[Flirc with Android TV]

I've found with mine while alt+esc seems to work, it doesn't work as expected in some apps (plex for example)

 

Cheers Rob.

I tried with Kodi (formally XBMC) and within a movie but didn't try anywhere else. Do you have a list of apps it didn't work with?

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Just to followup and confirm. I just tried the media play/pause/FF/RW buttons on my flirc using this chart and the record_api command to set the keys.

 

Rewind puts the Nexus player to sleep

Fast forward did nothing

Play toggled play and pause

Pause did nothing

Stop did nothing

 

I tried all the keys while playing back media just to verify. I'm going to update my post in the other thread just so no one gets confused.

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Just an Update because I also belive this will also apply to the "Nexus Player" which has just been released (has a micro usb port with USB OTG cable you will be able to plug in a Flirc)

 

Did you actually get media stop fast forward/rewind to work? I was playing with this on my Nexus player but wasn't playing media at the time so I didn't check if it worked. Esc didn't work for me on the Nexus player to go home (it just goes back). Here's the mappings I found. 

 

I'll try with media FF/RW/STOP later during media playback to make sure they work.

 

My thread also has some keys I found for launching TV, turning the device on/off (sleep), and launching the telephone app (not installed).

 

@Elrondolio Check my thread. There are a couple other links you can follow on how to use flirc_util and what numbers you can use.

[Flirc with Android TV]

Not that it really matters though. Search wouldn't work without a mic and I don't need 2 different ways to get to home.

[Flirc with Android TV]

Alt+esc got the home button!!

 

Although I'm on a mac right now and the command+esc and command+space didn't do home/search. I can try again later from a windows machine but I assume they send the same keys.

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Alright, I went through every button 1-256. It wasn't too bad because I was able to write a quick loop to do 10 at a time and then just ran flirc_util format after each run.

 

I didn't find the the home or search buttons so I'm not sure if there are other keys to try or what that means. Maybe just saying that I'm using a Goldtouch keybard and the fn+f10 does home and fn+f11 does search.

 

Although I didn't find the keys I was looking for, I did find some other interesting keys people may want to check out.

 

All of these are the number before 102.

 

48 = sleep+wake

52/50 = sleep only (no wake)

53 = wake only (no sleep)

65/54/132 = select

66, 67, 68, 69 = up, down, left, right

111/112 = brightness controls (did nothing on my monitor except show the slider)

137 = Launch TV app (which isn't in the menu) but the app crashes immediately and asks to submit a bug

140 = prompted and said "you don't have an app that can do this"

 

 

 

All the other keys I tried 1-256 didn't do anything on the device

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11 102 sends the "back" button but doesn't exit the app or return to the home screen.

 

I tried paring the nexus player's remote with my computer so I could read what input it sends but it won't show up on my computer when in pairing mode. :-/

 

Maybe I'm missing a step. After doing record_api is there anything I need to do to unset that IR code from the keyboard button sent? I have used the same IR code all 3 times and just thought maybe the old keys are still set in the flirc and new keys aren't being used.

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So 154 didn't work. I mapped it and tried pushing the remote key and nothing happened. So instead on my linux machine I ran xev to try and see what code my "home" key was pushing and it showed code 180 (B4 on the list). I tried mapping tat key and it just does a normal exit/backspace. Do you know another way to read the raw input from the keyboard media key? It might be tricky because I have to push function + f12 to get the key. I tried searching for a way to read the raw input but couldn't find anything that worked with the function/media keys so anything else you know of would be a big help.

 

Thanks

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Thanks for the reply. I won't have a chance to check until tonight but I'll let you know when I do.

 

Is there a list somewhere of what the key numbers are (154 102)?

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*UPDATE* Final key mappings I found below

 

I'm got my Flirc working with Android TV. A USB keyboard works just fine with a microUSB adapter. Here's the key mapping I found

up = up
down = down
left = left
right = right
play/pause = enter
back = backspace/esc
search = Super (Windows) - could not map
home = alt+esc (doesn't close apps*)

I got everything working except for search and home. Search isn't really needed because it only accepts voice search by default so it looks for a bluetooth mic to activate which I don't have. No home button is killing me though. I can't exit some apps (XBMC) and can't easily jump between apps.

 

Is there a way to manually map a remote button to the media home button?

 

Just for reference, here's the Nexus Player's remote

 

and here's a quick picture of the adapter + flirc

If someone could help me map the home button this will be perfect.

 

*I found something interesting in that the keyboard shortcuts for home (alt+esc) will not exit apps. When you are within an app it only sends a back keypress. So if the app doesn't have a way to exit within the menu you may be stuck. I tested this with the flirc as well as with a keyboard. The home button on the remote is somehow detected differently when in an app.