- HDMI CEC Less Adapter (4K UHD, ARC, Ethernet, Male to Female CEC Blocker) - Compatible with HDTV, TV Stick, Chromecast, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PS5, PC, Soundbar

Solved eARC audio problem with Spectrum box! BlueRigger CEC Adapter installed at Spectrum cable box solved audio drop out issue that prevented eARC from working (at all) & (even) corrected Optical output drop-out through Samsung OLED TV to my Yamaha Home Theatre Receiver

Worked great with my anthem Avm70 4k it always defaulted to PS5 because I’m using eARC From an LGOLEDG5

A lifesaver for this MiSTer FPGA user! My TV ecosystem works again. No negative effect on audio or video quality. Easy to install, took like 5 seconds. Connects just like an HDMI cable

We've had our audio guy for 35+ years, one of the best in the industry around our area. He installed all new equipment and advised us to get this particular adapter so that our TV box would turn off each time. He installed it and since that point, it requires us to once again login to our internet connection and then the whole system freezes. We unhook the adapter and everything is normal again. We will personally look each time to ensure the system is turned off when leaving town for a while. Ended up returning them.

I use an HDMI splitter to share a KScape player in two rooms. In one of the rooms, I use a Sonos Arc Ultra with an LG TV. Unfortunately, to use eARC, CEC must be turned on in the TV. CEC was then causing the TV in the room room and an Apple TV in the other room to be linked inappropriately. I spent a lot of time and money looking for a solution. Someone suggested this device on a Reddit forum and I immediately bought it. It worked perfectly to break the unwanted CEC connection. It is such a cheap solution compared to the eARC HDMI switches I was trying!

Worker as intended. It blocks a CEC. Ended up returning it since it did not resolve my Samsung Soundbar dropping arc. I ended up settling and turned bitstream off and going back to pcm. With this product just be mindful of your HDMI port location as its basically the size of the bulky end of your typical HDMI cable. You might not have enough room to run your HDMI cord or need something with a right angle.

With my pc hooked up to my 8k older but amazing TCL 65R648; Can you tell I am one of those lucky 1200 buyer's?; This works great and even the 8k comes through. First time I have seen the boot process on the pc.

Cuts out the CEC. This fixed the issue with the Evercade VSR not allowing other devices sharing the hdmi switcher to send a signal. Worked like charm!

I bought this to stop my new mini pc from turning off everytime I turned my TV off. I have a Bose speaker hooked up to the HDMI (arc) plug on my tv and HDMI-Cec on, otherwise I’d have to change the settings for my sound each time to use the speaker. I log in remotely to my mini pc sometimes so was annoyed to find the it had turned off. This little adapter stops signal from turning my pc off everytime I turned off my tv. I’ve bought a second one for my other tv where I run 2 HomePods through my Apple TV as my tv speakers. When I turn on the tv, it always turns on the last device used, and if it’s my Apple TV box, i can’t turn the Apple TV box off without turning my tv off again. So this should fix that also.

Good quality. Able to upscale the picture with 3D. Not suitable for all devices. A good choice for anyone who has a reputed device.

This adapter is a life saver. My TV Box now no longer interferes with AV receiver’s audio from the TV over HDMI ARC. Earlier, I accidentally discovered that the Sony Bravia’s audio worked with Yamaha 7.2 AV receiver only with the TV Box disconnected. The TV box’s HDMI CEC feature was supposedly causing the ARC “handshake” between TV, AV receiver and TV Box to malfunction. There was no audio from AV receiver. While searching on google, I came across a blog that pointed to this CEC-less HDMI adapter. Realizing the root cause of the problem, I was certain this adapter would do the job. I ordered this a week ago and it arrived today in Dubai. I tested connections this evening and all works perfectly now. I am so happy. This adapter can connect to the TV-end or the TV box-end of the HDMI cable. It doesn’t matter. Make sure you first determine what device is causing the problem and then use this adapter to block CEC signal on that particular HDMI device and cable.

My Samsung Q870A/XY soundbar has worked with my Samsung TU8000 TV for a long time without issue. Have always used the eARC function so I can control soundbar, TV and NVIDIA Shield Pro using the Shield (or Samsung TV) controller. For some reason that eARC / CEC functionality suddenly stopped working and my Samsung TV no longer recognised by Samsung soundbar. Perhaps it was a firmware update on one of the two devices, HDMI handshake issues or a device introduced a CEC conflict? After much painful power cycling, HDMI cable testing, HDMI cable swapping, general diagnostics and forum trawling I worked out what the issue was. If only the soundbar was connected by HDMI to the TV eARC HDMI port then soundbar and TV worked. As soon as any other device was connected to HDMI 1 or HDMI 3 (the non eARC spare inputs on my TV) the soundbar would drop off and wouldn’t be ‘seen’ by the TV. That’s when I learned about my new nemesis: PIN 13 in HDMI causing issues with unwanted CEC signals. Yes, as described on some websites you could get some pliers and a magnifying glass out to prise out the offending pin on one of your cables, or you could carefully tape over pin 13 with electrical tape. Realistically though, why would you risk messing up thousands of dollars worth of equipment in lieu of testing a $14 delivered solution with free returns? Anyway, I bought 2 of these for the 2 non-eARC HDMI inputs on my TV and everything worked immediately. I now have my Switch and PS4 rigged up with the soundbar fully working on all sources with Atmos. Why Samsung and other AV companies don’t suggest testing CEC-less adapters as part of the troubleshooting process is beyond me. I don’t normally bother leaving reviews, but this problem was ‘doing my head in’ so I’m leaving as much detail as possible to help anyone else in a similar boat. I’d say if most of the above sounds familiar to you (even with different branded equipment) then this device could well be the solution you’re looking for. Good luck!

I had been having problems with a new Free sat box which was switching other HDMI connected devices on and off at random, it was driving me nuts and I was going to scrap the new Free sat box to stop the problems, then I found this and straight away it cured all the HDMI issues I was Getting. Great little adapter to stop HDMI Issues.