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Same problem also here with same setup. Interkey 0 and noise cancelling helped a bit, but often when pressing up und down the command is issued twice. Latest FW 3.1 running with Fire TV profile.

Hi, Do you know how to use command line? There is an executable called flirc_util.exe in Flirc folder (on Windows) or just flirc_util under Linux and OS X. You can try running it like that: flirc_util.exe record_api 154 102 (remove .exe from the command name in case of Linux and OS X). After you press enter it will wait for a remote button to be pressed like in the GUI. Please let me know if this works.

Hey, I've got a lot of troubles with my Flirc. For beginning, it didn't function at all under Win7, GUI crashed immediately. After searching for a while the problem was a WD external HD, it sounds totally funny, but after the WD was connected to the external USB3 port, and the Flirc to an internal USB2 the Gui crashed. After connecting the WD to an external USB2 port, the problem was gone. Making any sense, not at all, but it was the solution! But now if installed Win 8.1. Flirc is correct installed, and functions. But i can't program it, can't bind keys, can't delete keys, nothing at all. When is use the command based version of Flirc, it telles me that the Firmware version=V240.240 . I think it isn't able to write and read from the Flirc, if i change a setting, Interkey Delay, it isn't saving the value. Anybody with tips? Running in win 7 modus doesn't help.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "remote profile." I launch Flirc. I select Full Keyboard, because I need to teach it keyboard commands such as Command F1 through Command F5 and Option F1 through Option F5, plus Command ESC, and so on. I'm not pairing Flirc with Boxee or Plex. I'm using Flirc to trigger keyboard commands that control various applications. I checked Advanced Settings, and Noise Canceler isn't checked. I'm not suggesting Flirc doesn't work. I'm just finding that it often misses commands if the remote isn't pointed enough in its direction, and I'm surprised because it sits next to my Mac's IR receiver which has no trouble picking up commands even if the remote is pointed nowhere near it.

First of all is the Flirc below the "line of sight" when you take the IR signal bouncing from the wall in front of the couch? What I mean is you point the remote in the direction of the stereo and it bounces from the wall and goes back. If not you could use an USB extender cable to rise the Flirc higher so it can see the bounced signal. I have my Flirc out of the line of sight from the remote (actually in another room next to the one with TV) and I get 100% reception of the IR signal when pointing remote at the TV (it bounces of at least one wall). It also depends on the power of the remote's IR LED. Now to your question. Short answer: yes, it's possible with some amount of work. Long answer: It depends on the firmware of your router. Are you using OpenWRT or some other custom firmware? I'll base my answer on OpenWRT as it is most popular and open router firmware. There is a daemon (service) called triggerhappy. It's available in package repository for OpenWRT so it's installation should be easy but you need to be comfortable with using Linux terminal. Triggerhappy allows you to catch events from an input device (like keyboard) and execute your own scripts upon them. Next you would need some software or script on both devices (the router and the Mac) which would allow to push events over the network. I'm not familiar with Mac applications so I can't help you with this part. For Windows I would use EventGhost which has network input plugin (acts as a server and allows event generating clients to connect to it and push events to it). I also see a way to keep the wake key functionality. It requires the ability to wake the computer with Wake-on-LAN magic packet (most modern computers do) and just map the power button to wol command in the triggerhappy config.

Alongside some back-and-forth with Jason (THANKS man!) -- I blew away 2 of my 3 flircs (in very similar fashion to the process you used, maxwell), and additionally made an adjustment to my Harmony 650 per the instructions here: http://support.myharmony.com/en/article.htm?faqid=s-a-2158&ref=s-ts-3001--a-3-3& There, I changed Device Command Repeats to 0 (from 1) for the Flirc Media Player device. After some testing I handed the remote back over to the missus, who is usually the best test case ever. She didn't manage to cause repeating keys, so I'm cautiously optimistic. edit=fired it up this morning and unfortunately I'm hitting the bug again.

