poole dorset united kingdom key people martin ellis managing director 1 products set top boxes remote controls computer hardware and peripherals website www.pulse eight.com pulse eight limited pulse eight is a hardware designer and manufacturer based in the united kingdom producing consumer electronics for the home entertainment and custom install industry . 2 pulse eight designs manufactures and retails bespoke hardware solutions primarily designed for kodi media centre software . 3 4 on 22 october 2012 it was reported that pulse eight had bought the tvonics brand and the technology behind tvonics dvrs from tvonics solutions limited who had collapsed into administration in june 2012 . 5 6 contents 1 hardware products 1.1 video matrixes 2 software products 2.1 pulseos 2.2 libcec 3 see also 4 references 5 external links hardware products edit pulse eight s first major product line was a remote control dubbed nyxboard hybrid made by motorola designed for use within xbmc now kodi 7 8 and other media center software packages a custom htpc set top box pre installed with xbmc that they call pulsebox 9 10 and a usb and hdmi cec adapter designed in house 11 12 13 with additional smaller lines utilising components from zotac . video matrixes edit since 2012 pulse eight has focused on developing video matrixes via an odm model their principle customer was hdanywhere developing a modular solution that won numerous awards 14 however since 2015 these products have been made available under the pulse eight brand 15 software products edit pulseos edit pulse eight used to offer a performance tuned free and open source embedded operating system that they call pulseos designed to run on their pulsebox hardware platform however since the discontinuation of their dedicated hardware the software enhancements have been merged with the main kodi codebase libcec edit libcec is an enabling platform for the cec bus in hdmi it allows developers to interact with other hdmi devices without having to worry about the communication overhead handshaking and the various ways of sending a message for each vendor this software is free and open source available from github 16 see also edit tvonics xbmc media center home theater pc remote control smart tv references edit 1 contact us pulse eight engadget motorola nyxboard surfaces from the dead xbmc reclaims it update tested motorola made xbmc remote now available for presale http www.reghardware.com 2012 10 22 pulse eight acquires tvonics brand for xbmc box xbmc coders acquire tvonics brand http www.reghardware.com 2012 06 27 administrator looking to sell off tvonics kit administrator eyes dvr firesale after tvonics collapse engadget motorola nyxboard surfaces from the dead xbmc reclaims it update tested motorola made xbmc remote now available for presale pulsebox out 10 october pulsebox xbmc based home theatre pc home theatre redefined http www.anandtech.com show 5463 pulseeight usb cec adapter review pulse eight usb cec 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