Lindy HDMI CEC Less Adapter Type A Male to Type A Female, Remove CEC Line Termination Pin 13 Compatibility Fix Problem Solver EasyLink SimpleLink Anynet+ BRAVIA Sync HDMI-CEC

The product appears to be good quality and does what it is supposed to do, thus I consider it as value for money. 5 stars given for "remote control" is to give a full a full 5 star review but isn't really applicable to this product, unless you consider its purpose is to block remote commands over HDMI. Picture quality shows no degradation, I wouldn't expect it to, but in my case it was only being used on a 1080p connection. It certainly solved my problem which was as follows: My television has 3 HDMI ports. Originally port 1 was connected to a Chromecast and port 2 was connected to an AV receiver with a Blue-Ray player connected to it. When the AV receiver and / or Blue-Ray player were turned on the television would automatically switch to the correct HDMI input and I could control the AV receiver and Blue-Ray player using the television's remote control via the HDMI link, thus avoiding me needing to use all the individual dedicated remotes. I connected a device to the third HDMI port and the previous functionality ceased - the television no longer automatically switched to the AV receiver / Blue-Ray player and I could no longer control them via the televisions' remote control. Hence I suspected that either the new device, a security recorder, which obviously needs to be on 24/7, might be sending CEC commands that were preventing the AV receiver and Blue-Ray player establishing a CEC link or that the lengthy 15m HDMI cable to it was picking up interference and causing a similar issue. I fitted the CEC blocker at the television in the connection from the security recorder and problem solved. I am a little disappointed in those that designed my television as even if you manually forced it to switch to the correct HDMI input it would still not give priority to CEC commands from that source.

I have a HUMAX Freeview box (Aura) that, when it does an overnight update, switches the TV and soundbar on. So at some ungodly hour of the night the TV is on and blaring away meaning getting up ro turn everything off. Unfortunately, the HUMAX doesn't turn everything off after an update, it turns itself off again but not anything else. Adding this stops this happening. The ONLY downside is that you have to turn the TV on and then something else. I have an LG TV, an Amazon Fire Cube, a JBL Sound Bar and a Sony BluRay player fed into the HDMI ports. If I turn the TV on I have to press the Humax on button on the remote. If I turn the Fire Cube on, it turns everything on, including the Humax. Can't be bothered to try and recable everything again (been doing that for a year to stop the Humax bug). The gizmo WORKS and we have had NO disturbed sleep since fitting it. Best money I've spent recently. According to HUMAX, it's all working as it should (meaning it doesn't turn everything off after an update but DOES turn everything off if you use the remote. Go figure that logic).

HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) implementation on our Humax freeview recorder was causing issues upstream where sometimes after playing a music source on our sonos soundbar the tv no longer saw the sonos as a HDMI ARC device. Turns out it's an issue with the Humax, namely it's CEC, which we don't use anyway so blocking it was the answer. This little adaptor plugs into a HDMI port and blocks the CEC signal simply by not having the relevant pin connected. Keep in mind it makes the HDMI connection stick out more, so consider this if you've got a tight space. I've used Lindy cables & adaptors before and have always found they do what they say, I find them well made and they tend to be my go-to company when I need something like this.

I recently bought this device to cure a problem between my Sony Bravia TV, Sony BluRay/Surround Sound and a Microsoft Surface Dock. I have the dock (which uses a mini display port) connected to the TV via a minidisplay - HDMI adapter. However, I found that whenever I had everything connected up in this fashion, the TV stopped recognising and using the Surround sound system via Bravia Sync. It was like the Surround sound was broken or invisible to the TV even though still plugged in. This was happening even with the Surface Dock switched off completely. As long as it was connected to the TV, then the Bravia Sync stopped working. After some searching on the net, it appears that mini display ports use a particular pin on an HDMI cable and that messes with the Bravia TV Sync facility. This particular adapter removes that pin, which doesn't affect HDMI in any other way. So, with this adapter fitted between my Surface Dock and the TV, this problem instantly disappeared, so now I can have all devices plugged in and working as expected. So this device worked great for me in curing the Sony Bravia Sync issue caused by mini display port from the Surface Dock. I knocked a star off as I thought it was a little expensive at just under £10. Does the trick though!

