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 don’t normally write reviews, but EE TV Box users need to know about this. After a recent EE box firmware update, my TV remote power button became extremely slow and the EE remote (in IR mode) was barely usable. Nothing else in my setup had changed, so the update was clearly the cause. The issue turned out to be corrupted HDMI‑CEC behaviour from the EE box. I use the EE box through a splitter and a long HDMI run, so the CEC problems were affecting the whole chain. This adapter blocks CEC entirely, and it fixed everything: TV remote power button instantly responsive again EE remote back to normal No loss of any features I actually use System stabilised fully within a couple of hours Most reviews mention soundbars or AV receivers, but if you have an EE TV Box and your remote suddenly becomes laggy after an update, this is the fix.

I had awful problems with CEC not working on anything on my LG C4 OLED. By plugging everything out I traced the problem back to a HDMI Splitter (or something connected to it). I fitted this product on to the cable and it worked like magic; all of my other devices started working again perfectly. Highly recommend!

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!

Wish I knew about this device a long time ago. Bought a sony bar 7 to go with my sony tv and kept getting sound and settings issues didn't know why but after a week of trying to sort things out I was told it was my virgin media box messing thing up and told about this hdmi device and straight away it fixed all my issues.

I'd previously bought one of these Lindy adapters from Amazon about 6 years ago and that one works perfectly (currently connected to my Nvdia Shield). As my Fire TV Stick has suddenly started having HDMI CEC issues after the recent update, I thought the easiest solution would be to buy another adapter. I should have spotted that it was being sold by a third party seller (although fulfilled by Amazon) as the price was suspiciously low at £3.99 compared to the direct from Amazon price of £8.70. When the adapter arrived, I plugged it in and it made no difference. Clearly pin 13 isn't isolated and it's a cheap Chinese knock-off being sold as a Lindy adapter (I've never had any issue with Lindy stuff in the past as it's always good quality). I contacted Amazon who immediately offered a refund and I've now ordered the more expensive one supplied directly from Amazon.

I purchased a Lindy HDMI CEC Less Adapter after it was suggested on a forum as a possible fix for the very frequent audio dropouts and black screen issues I was experiencing when watching TV via a VM Stream Box. The adapter arrived promptly, was well packaged and appeared to be of high quality. I removed the existing HDMI cable from the Stream Box (which connects to the TV), plugged the CEC-less adapter into the HDMI port and then connected the HDMI cable to the other end of the adapter. After restarting both the TV and the Stream Box, I selected content on one of the streaming apps and waited… and waited… right through to the end of the film - no dropouts at all! 😅 It has now been 24 hours of heavy TV viewing and I’ve experienced no further issues. It’s finally fixed by this little beauty! 🙏🏻 It’s incredible that such a simple solution resolved a problem that had become a daily frustration, especially with no resolution from VM. Why isn’t this fix more widely publicised, given how common this issue seems to be?

I had a problem with my Sonos beam dropping sound connection with my TV. I asked Copilot and one of the things it suggested was 1. HDMI-CEC Conflicts From Other Devices This is extremely common and often overlooked. Some set-top boxes, game consoles, or streaming sticks send out conflicting CEC signals, which can break the ARC/eARC connection and make the TV fall back to its internal speakers. Fix: Use a CEC-less HDMI adapter on the problematic device. I purchased this item and connected it the HDMI from my dvd player and it has fixed the problem

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

Probleem met Sonos geluidsset opgelost door deze adapter op de 3 andere HDMI aansluitingen te plaatsen. Sonos blijft nu goed via ARC verbonden. Top!

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.

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 (