Cec-client and libcec on RaspberryPi OSMC/Raspbian
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How to install libcec and cec-client on Raspberry Pi with Debian jessie? The following instruction is valid for the newest OSMC and Raspbian images based on Jessie distro. Building a cec-client package directly on Raspberry Pi is required, because of the problem with preinstalled cec-utils that doesn’t work with built-in cec driver.
First thing to do is to update software to the latest version and to install required depedencies:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgradesudo apt-get install cmake libudev-dev libxrandr-dev python-dev swig
For OSMC install rbp-userland-dev-osmc package:
sudo apt-get install rbp-userland-dev-osmcFor Raspbian install libraspberrypi-dev package:
sudo apt-get install libraspberrypi-dev
Clone Pulse-Eight platform repository and build it
cd ~/mkdir platform/build && cd platform/buildcmake ..makesudo make installFinally clone and build libcec
cd ~/mkdir libcec/build && cd libcec/buildcmake -DRPI_INCLUDE_DIR=/opt/vc/include -DRPI_LIB_DIR=/opt/vc/lib ..make -j4sudo make installsudo ldconfigThe newly installed version of cec-client is located in /usr/local/bin/ directory.
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