HDMI-CEC remote control issue

Discussion in 'HDD Media player(RTD 1619DR)' started by Claudiu, Nov 19, 2021.

  1. Claudiu

    Claudiu Member

    Hi,

    There is a small thing bothering me about my Z10 pro, that is HDMI-CEC implementation on the CX oled from LG. There is a profile on the LG tv set, Zidoo, seen as an OTT device, which works pretty well, I can use the LG remote for basically almost all functions on the player, except I am unable to launch the pop up menu to correct the automatic scrapping of movies. There is no way to do this with the remote, there is a menu option launch by the "..." key on the LG remote which launches the settings menu of Home Theater, not the popup menu.

    There is also an Universal mode available on the LG CX, in which the "..." key launches the popup menu, but in this mode, there other things not working, like the numbers on the remote and slow FF and RW.

    Also, keeping the Enter button pressed on the LG remote just enters the movie details, it does not launch the pop up menu.

    So, is there a way to launch the pop up menu, using the tv remote?
    I can see one easy way to do this, that is adding the shortcut to the Remote Key mapping application. The color buttons work on the tv remote (except the yellow one for whatever reason, but it works in universal mode).
    Another way would be to show a menu button in the movie details interface, accessible by the arrow buttons, that would be really easy.
    Or it can be done by mapping a number (5 for exemple, or 0) to the popup menu when in Home Theater main screen, not a long press, as that does other things on the tv remote.

    Sorry for the long post, I hope someone at Zidoo reads this and thinks it could be a nice touch and not hard to implement.

    PS: if the scrapping could be modified in the app, that would also be great.

    Thank you.
     
  2. Yohmi

    Yohmi Member

    I am not totally sure about what you're looking for, but on the poster wall, a long press on the ok button will display the menu to change the identification of a content. It also works on the "other" section where contents are waiting for your input to be identified. You can even select on Quick Settings how fast you want this long press to be recorded (I use the shortest and it's very efficient). I'm using the CEC from my Panasonic JZ1500 (and for the fellow Panasonic tv owners, when the CEC isn't automatically triggered, use the Viera Link app to quickly enable it).
     
  3. Claudiu

    Claudiu Member

    Hi, thanks for answering. Long press on OK button does not work on LG CX oled. So that's my problem, I would need another solution, like the ones mentioned in the OP.
     
  4. Fade

    Fade New Member

    Hi, anyone found an workaround or so on how to map the popup menu button to a color button for when using HDMI-CEC remotes?

    I for example got my zidoo z9x in another room and since it's IR I have to get up from my recliner, walk over to that room, point remote and press menu, go back to recliner. Would be soo much easier if it was possible to map this button to an action button, as you can do with subtitles and such. Maybe I sounds lazy but my autoscan of my library suddenly stopped working a few months back, so I have to do this quite often to rescan my shares.

    Wasn't such a huge problem when the autoscan worked... but now...
     

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