jason
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Of course, everyone should have a meter ;)
Before grounding I was seeing 1~1.5v floating around on the shield.
How about the following, can you measure resistance 1 and resistance 2 in the pic attached?
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Of course, everyone should have a meter ;)
Before grounding I was seeing 1~1.5v floating around on the shield.
I have a crystal on my PCB, it's the metal box. The top of the metal is grounded. What's the resistance between the shield of the USB and the top of the crystal. (Do this when it's not plugged in).
Then can you check your USB mating shield on your motherboard with the ground your connecting the flirc to?
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I don't get it, my shield is grounded. so if your computer grounded the mating shields, it should be fine....
Anyone have a multimeter?
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I should have founded this topic earlier, I had the same problem and figured out on my self that it had to do with ground (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2731590&page=3)
I posted it on XDA, I fixed it for now like this:
so you soldered your ground on your outlet to the USB connector?
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Yes you need the latest release which is 1.2.7 and firmware 3.0
Go to advanced and click on sequence modifiers
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The manufacturing process, ends up putting the USB connector on a bit bent. That seems a bit extreme, I'll have to look into it, however, functionally wise it should be fine. You can even bend it back a bit, it's not going to hurt it. I apologize and I'll send one to you when I can address it. Shoot me an email at support at flirc dot tv.
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really sorry you had trouble. I'm not sure why the device got stuck in the bootloader and more so, why windows always has trouble installing drivers. Honestly, I regret doing custom drivers, windows has been a nightmare and end up spending 90% of my time trying to figure out why windows is doing something stupid.
I hope it's working now, and I hope it was worth the trouble. It's just me here, so sorry for my delay.
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did you pair your remote using the firetv gui window in my application?
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I would love to say it's supported on 8.1, and although it works on my copy, I'm afraid to say there are some pretty consistent problems with it. This is the main one. I have yet an opportunity to look into why. If there is another machine you have, you can do the pairing with your remote, then it should work just fine on 8.1 with your previously paired remote.
Does that make sense?
I'm really sorry, I just need the time to reproduce it, which I haven't had yet.Have you tried running the installer or the gui in compatibility mode?
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Turns out it's because I set the keyboard layout to "fr" in OpenELEC. Setting it back to "us" fixed the behaviour.
would have never guessed that. Awesome you figured it out and thanks for posting the results.
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the firetv is a proprietary RF remote
Flirc only understands IR (infrared)
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No idea. I can look into it. What version are you using if ff?
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what power button are you referring too? On my GUI? Which button?
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I'm not having trouble figuring out what additional keyboard keys / functions various FireTV apps support beyond the basic 11; instead, I'm trying to figure out how I pass that info to the Flirc. In other words, once I figure out which keyboard keys and functions I need to map (as you say), what do I do with that information?
I'm sure I'm missing something really obvious here, so apologies for not grokking how I add keys/functions to the Flirc. Hmmm, I'll bet it's as simple as choosing Controllers->Full Keyboard and recording additional functions through that GUI. Am I right?
-Randy
Controllers-> keyboard.
Then manually pair the key combinations
That make sense?
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I think I'm too stupid to figure out how to "just teach it with the Flirc app." Running the app and selecting the Controller->Fire TV menu option appears to limit me to teaching it IR codes for the Fire TV's basic 11 buttons only...
How do I teach it Channel Up and Channel Down, for example, when there are no Channel Up or Down buttons to "record?" Is there another app I should be using?
-Randy
Amazon offers you only those buttons on their remote. It's possible there are other buttons supported, but it's not clear which.
Since flirc is sending keyboard keys, just figure out which keyboard keys and functions you need to map. You can hook up a keyboard and try and figure out the keys, but each app could be different.
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Mine is behind my television on a wallmount and doesn't skip a bit. It will be absolutely fine behind the computer. I have not made an announcement yet, but there is an option that might be better, although not sure it's going to work with the case you have:
http://www.streacom.com/news-item/introducing-flirc-se/
I will be making the announcement in the next day or so, it's a second product made for going inside cases that support internal IR modules.
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I might have a related issue - on my Win7 HTPC, I installed the drivers and updated to 3.0. The flirc was accepting configurations and everything looked like it would work, but when I tested it on a notepad file, the remote would not navigate or type the numbers 0-9, or do anything.
Finally I plugged in an actual keyboard (my normal configuration has NO keyboard installed), and the flirc immediately started working.
Please post back if your issue was resolved.
Very strange, not sure why the stystem would need a keyboard, I'll try and reproduce that.
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You're right, Jason. The flirc was showing up in the Device Manager under "Universal Serial Bus devices" instead of "Keyboards". I have reinstalled it so that the generic HID Keyboard Device is present when the flirc is inserted (so now there's two HID devices), but it still isn't connecting.
let's do a remote session.
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yes, as long as they have different remotes paired, otherwise you'll get double key's paired.
Make sure you're on the latest firmware, 3.0, and that you have sleep detection enabled in the Advanced settings menu of my GUI. -
Use the media center keys in the GUI to do the pairing. See the attached.
Sincerely,
Jason
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okay, so there `are actually two devices inside flirc to the computer. A generic USB device which is the keyboard, and a special device you talk to. If the GUI isn't finding the device, it is not seeing the special device.
Can you expand the keyboard tab in system device manager, do you see the flirc device there? You'll know if you disconnect it. Otherwise, it's just having a problem reading the device and enumerating properly.
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When you fire up the GUI, is the device recognized?
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can you post your saved configuration?
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I'm sorry, I missed some of your post. You might just need to reboot, make sure the GUI is closed to, if it's opened it might be holding the device hostage.
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sorry, it's just me here, and I was really sick this last week.
send me an email via the support site. Definitely didn't waist your money, I'll make sure to make it right. I'll get a replacement out to you as soon as possible. I'm really sorry for the delay.