I installed Rasplex 1.35, it was flawless. It found my Plex server and played great. A big bonus was that my Samsung TV remote worked out of the box, thanks to CEC/Anynet+
But, after a week or so, the remote just stopped working. If I check my CEC/Anynet+ settings, it says 'no device'. I can see the CEC initialisation when Rasplex starts, but the remote no longer functions. I can use the Samsung 'scan' function, which goes away and looks at something - a couple of minutes later I get a 'not found' message.
When changing hdmi channels, previously the TV used to give a message about relinquishing CEC control, but that no longer happens.
I have upgraded from 1.35 to 1.37, but no joy.
AFAIK, I didn't change anything on the TV or Rasplex.
Since the problem, I have changed HDMI port, reset the TV to factory settings, made Rasplex the only hdmi device - nothing seems to work.
I did a factory reset on the TV, reinstalled Rasplex - still no go. If I go through the preference>system>input, it shows there being a CEC interface, but for some reason the ability to use it has gone :(
I lost mine as well. I reinstalled rasplex 1.35 using the installer tool on my mac and it’s working again. This is such an awesome feature and makes the cost of running rasplex even less.
OK, CEC is working really well for me on 1.35 with my Toshiba TV, with one exception. The EXIT button on my remote is supposed to drop you back to the previous menu. For me it only seems to do this one out of every 50-100 button presses (based on if I mash the button a whole bunch of times it will sometimes work). I know the button is working. As a workaround, if I go into my TV's menu, there is a CEC option for navigating to content menu, which throws me back to the top level of Rasplex. Not really a workaround I can get my wife to use, but at least I'm not dead in the water once I drill into one of my sections.
I tried upgrading to 1.37 and things seemed to get worse. A lot of buttons weren't working. I'm going to revert back to 1.35 tonight.
The issue seems to be the back key is listed as "Back" in the file, but should be "Exit" for my remote. I found the remote.xml file in /usr/share/xbmc/system/keymaps, but I can't edit it or replace it with an updated copy. I keep getting read-only errors. I've tried unlocking it with chmod but am not getting anywhere. Any suggestions for how I can update this file? I've tried updating it via ssh, cyber duck and file zilla to no avail. Any suggestions?
have you logged in as root via ssh or sftp? you should have full access when you're root, not when you're logged in as plexuser. (note password is the same)
I too have a Samsung TV hooked up to Raspberry Pi running Rasplex. So if you know how to edit the remote.xml to get the keys to behave, I would love to hear how you did it :)
I still can’t get my exit button working, but I swapped my up and down commands and that worked. So at least the commands can be edited. Now to figure out what’s preventing the exit button from executing the back command…
To clarify, I swapped the buttons in the remote.xml file I put in the user data folder. It has to go in /storage/.plexht/userdata/keymaps for it to work for raspbmc.
I can't seem to get the back button to work no matter what I try. I even tried mapping the Stop button (which I know works because it would stop anything from playing when it was mapped as stop) and that doesn't work either. Not sure where to go from here...
To close the loop, there is some intermittent issue where the exit button will sometimes work, and other times not work. I know the physical button is working because if I enter the tv’s menu system, it will close out its menus… I’m giving up on cec in my setup for e time being. So close…
