[zebraitis]

Hi folks,

I'm posting this in the KODI Windows forum because I'm using KODI on Windows.   If this should be in a different forum, my apologies.  Feel free to move it (but please let me know where).

Besides Kodi and Windows, I also use a Harmony One or Harmony 900 to control many of my devices.  If that wasn't enough, now I want to throw the FLIRC Gen2 IR Receiver in the mix.

In short, I seem to be a bit lost with the whole how-do-I-do-that thing.


Now from what I have seen over at FLIRC, they say:

1)  Just plug it in to Windows and it works.  (see https://flirc.gitbooks.io/flirc-instruct...ation.html )

2) Then, they say:  just set it up in Harmony software (I use the old v7), and it works ( see https://flirc.gitbooks.io/flirc-instruct...-xbmc.html )

So, it's in a front facing USB port, with the FLIRC added into a KODI configured activity in Harmony software, and...... nothing.  


I had been using the HP IR Media Center receiver, and it was working fine, but to make that work in Harmony I had to map many keys to the expected results.

But what I see over at FLIRC, it doesn't say anything about mapping keys...  or enabling anything within Kodi (add-on, etc) to make it work.

Please, throw a guy a bone here...  what am I missing?    

[scott967]

From what I know, FLIRC looks like a media keyboard to Kodi.  Assuming the Harmony codes cause FLIRC to output keyboard key presses, Kodi keyboard.xml should convert these to Kodi actions.  Debug-enabled logging should show the key presses being received if you review kodi.log.

scott s.
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[AndyHenderson]

The FLIRC has several built-in controllers (FLIRC configurations). Run the Flirc app and use the Controllers menu to see them.

They include one for the Media Centre controller and another to emulate a keyboard.

All the controller support learning presses and for mapping them. You can map to keyboard presses but also system commands.

Andy

[zebraitis]

Thanks for the replies.  I will get started on that later today (...  lawn to mow.  )

For those that may be looking at this thread sometime in the future, here's a not-so-great tip:

When I added Flirc to my Harmony 900 devices and attempted to create a "Test Kodi" activity...  doing so overwrote the current keymapping that I had in my existing "Watch Kodi" activity.  Worse yet, it overwrote it completely blank.

So, it looks like since Flirc simulates the keyboard activity (and I already HAD a keyboard simulator setup to make my harmony work with the HP IR receiver) , moving to Flirc seems to be an all-or-nothing thing on my Harmony remote.

This definitely affects the wife-acceptance-factor of this change.  

Temporarily removed Flirc device, reentered all my keymapping.   grrrrr....