# Cubox-M and CEC **URL:** \ **Category:** NXP i.MX8M Plus\ **Created:** [January 8, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.solid-run.com/t/cubox-m-and-cec/214 "2022-01-08T22:42:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skelos](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.solid-run.com/skelos/32/82_2.png) [@Skelos](https://community.solid-run.com/u/Skelos)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.solid-run.com/t/cubox-m-and-cec/214/1 "2022-01-08T22:42:26Z")
Hello. I’m Solidrun customer from long time ago. I bought my first cubox (Armada) more or less 10 years ago and in 2015 the second one Cubox-i 4x4 (4 core x 4GB ram) I use It with geexbox distro (but I don’t update It from longtime) and I found HDMI CEC functionality very comfortable. Now I’m looking for an upgrade of Cubox-i 4x4 basicly because It doesn’t support h265 hardware decoding and because USB 2.0 doesn’t have an high transfer rate. I thinking to the top Cubox-M. So the questions: What software for Cubox-M supports CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) and work fine with It? Cubox-M supports h265 decoding (I think yes)? Cubox-M supports 4K fluid resolution? Thanks in Advance. Sk. ---
**Author:** ![jnettlet](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.solid-run.com/jnettlet/32/62_2.png) [@jnettlet](https://community.solid-run.com/u/jnettlet)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 8:10am UTC](https://community.solid-run.com/t/cubox-m-and-cec/214/2 "2022-01-09T08:10:00Z")
I have verified that CEC is functional with the standard cec-client command-line tool. The Cubox-M does support h265/HEVC decoding however only up to 1080p60 video format. It does support 4K30 resolution output. I hope that helps you, please let me know if you need any other questions answered. ---
**Author:** ![Skelos](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.solid-run.com/skelos/32/82_2.png) [@Skelos](https://community.solid-run.com/u/Skelos)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://community.solid-run.com/t/cubox-m-and-cec/214/3 "2022-01-09T12:10:15Z")
Wonderful! Thanks a loro for your quick reply. Ok for the command line tool but It not clear for me if now there are operating systems for Cubox-M ready to use CEC and easy to config. In my past experience geexbox was able to get TV remote commands in few config steps. I have to check if geexbox supports Cubox-M but, if not, I can use CEC with Debian as operating system? Or there are other OS alteady ready? ---
**Author:** ![jnettlet](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.solid-run.com/jnettlet/32/62_2.png) [@jnettlet](https://community.solid-run.com/u/jnettlet)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 12:48pm UTC](https://community.solid-run.com/t/cubox-m-and-cec/214/4 "2022-01-09T12:48:30Z")
Currently we support Yocto and Debian, however we have had a couple of discussions with the LibreElec community regarding adding support. I have it on my list to test their experimental iMX8 support. Perhaps I will shoot that in a video and post that to our channel. Otherwise I will just update you here in the forums. ---
**Author:** ![Skelos](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.solid-run.com/skelos/32/82_2.png) [@Skelos](https://community.solid-run.com/u/Skelos)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.solid-run.com/t/cubox-m-and-cec/214/5 "2022-01-09T16:39:21Z")
Could be fantastic if you can make a video with all examples: Yocto , Debian and LibreElec. Just few steps of each of them. This will contribute significantly to choosing Cubox-M for my upgrade. Let me know in this post if you can/choose to do this way. Thanks.