I had actually ordered one of these a few years back, and at some point looked at it and thought would did i need this for and then got rid of it, Anyway My new Zidoo Z20 Pro, and it appears its switching on randomly possibly due to intermittent HDME CEC signals, so after some searching this was recommended, so i was surprised when amazon said i bought it a few years back as mentioned above, Works perfectly no more random switching on, and it doesn't interfere with the signal at all

Simply doesn't work .

I have had a lot of problems with my Samsung TV, connected to a Sonos AMP through HDMI (E-ARC) AND a Google TV Chromecast on another HDMI input. I have had two different problems. 1. Everytime I turn on the TV the external sound with Sonos is not discovered until I unplug the Chromecast. Unplug and plug in, then the sound is through Sonos as I want as default. 2. I cant change the volume through the TV remote. With this device plugged in between the Chromecast and the TV, both of these problems have been resolved.

Awesome time saver for CEC issues

I have a Samsung QN65Q7FAM TV and a Samsung HW-M550/ZA sound bar. The other day when I tried using an optical audio cable from my TV to my sound bar and not an HDMI cable, the Dolby digital 5.1 sounds a lot better than it did when using the TV ARC connection. Only problem? I lose all of the neat HDMI-CEC (Any-net +) stuff when using optical over HDMI. What happens when I use both HDMI ARC and optical? The TV automatically defaults to HDMI making my optical connection useless. And then I found out about this little doohickey. It actually does allow me to use both the TV ARC and an optical cable together, but now it routes only the audio through the optical cable without trying to default through the HDMI. The only bad thing is- I had to practically turn off all the TV smart features(which I don’t use anyway) because even though now when I go to turn the TV off, my soundbar doesn’t turn off immediately like it did before. It actually has to wait about five minutes before it figures out there’s no incoming signal but, after everything‘s been turned off for a while, when I go to turn on my TV whether I’m using the TVs remote or my Apple TV’s remote, the TV still does turn on the soundbar and after turning off my TV smart features, I don’t have to go into my TV settings anymore and change the audio output from the TV speakers to the soundbar so all in all, this little adapter does work. Unfortunately, it’s not exactly like it was when I was using the TV ARC but for everything else I can do, I’ll take it. Not only that, being that I found out my TV can’t properly pass Dolby digital 5.1 to my sound bar using an HDMI cable- even if I go into my Apple TV settings and change the audio output from LPCM to Dolby digital 5.1; the only way to properly do that between the TV and the sound bar is through an optical cable.

Ich habe eine Evercade VS-R Spielekonsole und diese hat scheinbar eine fehlerhafte HDMI-CEC Implementierung. Ganz zu schweigen davon, dass das Gerät offiziell überhaupt kein HDMI-CEC unterstützt. In jedem Fall funktioniert die HDMI-CEC Kette zwischen meinem TV, meiner Soundbar und der Streamingbox nicht mehr, sobald das Evercade VS-R via HDMI an den TV angeschlossen und das Gerät ausgeschaltet (!) ist. Wenn die Evercade VS-R hingegen angeschalten ist, wird die HDMI-CEC Kette nicht mehr unterbrochen. Irre. Die Lösung ist dieser Adapter hier: Seither habe ich das oben beschrieben Problem nicht mehr, es jedoch selbstverständlich bereits dem Hersteller Blaze Entertainment gemeldet.

This worked! My receiver has the tv, cable box and DVD player connected. The tv was trippin with all these devices. I put the adapter on the hdmi port for the DVD player (path: reciever >DVD port>adapter>hdmi to DVD player>DVD player) and now the DVD player is longer in the mix and not confusing the system. My tv and cable box are straight into the reciever, arc is turned on, no optical cable. Volume is controlled by the one remote-Sony tv remote. The only messy bit is when the DVD player is used, I have to use the reciever remote to select that input. We rarely use it so it's very much a non issue. I would highly suspect you'd need one of these for each additional component. Equipment : Sony Bravia X85J Pioneer VSX-822 reciever Bell Fibre Op Motorola cable box Lindy CEC less hdmi Adapter (