CatalinM Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 Hi guys. Just received my Flirc today and I started playing with it right away, but I learned it's a love hate relationship. I planned to use it with my Marantz remote, which has a lot of buttons available and only a handful of useful ones. However, it didn't really work. I think a couple random buttons were picked up, but otherwise, no movement. I have very little info on the Marantz remote, but I would be happy to do some debugging if I could get some pointers to how should I proceed. As a side note, the Sony Bravia remote works great, but it collides with the TV. I'm going to see if I can switch off some functionality from the TV, but I'm not really sure if it's possible. Cheers, Catalin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobuddy0816 Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 What profile in the gui are you using? The keyboard mapping in the gui is a QWERTY mapping, which might not fit to your regional settings from your system. So you program functions, which might cause unwanted funtionality due to this fact. E.g. you want to program "Z" for a button on your remote, but in fact you get the "Y" key (like on a german system keyboard) bound to the flirc, which interprets a different command. This is only for the full keyboard mapping in the gui. All other templates like xbmc etc are working correct. Furthermore your marantz remote might send untypical remote commands, e.g. you press a button and it sends a command and by releasing the button it sends again the same or another command. You can check this, if you point the remote towards your handy cam and look at the flashing bulb in front of your remote. Then compare this with other remotes, like your sony remote. Is there a difference you can notice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatalinM Posted January 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 Hi Nobuddy! I've programmed it using the Linux shell commands, so I don't think it has anything to do with regional settings, but it might use a custom propriatery method of sending commands, because Flirc doesn't seem to pick up many buttons at all. I'll try the camera thing tonight and see how it works ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobuddy0816 Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 As i understand your description, the buttons from your marantz remote will be captured by flirc randomly. so sometimes the same button works and sometimes not? Or are there a couple of buttons are working with flirc and some other not at all? So the test with your handy will show you, if the remote response to the button at all or not. Or even a button will flash the remote randomly/ constantly. I'm looking forward for the result ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatalinM Posted January 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 Ok, just made some tests. I've tried the Sony remote, the Apple remote and the Marantz one. Sony and Apple are kind of the same, but the Marantz seems to have at least 3 pulses (where the other ones had just one), so it's clearly sending out totally different signals. With the Marantz remote, when I try to record a key, only 2 or 3 buttons are picked up by Flirc (constantly, from what I can tell) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatalinM Posted January 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 Small update on the matter. While searching the internets for specs, I found a lot of info on the Marantz remote, seemingly using a standard called RC5x: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=5109AC3D.2020003%40perrache.com&forum_name=lirc-list Would it be possible to add this to Flirc in the (near) future? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatalinM Posted February 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2014 UPDATE: Using the latest Flirc GUI (not the one that's installed by apt-get), the Marantz remote works pretty well (some buttons are not available, but I could get a good working setup out of it). I had to record the buttons twice to get it working, but results are very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobuddy0816 Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 Nice to hear that it works. The lack of functions on some buttons seems to be a remote issue, due to different models of devices within a product range using the same remote, which will modified for the device by firmware, i guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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