HDMI-CEC: Immer auf dem richtigen Kanal

HDMI-CEC: Always on the right channel

Thanks to HDMI-CEC, your TV box from Swisscom and your TV can communicate with each other. For example, if you turn on the TV box, the TV will also turn on automatically. We explain how to activate HDMI-CEC.

You’ll never need to toggle to the right HDMI channel ever again: with HDMI-CEC, you can now use your blue TV remote control to switch your TV-Box and television on and off at the same time. The TV-Box conveys the signals to the TV and selects the correct signal output (source) at start-up.

But that’s not all that HDMI-CEC can do. If, for example, you decide to watch something on blue TV after playing a game with a games console, then simply press the Home button on your blue TV remote control to launch blue TV with the correct HDMI channel selected automatically. Handy.

How to activate HDMI-CEC on the TV-Box

It is very easy to switch the HDMI-CEC on and off:

Swisscom UHD-Box

  1. Go to the blue TV main menu (Home button)
  2. Select “Settings”
  3. Open the “System” tab
  4. Under HDMI-CEC, you can then activate the two functions “Switch on TV and select HDMI input” and “Turn off TV” or deactivate them again.

New “Swisscom Box”

  1. Go to the blue TV main menu (Home button)
  2. Select “Settings”
  3. Open the “TV Box” tab
  4. Under “HDMI-CEC” you can turn on or deactivate the two functions “Turn on TV and select HDMI input” and “Turn off TV”.

How to ensure that your TV is HDMI-CEC ready

Please note that you also have to activate HDMI-CEC on your TV. You will need to determine which HDMI input on your TV supports HDMI-CEC (model and manufacturer dependent).

The TV manufacturers often use their own commercial name for HDMI CEC:

  • Samsung: Anynet+
  • Sony: BRAVIA Sync
  • Hitachi: HDMI CEC (Merci, Hitachi!)
  • Philips: EasyLink
  • Sharp: AquosLink
  • Panasonic: Viera Link
  • LG: SympLink

The HDMI-CEC options and features supported also differ among manufacturers. Some televisions cannot be switched off using HDMI-CEC or, in some cases, the volume can no longer be changed through the TV when HDMI-CEC is activated. You will find information about HDMI-CEC in the user guide for your television set, the Internet or from a specialist retailer.

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5 months later

I also found out that only HDMI 2.0 or higher is supported. An absurdity in this day and age, Greta sends her regards.

My premium AV receiver, Sony STR-DA3600ES, is no longer supported because it is (already) 8 years old.

By the way, the AppleTV4K still supports my AV receiver.

Should I now buy a new AV receiver and a new television, also only 7 years old.

So Swisscom is supporting the mountain of electronic waste, which I find a scandal.

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7 months later

For a few days or weeks now, my volume or mute commands from the UHD box have no longer been passed through to the receiver. I operate a Philips TV from the latest series and a Panasonic SC-BTT290 that has been around for a few years.

In addition, just a short time ago TV-Box and TV via HDMI were switched on practically at the same time. Today the TV only activates after a few seconds. Apparently something was changed in the software of the TV-Box UHD - in this case to my disadvantage. This now forces me to use two remote controls again.

So if anyone from Swisscom is reading: Please go back to the previous status - thank you.

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Try deleting the HDMI-CEC config on the TV and the box and setting everything up again from scratch, that might help.

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I had already done this and many other things - unsuccessfully. In the meantime the remote control has been replaced - now it’s working fine again as before.

By the way, it would also have helped to re-pair the FB with the WPS of the TB box. Now the old FP is running again.

You have to get to it first…

Super service from Swisscom: call the hotline. Pick up FB at the station kiosk. Case closed. Thanks.

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a year later

@Miozoprei74

thanks for the contribution

this article may help

[Limitation of the number of devices on blue TV: everything you need to know](https://community.swisscom.ch/t5/La-casella-di-sapienza-TV/Limitation-of-the-number-of-devices-on- blue-TV-everything-that/ta-p/528808)

  • Parallel viewing on all Boxes is always possible without problems if the necessary bandwidth is available
  • 3 parallel views for customers inOne
  • 2 parallel viewings for blue TV customers without inOne home
  • Customers with a blueTV subscription to pagamento can enjoy all the pleasure of television on 2 devices simultaneously
  • Those who use the free variant can watch television on only one device
  • number of devices on which you can watch blue TV via app is limited

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3 years later
  1. Hello,

Since the last Blue TV update, when I turn on the TV, my DVD player also turns on and the TV sound is muted.

Both devices are Samsung brand.

Could you suggest me a solution to this problem?

THANKS,

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Hello @Seudajeff12
My Box also did this to me when migrating, it set the television volume to zero! I just had to manually turn up the volume on the television and everything was back to normal.

DanielD

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Good morning,

Thank you for your response, but that’s not at all the problem I’m having.

When I turn on my TV, my DVD player also turns on and the sound disappears. I then have to turn off the DVD player for the sound to come back.

I would like my DVD player not to turn on when I turn on my TV.

Thank you for your help.

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