[Bradford] FYI: Raspberry Pi delivery

[Alan D Barnard]

I came across a weird thing the other day. If a Pi is connected to a TV 
via HDMI, then operating the IR remote control causes the control signal 
to be routed from the TV to the Pi via the HDMI connection. This 
actually causes the Pi to do things. Apparently this is a feature not a bug:

http://elinux.org/CEC_%28Consumer_Electronics_Control%29_over_HDMI

The nice thing is that it needs no additional hardware.

On 14/05/13 13:33, Brian A wrote:
> I ordered a Raspberry Pi from RS yesterday and 24 hours later it arrived.
> This one arrived in a pink plastic box. If they had wanted they could
> have made a case with the plastic - what a waste!
> Strangely it was made in China. I thought that they were all made in
> Wales now, perhaps RS gets them cheaper from China.
>
> I also got some 38KHz IR receivers. I'm going to attach one of them to
> the GPIO pins on my Raspbian (XBMC) Pi. I am hoping to be able to use
> the existing TV remote with the Pi.
>
> This is my third Pi. I have one that runs XBMC for the kitchen TV and
> another (128MB, old model B) running Asterisk/FreePBX.
>
> Brian
>
>
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