Hi all,
This is my first post here on the forums. I recently got interested in having my living room PC be CEC compliant. Until recently, I didn't even know what CEC was, but I was at a buddy's house and saw him grab his PS4 remote, press a button, and his TV magically switched to the proper input and woke the PS4. As soon as I got home, I furiously began googling all the googles to see if this sort of action was possible with PC. Turns out that graphics card manufacturers don't support HDMI-CEC. There are apparently a few old intel boards that are able to do this but that doesn't help my situation.
I eventually stumbled across a USB CEC Adapter from www.pulse-eight.com . It's designed specifically for Kodi users, and comes with the right software to basically have your pc turn on, boot into Kodi, and most importantly, change the input on your tv to the proper one. Beyond that you can basically control Kodi with a slew of different remotes including OEM ones apparently. Pretty awesome, but I already have a media solution.
I've seen people using some software called eventghost to add functionality to these things but no specific cases where it's being used for my use case. I have absolutely zero programming knowledge so I'm definitely out of my wheelhouse here, but I thought I'd make a post here to see if anyone had any experience/interest in this.
My goal is to press a button on my keyboard (or my xbox one for pc controller for my wife) and have the tv change inputs to the proper input. I already leave this pc running basically all the time, and it boots straight into Steam Big Picture mode already. So really I just want the tv to change inputs.
I figure this is a shot in the dark, but I might as well ask. Thanks everyone in advance!.