Hi Guys Thanks for all the useful information in this thread. I started on the journey with a harmony 650 and the flirc xbmc profile. The latest gui (3.1 at this point) takes away almost all the pain for XBMC. The only place where I got stuck was - The amazon fire home button - couldn't get it to work with the command line mapping to 101 - Solved The back button for amazon fire (the return button works fine for xbmc) - Not Solved If anyone is looking for a solution to home button not working with 101 - I ended up using 69 ( in the command ;) ) as follows - flirc_util.exe record_api 0 69 The logic behind that number is this post here which maps all key presses to their codes - Additional details for logitech Harmony or anyone trying to troubleshoot remote key presses- As mentioned, I was working with a Logitech Harmony 650. I waanted to map the Menu button with Home and exit button with back for fire tv (not XBMC). For a while I tried a few other buttons and couldn't see any of them even registered on the remote as sending anything. If you understand the harmony remote universe, I was trying this within an activity for watching movies - i.e. while the remote was working in a combined mode of sending key presses for volume commands to the amp and any media key presses to flirc+aftv etc. To be able to see what exactly the remote was doing, I installed eventghost (free). If you have used it you would know what its for, if you haven't - suffice it to say it can be used to program your windows OS (and therefore XBMC on windows) to map remote buttons to specific actions. So the setup was - My laptop running wondows + eventghost and flirc plugged in to the laptop. I also enabled the keyboard plugin on eventghost so that it listens and translates to flirc events as keyboard events. That would mean that any keypresses on my harmony were seen by flirc Passed to EG and displayed on screen as keyboard event they represented. Result - Part 1 - Event-ghost confirmed that the menu and exit keys on my remote were not doing anything. For this one, I used the harmony software to include these keys for my chosen activity (watch movies). The action on these buttons could be anything for now, as I wanted to just ensure that the keys were working. (For good measure, I also added these two menu options to the onscreen menu on lLogitech but you can ignore that ) Part 2 - Now that the buttons were firing, I needed to map them to send in whatever fire tv receives as a home button. I repeated the command line option in the thread so that the button press would be seen as F12. Maybe I tried it too many times but for some reason I couldnt get EG to report it as F12. It would either be registered as something else or an F12 followed by two returns. That is when I did some more digging and got to the post mentioned above with details on key presses and their numerical equivalents. Ultimately, I got to see F12 and it works. Part 3 - For some reason though, I still couldnt get the whole thing to work for back button. It should be recognised as an escape key. As with F12, I have used the corresponding code for my harmony exit button as well as the screen option. It is received as an escape followed by two returns. It might be a case of flirc keeping the old values, although I've tried deleting it a few times. Or it might be a case of fiddling with the key repeat time etc. I was too tired to persist with it but will try again later Hope all of that is useful to someone.

There is something else fishy going on! I was just relearning some of the keys missing, number 1 to 4 and added two keys with modifiers "Ctrl+Shift+X". Here is a before/after Lirc_Util keys command. Look at the second output how "7" is suddenly missing! Maybe this related to the sometimes strange behavior of the dongle, seems like a bug whatsoever. Sequence Modifier are disabled in GUI. Is this needed to be able to learn keys with modifiers? As I understand it right, it is okay to not see every index number in the output as these are probably unprintable commands. Right? C:\Program Files (x86)\Flirc>flirc_util.exe keys Recorded Keys: Index hash key ----- --------- --- 0 5E639B9B 5 1 2A32099B 6 2 BA0E9B9B 7 3 CC95779B 8 4 EE402D9B 9 5 3825899B 0 6 F79C9B9B up 7 3339099B down 8 87792D9B left 9 90F9099B right 10 9A00099B return 11 8C0C899B backspace 12 1BE91B9B c 13 65CE779B s 15 FA3E659B F8 16 2993899B f 17 5901B9B r 18 609C9B9B y 19 C7A8F79B suspend 20 9E2A9B9B l 21 A3171B9B e 22 29DC9B9B h 23 8BC72D9B i 24 C7639B9B tab 26 652FF79B x 27 D0C0099B space 28 956CAD9B p 29 32F3AD9B pageup 30 F7573F9B pagedown 33 C8021B9B w 38 20D59B9B F7 39 59D03F9B 1 40 F5AB099B 2 41 BEA1F79B 3 42 4E7E899B 4 43 C9F3AD9B F9 44 8A1AF79B F10 C:\Program Files (x86)\Flirc>flirc_util.exe keys Recorded Keys: Index hash key ----- --------- --- 0 5E639B9B 5 1 2A32099B 6 2 CC959B9B 8 3 EE402D9B 9 4 3825899B 0 5 F79C9B9B up 6 3339099B down 7 87792D9B left 8 90F9099B right 9 9A00099B return 10 8C0C899B backspace 11 1BE91B9B c 12 65CE779B s 14 FA3E659B F8 15 2993899B f 16 5901B9B r 17 609C9B9B y 18 C7A8F79B suspend 19 9E2A9B9B l 20 A3171B9B e 21 29DC9B9B h 22 8BC72D9B i 23 C7639B9B tab 25 652FF79B x 26 D0C0099B space 27 956CAD9B p 28 32F3AD9B pageup 29 F7573F9B pagedown 32 C8021B9B w 37 20D59B9B F7 38 59D03F9B 1 39 F5AB099B 2 40 BEA1F79B 3 41 4E7E899B 4 42 C9F3AD9B F9 43 8A1AF79B F10 C:\Program Files (x86)\Flirc>123456

