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January 31, 2011 Uncategorized kwikwai Certified Executive Chiefs

For most domestic scenarios, one kwikwai plugged anywhere in the HDMI path will allow control of all CEC devices in the system. This same kwiwkai also lets you in on the bus chatter, so a smart HA system can figure out what’s going on: for example, some DVD players notify the bus of play and pause events.

Most devices even answer to status queries (some are defined in the CEC protocol), so you can ask them if they’re on or off, playing, paused or recording.

query & control

Quite simply, we’re not sure how one can achieve that sort of control for 2 or more devices from IP for much less, even considering the current currency “crisis” and its negative influence on the USD or EUR price of kwikwai…

And look, ma, no ugly IR sticker on the TV !

CEC-O-MATIC

January 6, 2011 Uncategorized CEC, kwikwai Certified Executive Chiefs

The world is discovering the power of CEC. More and more are using kwikwai harness it. Wonderful !

Kwikwai decodes for you the esoteric language CE devices use to babble. You could even enter the game by sending some messages, if only you knew how…

So we created… TADA ! a web-based encoding and decoding tool for CEC frames. We called it CEC-O-MATIC. It decodes an obscure CEC command into human readable form and vice-versa, automatically !

It’s free for anybody to use, even those unfortunate souls using competing products.

Try it out !

FF:64:00:73:74:61:79:20:74:75:6E:65:64

Announcing 1.0r415

November 25, 2010 Uncategorized Certified Executive Chiefs

So we finally sold some kwikwai, which is great, but our users went and found plenty of nasty bugs. Not so great.

It’s our pleasure to announce release 1.0r415 which should squish most of the known bugs, in particular compatibility with IE7 and a nasty issue where kwikwai would stop returning accurate CEC messages after a while. While we’re at it, we also improved a bit the web GUI. Of course, we have full release notes.

One major change in this version is that kwikwai now embeds its API specs. You can access them, along with the release notes, using the (new) Documentation tab. Since the APIs are likely to evolve, how to best ensure one has the documentation that corresponds to its software version than to embed the documentation in the device ? Consequently, we will remove the documentation from the wiki (but provide a link to the latest version).
For now the APIs are basic raw HTML — you’ll have to bear the early 1990’s look while the fairies conjure some colorful css styling to spruce the docs in the next release!

And, yeah, you know where we are if ever, you know, some minor detail was overlooked by our QA department…

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