HDMI CEC - Controlling the Xbox via TV remote

You can control your Set Top Box (STB) if it supports HDMI-CEC. You maybe able to control your TV, but again it needs to support HDMI-CEC.

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Some STBs do not feature HDMI-CEC protocol (e.g. Sky HD STB), which means it can't be controlled via Xbox One. You need a Sky remote.

ARC is Audio Return Channel. It allows a TV's audio to be sent back to the attached receiver via the HDMI Out of the receiver instead of having to run a separate audio line from the TV to the receiver. It's intended for use when using a TV's internal tuner
via an attached antenna or cable source.



HDMI CEC is what allows your TV's remote to control other components without actually programming the remote with the code for the other devices.



HDMI CEC pre-dates ARC by several revisions. Unfortunately, few things take advantage of it.

To take full advantage the cable/ TV box will need to be HDMI CEC. This will give Xbox One the ability to change channels via the Xbox One TV guide. If not CEC you will have to use TV box remote to change channels.

Do you connect your Satellite TV box through the Xbox One (via the HDMI In port)?

The Xbox One doesn't have any Bluetooth functionality. So it's not the actual remote control turning on the console, but probably the HDMI CEC being
sent from your TV box.

the xbox does not support cec or hdmi control, you would need to go to tv setting on the xbox and setup tv control again as it may have lost the code, the xbox controls tv's via infrared only.