Controlling the TV with my Raspberry PI

By ZeissS | | 1 minutes

Just so I find this my self again the future:

Install cec-utils which contains the cec-client.

Turn on 

echo "on 0" | cec-client -s -d 1

Turns the TV on.

Switch channel 

echo "as" | cec-client -s -d 1

Switches the TV to the Raspberry PI.

Turning Off 

echo "standby 0" | cec-client -s -d 1

Turns the TV off. To make this work with my Samsung I had to enable this in the TV settings.

Read the Status 

$ echo "pow 0" | cec-client -s  -d 1
opening a connection to the CEC adapter...
power status: standby

Notes

  • -d 1 - Turns off a lot of output, cec-client is by default quite noisy
  • -s - Single command mode - quits the client after sending the command
  • 0 - The 0 in the command refers to the TV. Use scan to list all devices