Android CEC with DSCS9 -> add extra functions

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HDMI-CEC extra commands - switch display input

Guys, excellent news that Xibo finally supports turning screens on and off by schedule!
https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/android-cec-screen-power-on-off-with-dsdevices-dscs9/14727

Please don’t stop here with this! There are interesting use cases like ours:
The customer in a sports venue has Xibo-based signage (14 screens) using DSCS9 and Samsung TVs. Until now, person had to walk through the entire venue with a remote control in his hand to turn on each display before the event, and turn it off after the event finished. Now with HDMI-CEC this will finally automated.

However, a small part will still remain manual, switching some of the screens to TV input when the sports event is broadcasted from an OB van. It looks like this: 14 displays are turned on in the morning to display various info through the CMS as normal, but 2 or 3 of them are switched to TV (antenna) input when the match starts, and switched back to Xibo when the match ends. This is done by a person with a remote control in his hand.

As far as I know, HDMI-CEC also allows input switching. Let me suggest to your dev team to extend HDMI-CEC with this. We would then simply schedule form the CMS an input switch for the displays requiring this.

It would be soo proffessional. I assume this can be very vendor-specific but the way Xibo handles commands is perfect, any commands can be added with parameters to the system, so one would only have to fill in the specific vendor-strings right in the CMS.

Thanks,
Robert

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Hi Robert

It’s largely down to the folks at DSDevices that this has been possible so far. I’ve pointed them to your feedback. I’m glad you’re finding that functionality useful :slight_smile:

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I am in contact with DSDevices in other matters, but thanks.
Now we’re focusing in making sure that displays we’ll be deploying in the future can be remotely switched on/off via Xibo :wink:

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Hi, I agree with @robreg . I Think that there are a lot of things to do with CEC.
I aslo need to switch the signal on TV antenna from 8pm to 11pm. I know that xibo dev team is enought skilled to create the code :slight_smile:

On this way, we can imagine that one day xibo will manage some other connected devices (like turning a light on or off )

Regards