For me: "Or the only remedy is to press another key, but that key gets stuck." Not just a bit sticky like when I hit keys too many times to fast. Really stuck till the break of dawn. ;-) Right now, on another USB port, my nice Flirc behaves brilliantly, no stuck keys, nothing. I am back on FW3.1 by the way. And yes, I see it works great without replugging. I even have the GUI open, using flirc_util and test the commands in XBMC all at the same time right now, just minimizing the GUI. The time with the stuck keys I am very positive that I weren't able to press ANY learned keys by just closing the GUI. I had to replug Flirc first. I am using Flirc on Windows 7 64 bit right now to program it and will now hop over to the Ubuntu HTPC to test Flirc there. Thanks for the effort and your support! On another note: flirc_util only give output in a command window when you type "flirc_util.exe" INCLUDING the file extension. Made my head scratch pretty hard. ;-)

To get the right decimal HID value from your keyboard to use in record_api command, you can use this in a shell command as well: su -c "while true; do od --read-bytes=144 --width=144 -d /dev/input/event3 | awk 'NF > 1 { print \$12 }'; done" On another note, I think it is a huuuuge hassle to do all this just to get my Flirc use the "-" key instead of the "ß". :-/

A few moths ago, I purchased Flirc and programmed it on my windows machine using the Panasonic TV profile as posted at Plugged the Flicr dongle into my XBMCBUNTU machine and everything worked great. Best gadget I have ever purchased. I have since had to reinstall XBMC on that machine and instead of using XBMCBUNTU like I originally did, I installed Ubuntu and added the xbmc packages. I was expecting to just plug the Flicr dongle in and it would work just like before since the programming is contained on the dongle, but it now does nothing. The remote is sending the command(based on the feedback indicator on the remote), but I get no response on the XBMC machine. I did the obvious things: 1. Add 'deb http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/i386 binary/' to /etc/apt/sources.list 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get install flirc Enabled the 'remote sends keyboard commands' option within the XBMC configuration. Was there some other step that I had forgotten or overlooked that was part of the XBMCBuntu install that would be missing by installing the full OS? I have ran out of ideas of what to check, where to look, etc Any suggestions?

That was it !!!! Connect the dongle to my windows machine and started the GUI - a few moments later it indicated the firmware update and I was up and running again. No additional programming needed. Thanks Jason #output from flirc_util command flirc_util version v1.2.6 [v1.2.6] Firmware: v2.6 ....

# output from flirc_util command flirc_util version v1.2.6 [v1.2.6] Booloader: v2.0 Commands: delete Delete next remote button flirc sees from saved database delete_index Delete button at index displayed in `flirc_util settings` dfu Kick in or out of Device Firmware Upgrade mode dump Dumps contents of eeprom to console format Remove all saved buttons from flirc help Show this help. Also try `help <command>` interkey_delay Test run command keys Shows the recorded remote keys and their pairings loadconfig Load configuration file from disk to flirc noise_canceler Noise canceler to prevent phantom presses normal Put flirc in normal user mode peek Peek EEPROM address profiles enable or disable built in profiles reboot Displays all the devices current settings record Record infrared buttons and link them to HID keys record_api Advanced button recording saveconfig Save configuration file to disk settings Displays all the devices current settings sleep_detect Turns on sleep/suspend detection space Displays information about the space used and remaining status Last Flirc Status upgrade Uploads new firmware image to flirc hardware version Print the application version and device version if connected wait Waits for the device to be plugged in (used for scripting)

