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Chip, laying on Kristen’s lap, in the living room. A couple years after putting together the HDMI-CEC to Onkyo RI Bridge I decided to give it a bit of an update and subtle name change. There were a couple problems that I wanted to fix: The PR for adding Onkyo RI support to ESPHome (#7117) worked, but it didn’t get much attention, fell behind, and it’d been rejected when it aged out. So, a new ESPHome build couldn’t use it. Occasionally, usually in the middle of the night, the Home Assistant automation keying off of the Apple TV waking up would turn on the lights in the living room. The Apple TV seemed to wake a little bit for a firmware check, and a false positive in my HDMI-CEC watcher would trigger on this, turning on the lights and receiver. Onkyo receivers also send data out the RI port, but I hadn’t tested receiving data from a device. The name was also changed from “HDMI-CEC to Onkyo RI” to “HDMI-CEC and Onkyo RI” to better reflect that this bridges these two separate things…

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