Androo

Hello again, Respectfully, the take-away here IMHO as a Flirc newbie is: there are two conflicting sets of installation instructions provided by Flirc. https://docs.flirc.io/flirc-usb/Installation/Linux Installation Guide/ https://flirc.tv/pages/flirc-usb-linux-downloads The first & most obvious starting point should be (ideally) updated, or removed. Unsurprisingly, I went to the first because it's the "Linux installation guide"! but it's outdated. I didn't catch there was a second set of instructions at the bottom of the download page, because I just looked for the download link thinking I already had the instructions. That failing, I jumped into the forum and here we are. If the instructions were in the obvious place (1), I would have been set up in minutes and you both could have been spared meeting me ;) Thanks for your help. Now that I have it set up, I'm very pleased with it. Happy holidays & best wishes for the new year. Andrew

Hello @jason, I was not able to get the device working just by running the appimage, though that did seem to run fine. It just said "Disconnected" with no indication of how to remedy. Following the recommendation to follow Koprze's instructions, I got it working but didn't try to figure out what was needed or not, I just went through the steps & noted what was different for my situation. I would kindly recommend you update the instructions for Linux users to reflect the intended installation as I expect others will find this somewhat frustrating, too. Kind regards, Andrew

Thanks @Tes, Some notes: On Linux Mint 22.2 Zara (base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble) step 5, creating a symlink to libreadline.so.8 wasn't needed step 6. Install other dependencies. (not all will install, but don't afraid and continue) the following do not install: libhid, qt5-qtbase, qt5-qtsvg, and hidapi ran Flirc without sudo and was prompted to update firmware, which was essential to getting the device to connect. It wouldn't connect at all before. no errors during key-mapping the remote. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get it to work in desktop applications. I was trying to learn from the "knowledge base" https://flirc.zendesk.com/ but that seems to be a dead-end for me. The support link from the GUI takes me to a user login in that same domain but there's nowhere to sign-up.

Hello, new user here. Just got my first flircs and am off to a pretty disappointing start. I found this thread after trying to follow the outdated and obviously incorrect install instructions: https://docs.flirc.io/flirc-usb/Installation/Linux Installation Guide These instructions seriously need to be updated to prevent wasting people's time. If the appimage is the only working form for Linux, then just say so and remove all doubts. That appimage seems to run but I have yet to try setting things up and the "user manual" isn't really instructive. I really didn't expect this to be such a time-sink. I shouldn't have to dig through forums just to get started. I'm guessing that the GUI will let me start pairing keys to functions, but I ran out of time today. Are there instructions for setup with the GUI? If so, please share a link. Kind regards, Androo