I recently bought an Xbox One, and one of the neat things it can do is control your whole home theatre by voice command. It uses the Kinect as an IR blaster, and it can turn on and control your AV receiver, TV (or projector in my case), and TV set top box. You can even turn the whole shebang on and off by saying "Xbox On" or "Xbox Turn Off". It lets you change channels with your voice, and even gives you a really nice schedule program grid for watching TV, which is something my OTA STB (on the far left of the photo) doesn't do. Unfortunately, there's one thing it can't do, which is change the inputs on anything, or control an HDMI switch. As you can see in the previous photo, I've got a Monoprice 4x2 matrix switch handling all my devices. It lets me take any of my inputs and send them to either the projector, or my PC monitor on the other side of the room. Normally I use a Harmony remote to control everything (to help me remember which inputs are which). The Xbox One was actually a fifth input, but that didn't matter, because the Xbox One has an HDMI input that you run your STB through. Anyhow, I really wanted to be able to turn everything on and off with the Xbox voice commands, and I noticed that the HDMI switch has a serial port on it: It turns out that you can completely control the switch via the serial port, doing anything that the remote can do. Even better, Monoprice publishes (on their website, despite the big "CONFIDENTIAL" label) documentation on the commands you need to send to control the thing: Serial ports are kind of hard to find on modern PCs, but I had an ARM dev board lying around. It's a PandaBoard, which has the hardware of a high-end smartphone from two or three years ago. My original plan was to stick it inside an empty NES case and use it for emulation, but that didn't pan out (not fast enough, and vsync didn't work), so it's been sitting on a shelf for ages. I thought, this thing has serial ports, and some googling turned up FLIRC, and this thing has USB ports, and even though it's got an ARM chip, you can load Ubuntu Linux onto it instead of Android... It would be crazy expensive to buy this just for this project (the board is a few hundred dollars), but since I already had the thing lying around... I figured why not put it to some use for a change. If I was doing this from scratch, I'd grab a Raspberry Pi to do it at a fraction the cost. Anyhow, here's it all wired up (albeit pulled out from the back of the shelf): I programmed the FLIRC to send a keystroke whenever it saw the power command for my OTA STB, because the Xbox One would be the only thing that would ever send that command, and it would only send that command when it was turning everything on or off. Then I configured Ubuntu to run a script whenever it saw the keystroke the FLIRC would send, and I wrote some bash scripts: And what's the result? It all works! The final setup is actually the *first* photo in this post, you can just barely see the PandaBoard and FLIRC hiding at the back of the shelf behind the AV receiver, out of view. I can now say "Xbox On", and the FLIRC will see the Xbox's commands, and cause my HDMI switch to get turned on and switched to the right inputs. It also turns the HDMi switch off when I tell the xbox to shut down, although the scripting on that is a little spotty (it only works about half the time), so I'll need to tweak the script to get that as solid as the power up. Here's a youtube video of everything getting turned on. I've cut out the lengthy wait for the projector to warm up. Keep in mind that the XBox has absolutely no way to directly control the HDMI switch!

Temporarily changing the inter delay setting didn't work for me. Plus, I've had to disable the Noise Canceler feature as it caused the response to be fairly sluggish. So my two issues continue to be: (1) the Alt-F4 mapping, which almost always send that command twice, and (2) crazy key repeats are still occuring on average 1-2 times per week.

Hello, I've searched to try and find a way of mapping a button so that when and if xbmc freezes I can push this button and it runs killall -9 xbmc.bin. However what I have found doesn't seem to work. I am running xbmc as a desktop so it boots straight into it. I created a script which is just the command mentioned above and made it executable. When I'm on the desktop and run it, it works. but when I reboot and go to xbmc it will not work. Can someone who has done this can give a quick tutorial on how to make this work it be much appreciated. Thanks.

I'm using Openelec on a Raspberry Pi B+ and recently bought a Logitech Harmony to control it. I'm trusting the embedded profile, and it seems to work very well. After a while though the volume down key or command (and ONLY this one, so far) stops working. Unplugging and replugging the FLIRC doesn't help, only a complete reboot of the RPi will let it work again. It's not a tremendous hassle but it's somehow distressing. Anyone got any clue on this? Is it a firmware bug?

I just noticed something that could be relevant. I was using my remote with Flirc, just browsing my Plex library, and decided to turn of my air conditioner. When I did so using the IR remote, I heard the USB disconnect sound come from my media center, which I found odd. I went back to the couch and my Flirc was no longer responding. I plugged it out and back in, all was working again. So i turned my AC off on and back off and same thing, Flirc is disconnected. IT seems as though Flirc is receiving a shutdown command from my AC remote. How can i disable this?!?!

hi mate thanks for the reply. using v3.0. and using the following remote http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GENUINE-WINDOWS-MEDIA-CENTRE-REMOTE-CONTROL-W-BATTERIES-RC118-H24-DG1-/300821546294?pt=UK_Sound_Vision_Other&hash=item460a5c8536 i was under the impression that this can be used with ANY remote. that was main attraction to this device. with regards to f9.f10 etc, those are the buttons that adjust the volume on xbmc. im also unable to use any command with the centre windows button. can you help please.

