to the previous cec package? Or at least where the package is hosted!??
Thanks

[Stuart White]

Can anyone help.. so i ran cec-client -l


root@xbian:/home/xbian# cec-client -l
WARNING: [ 2] libCEC has not been compiled with detection code for the Pulse-Eight USB-CEC Adapter, so the path to the COM port has to be provided to libCEC if this adapter is being used
Found devices: 1

device: 1
com port: RPI
vendor id: 2708
product id: 1001
firmware version: 1
type: Raspberry Pi

Segmentation fault
root@xbian:/home/xbian#

[IriDium]

Have you tried using the CEC update in the staging directory?

[Stuart White]

Hi, thanks for the reply..

No I haven't. What is the staging dir?

I'm in the office now but SSH'd into the Pi

[IriDium]

I haven't tried it but it might solve the issue.
I assume your system is fully up to date.

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list -> Add new line deb http://xbian.brantje.com staging main.
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo xbian-config -> 5 -> 3 Select xbian-package-cec (Should be the only one)
sudo reboot

See if that improves matters.

[Stuart White]

Thanks,

I already have a line in there but it is stable main not staging main... should i edit this line or add another?

deb http://xbian.brantje.com stable main

I will try that tonight as i have rolled back the cec package to 1.1-04 so will try that when im home first

[IriDium]

*********** DON'T DO ANYTHING FOR THE MOMENT ************
I've just upgraded it and Xbian failed to start. I need to figure out what the issue is.

As I said - Add a new line so it looks something like.

deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi
deb http://xbian.brantje.com stable main
deb http://xbian.brantje.com staging main

[Stuart White]

Ok, I'll hold off for now!

[IriDium]

Ok, looks like it was just my peculiar setting of the real time clock module. Removing it and all seems fine.

[Stuart White]

Tried it to no avail. I'm pretty sure this is down to the latest libcec or cec package anyway.. If the following can be made sense of by anyone:


DEBUG: [ 992] command 'POLL' was not acked by the controller
TRAFFIC: [ 992] << 10
DEBUG: [ 992] sending data: len = 0, payload = 10
DEBUG: [ 1057] received data: header:01010001 p0:00000010 p1:00000000 p2:00000000 p3:00000000 reason:1
DEBUG: [ 1057] command 'POLL' was not acked by the controller
DEBUG: [ 1057] >> POLL not sent
DEBUG: [ 1057] not sending command 'set osd name': destination device 'TV' marked as not present
DEBUG: [ 1058] << requesting power status of 'TV' (0)
DEBUG: [ 1058] << Recorder 1 (1) -> TV (0): POLL
TRAFFIC: [ 1058] << 10
DEBUG: [ 1058] sending data: len = 0, payload = 10
^Csignal caught: 2 - exiting
DEBUG: [ 1147] received data: header:01010001 p0:00000010 p1:00000000 p2:00000000 p3:00000000 reason:1
DEBUG: [ 1147] command 'POLL' was not acked by the controller
TRAFFIC: [ 1147] << 10
DEBUG: [ 1147] sending data: len = 0, payload = 10
DEBUG: [ 1237] received data: header:01010001 p0:00000010 p1:00000000 p2:00000000 p3:00000000 reason:1
DEBUG: [ 1237] command 'POLL' was not acked by the controller
DEBUG: [ 1237] >> POLL not sent
DEBUG: [ 1237] not sending command 'give device power status': destination device 'TV' marked as not present
waiting for input
DEBUG: [ 1237] unregistering all CEC clients
NOTICE: [ 1238] unregistering client: libCEC version = 2.1.4, client version = 2.1.4, firmware version = 1, logical address(es) = Recorder 1 (1) , physical address: 2.0.0.0, host: arm-bcm2708hardfp-linux-gnueabi, features: 'P8 USB' 'RPi', git revision: 30d9194, compiled on: Wed Dec 18 01:15:54 UTC 2013 by root@g630 on Linux 3.11.0-14-generic (x86_64)
DEBUG: [ 1238] Recorder 1 (1): power status changed from 'on' to 'unknown'
DEBUG: [ 1238] Recorder 1 (1): vendor = Unknown (000000)
DEBUG: [ 1238] Recorder 1 (1): CEC version unknown
DEBUG: [ 1238] Recorder 1 (1): osd name set to 'Recorder 1'
DEBUG: [ 1238] Recorder 1 (1): device status changed into 'unknown'
DEBUG: [ 1238] unregistering all CEC clients
DEBUG: [ 1327] received data: header:01010001 p0:00000010 p1:00000000 p2:00000000 p3:00000000 reason:1
WARNING: [ 1327] unhandled response received: opcode=0 initiator=1 destination=0 response=1
DEBUG: [ 2083] received data: header:01010001 p0:00000010 p1:00000000 p2:00000000 p3:00000000 reason:1
WARNING: [ 2083] unhandled response received: opcode=0 initiator=1 destination=0 response=1
DEBUG: [ 2174] received data: header:01010001 p0:00000010 p1:00000000 p2:00000000 p3:00000000 reason:1
WARNING: [ 2174] unhandled response received: opcode=0 initiator=1 destination=0 response=1
DEBUG: [ 2212] UnregisterLogicalAddress - releasing previous logical address
DEBUG: [ 2213] received data: header:00060040 p0:0000000F p1:0000FFFF p2:00000000 p3:00000000 reason:40
DEBUG: [ 2214] logical address changed to Broadcast (f)
root@xbian:/home/xbian# cec-client -i
libCEC version: 2.1.4, host: arm-bcm2708hardfp-linux-gnueabi, features: 'P8 USB' 'RPi', git revision: 30d9194, compiled on: Wed Dec 18 01:15:54 UTC 2013 by root@g630 on Linux 3.11.0-14-generic (x86_64)
root@xbian:/home/xbian#

[Stuart White]

Any more input from anyone?