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1. Flirc xbmc harmony update#
2. Flirc xbmc harmony full#
3. Flirc xbmc harmony software#
4. Flirc xbmc harmony tv#

Skip the first screen and select Yes and select the MCE remote and select the option shown here:Īnd on the next screen you select 0 instead of 1 (as it was in my case): Go to the device options in the Harmony software, select your activity and select Troubleshoot. So you’ll have to check your settings and get rid of it if necessary. But for Flirc it just works counter productive. I can’t blame Logitech for this as I just selected a MCE remote based system earlier which probably needs this. In my case with Flirc, the remote was sending the commands two times and Flirc picked this up most of the time. Ok, but first, Kodi needs to function with the basic remote keys and it turned out that some extra settings need looked into.Īs Logitech writes on their site the remote is often configured to repeat commands which some receivers need to work correctly.

Flirc xbmc harmony full#

For example, I mapped the 7 and 8 keys to subtitle delay and forward under full screen playback so you can use them for other purposes in an other Kodi activity. The addon is a very useful tool to map more functions to your Harmony. I used the Kodi Kodi keymap addon to map the not working keys thus deviating from the original Kodi keymap in a couple of cases. So then I placed the receiver further backwards to get some more shielding from my TV.įor me, most keys now worked just fine although some still gave problems.

Flirc xbmc harmony tv#

This turned out to be a problem as the plasma tv turned out to be interfering with the IR signal making control of Kodi difficult. In my case, I first used an USB cable to get the Flirc receiver in the line of site of my remote sitting just next to my plasma TV. Now you’re good to go to do some testing with Flirc attached to your Kodi machine. Now there’s another important setting in the Flirc tool under the file / advanced settings: Configure the Inter-Key Delay to 5 or higher as shown here.Īt the moment, I can’t recommend using the other settings but your mileage may vary. When you’re done programming you can check the behaviour by opening a text editor on your computer and press all the keys to see if they’ve been mapped correctly and correct them if necessary. So, when you press the STOP button the X key lights up in the Flirc desktop application. So, for example, map the STOP key to the X by pressing the X on the virtual keyboard and press your stop on your Logitech’s remote while it’s pointed at the Flirc dongle. You’re now ready to start programming the keys described by the Kodi documentation Then, select full keyboard from the controllers menu and now the screen looks like this: I also recommend that you select the clear configuration option from there as well.

Flirc xbmc harmony update#

So, startup the Flirc utility, which you already should have installed from the Flirc downloads page, and check the file menu and update the firmware if there’s a newer version available. When ready, Update the remote and enter the activity when everything’s ready so you can program the Flirc dongle. Check the “Customise buttons” option and make sure that all buttons, that you want to use, are mapped to the MCE device. I assume that you’re aware how you can setup an activity in the Logitech remote so configure the remote with the MCE machine as the “video device”. Or maybe selecting another MCE remote setup from Logitech’s database works just fine for you? Please note: I don’t say that you have to use a MCE remote, maybe it will work just fine with another remote which you already have. I don’t know how the others will do but here’s a link to get you started: Ebay It turned out that the codes from Logitech’s database were causing most of the problems and I used a cheap MCE remote (from Ebay) to learn all the keys:

Now comes an important part, it turns out that the keys are working, but just as stated above, the behaviour was erratic and I ended up with a setup which I couldn’t use. I just took a HP machine and then you have a nice mapping with all the keys you need.

Flirc xbmc harmony software#

Should be simple without any messing around with Flirc (as I’m writing about Kodi on a raspberry Pi)…? It still takes some time to get it to work and with this post I’d like to share my experiences how I got I did this.įirst of all, I created an activity in the Harmony software and added a multimedia PC keyboard. So in theory you can use the default keyboard setup with Kodi and have Flirc do the task of translating the codes to key presses. Flirc is an USB dongle which presents itself as a keyboard.

It often ends up with erratic key presses, repeating or not it’s even not working. Getting a Harmony remote to correctly work with Kodi can be difficult.