This solution is incorrect. Please look at my next post for a proper one. You can use flirc_util command line utility. It has a record_api command which allows you to assign a remote buttons to any arbitrary key and modifiers. From the help in the utility itself (version 1.2.6) the usage is as follows: flirc_util record_api 136 4 where 136 is the combined value for modifier keys, and 4 is the key code on the keyboard (all values are decimal). The modifier value is composed of following values: LEFT CONTROL 1 LEFT SHIFT 2 LEFT ALT 4 LEFT CMD|WIN 8 RIGHT CONTROL 16 RIGHT SHIFT 32 RIGHT ALT 64 RIGHT CMD|WIN 128 So if you want to use for example left control + left shift then the modifier value for the command will be 3 (logical OR, but you can just use sum of both values). The key codes are a little different for each keyboard layout. That's why you have problems mapping the buttons using GUI as it is based on US layout key codes. You need to find a list of key codes for French layout or you could use some application that shows you the key code when the key is pressed. BTW the key codes are assigned to a physical key, not to a letter or symbol. So for US keyboard layout = and + have the same key code but they differ in modifier keys used (in case of + sign you need to add shift modifier key).

Hi all, Whilst FLIRC is great and will work with a lot of remotes, some use strange IR settings. Currently users of harmony remotes (many models) have issue with microsoft mce setting for harmony remote when used with flirc due to issues: Currently i'm recommending the plex plex player setting however I was wondering if we should settle on something else or even ask for a setting on harmony as Jason seems to know the different types of input flirc can handle - that way any IR command would be certified to work with FLIRC Anyone else have any views on this?

Hi I have the FW 2.6 I have on two different Mac Minis using a Flirc receiver a problem with one of the recievers I have mapped the Apple + G command for a guide and assigned a command to a Logitech Harmony remote (have two identical setups in my living room and bedroom. My problem is that the Guide keeps popping up even when the key is not pressed. It only occours with one of the FLIRC receivers. So when moved from one computer to another the problem moved with the receiver. I have no clue how to solve this. But closing the Flic App does not solve it, I have to disconnect the Flir reciver. I am running fully updated OSX and using remote buddy together with the flirc keyboard commands. The Harmony remotes has learned a bunch of IR codes from an old remote which I used to map key commands into Flirc for fully control of EyeTV, PLEX and XBMC. The EyeTV infrared reciver is not in range as they are the netstreams located in the basement. I really hope you can help. My expectation is that there is something wrong with one of the Flirc receiver. Thank you

Hi Jason, This is from my original post: Programming the menu key requires use of the windows command line program. There seems to be some confusion in the forums about reference to the command line app. It is not part of Flirc or the Flirc GUI, but part of windows. Now my level of knowledge pales in comparison to many of the members here, but this is what I was able to decipher. I found this page to help me learn about the command line commands: http://www.pcstats.c...eid=1723&page=2 As I mentioned, the command line program cmd.exe Is part of Windows. You can get to it and number of ways depending on your version of Windows. Use it to navigate to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Flirc for 64 bit OS or C:\Program Files\Flirc for 32 bit OS then type: flirc_util.exe record_api 0 101 It will then ask you to point the remote and press the button you want mapped just like the GUI. Once you do that it will tell you that you were successful.

Thank you for looking into this. The command line trick did no seem to work for me though. I erased the button I use for 'Enter' then did the following : C:\Program Files (x86)\Flirc>flirc_util.exe record return Press any button on the remote to link it with 'return' Succesfully recorded button However the behavior is the same as before. Looking forward to the new GUI. An amazon tv gui setup will be awesome.

I have an amazon fire tv/flirc/harmony setup. Using the panasonic tv profile I have remapped all of the buttons to exactly how I like them. Though I have run into one small snag. I used one of the buttons to program the media center sleep/suspend command and put the amazon fire tv to sleep. With that button now programmed for sleep I setup the harmony remote to press that button when I press off to turn off all devices. It all works great and I love it. Recently I have had the issue with repeated key presses on the remote. If I enable the noise canceler in the advanced setup it goes away and that problem is solved. But now with the noise canceler on, the harmony no longer puts the amazon to sleep. If I go back and turn off the noise canceler, the fire tv goes to sleep when I press off on the harmony but I am stuck with the repeated key presses issue. Is there any way to allow these to work hand in hand? Thanks