Emulating HDMI-CEC devices, sub networks, or messages, including selecting the properties of an HDMI-CEC device to be emulated from at least two devices representing different functionalities, and initiating spoofed CEC messages. One of the methods includes selecting an initiator CEC logical address to emulate, and initiating a CEC message comprising the selected CEC logical address that is not unregistered logical address and does not represent a functionality of the device that actually initiated the CEC message.