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HDMI-CEC
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 7 threads.
People raised many different problems with HDMI-CEC, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- HDMI-CEC control behaves flakily, breaking and fixing itself unpredictably2026-11-02
- CEC randomly switches inputs and turns devices on and off unexpectedly2025-12-16
- Turning one set top box on or off unexpectedly powers on the other and switches inputs2025-12-16
- CEC behaves non-deterministically, choosing audio devices and power states unpredictably even with identical steps2025-12-16
- Simple HDMI-CEC use cases fail 5-10% of the time despite expensive equipment2025-12-16
- CEC causes devices to get confused and the home theater needs multiple remotes2025-12-15
- Setting defaults to on, causing devices to brown out and damage equipment2023-12-29
- Feature is poorly documented and buried in unfriendly config menus2021-06-01
- Turning on receiver also turns on TV, and turning off TV kills receiver audio2019-07-15
- TV inputs keep switching randomly, so the user disabled the feature to keep the TV usable2016-04-27
- TV and console power each other on unexpectedly, so the TV can't be turned on without the console booting2015-02-11