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I just got my flirc and it came with firmware 2.0. My remote is the Harmony Ultimate and while I could record my remote buttons I was having trouble as it seemed the direction arrow up and direction arrow right were sending the same command. I upgraded my flirc firmware to 2.4 and cleared the configuration to start again and now I cannot record any remote commands at all. Can I revert to an earlier firmware?

Hi I have a media player that runs android and I want to use the FLIRC to control it. it works fine when the player is on, but when it goes to sleep, I can't wake it up with the FLIRC. If I connect a keyboard and then let it go to sleep, I can keep the Enter key pressed for a short while (2-3 seconds) and then the player wakes up again. Is there a way I can emulate that with a IR command? And what would I need to do in the FLIRC settings? I hope someone here has a good idea what I can try :)

I didn't know the FTV keys did that... will have to take a look. The menu key will be put into the GUI, but it's not currently there. On Windows you can navigate to the Flirc directory (C:\Program Files\Flirc I believe) from a command prompt and type in 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. I also just realized we're having this conversation on both the XBMC and Flirc forums...

I used the "Media Keys" controller in the Flirc GUI to map the media keys. The FF, RW, and play/pause keys on the Fire TV remote send those signals (I connected my Fire TV remote to my computer temporarily to see what it would do). For the option/context menu key, you can use the menu key next to the right Windows button or Ctrl-Esc. I found the menu key to be more reliable. Esc works as the Fire TV remote's back button. The flirc_util command for mapping the menu key is: flirc_util record_api 0 101

Bump. Where's the f***ing "command line app"? Edit: NVM, packed it up and sent it back to Amazon. $30 dongle with crappy documentation.

Ok I just got Flirc to work with a old WMC remote I had for my old 360 and it worked. It worked fairly good. Had to press the key 2 times to get it to respond. When using the MyHarmony do I remove all the commands in that? Like what the buttons are suppose to do? Ok not sure what I did but I was able to get it to work on my main PC. I'm gonna take the Flirc and put it on my HTPC and see if that works. Ok it all works out fine now. Still not sure why it wouldn't pick it up before but it's working now. I do have 1 question, is there a command for a right click for XBMC with Flirc with the remote? Right click allows getting into the settings at the addon so I was wondering if it was possible.

I have 2 Windows 7 Media Center computers in the same room. One is normally the media server, and the other is normally my PC, but sometimes I need to switch if I've recorded something that is cable card encrypted, copy protected as play once, and gets recorded on my PC, but not on my media server. The system includes 2 SiliconDust HDHomeRun Primes, a Pioneer Elite Receiver/ Home Theater, a regular, generic, non-programmable, HP WMC remote and a Lenovo WMC USB IR receiver, and it all works ok. I also have a Harmony 700. I now also have added an HP MediaSmart TV Remote (remote only, no HP TV - P/N 5189-3683) that can be programmed for various CBL, DVD, AVR and AUX devices, as well as the non-configurable HP MediaSmart TV Profile. It apparently uses the XBMC command set for the TV Profile from what I've read, which apparently is different than the WMC command set, as the remote does not control my WMC server using that TV Profile. It can achieve somewhat limited WMC functionality by loading the right code into one of the other CBL, DVD, AVR, or AUX profiles, but the limited usage is pre-determined by the hardware in so much as what buttons and functions actually do anything in those modes. The remote: HP MediaSmart TV RC2285202/01 P/N 5189-3683: http://www.giftspub.com/HP%20MediaSmart%20TV%20remote%20setting%20manual.pdf The MediaSmart TV that the remote was made for: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&product=3369894&dlc=en&docname=c01445164#N1099 So, my plan is to use FLIRC to work with TV Profile on that MediaSmart remote, to operate my WMC 7 media server. I'll use the standard WMC remote system with my other PC. Are my assumptions correct and should that work? If so, this should then allow my Harmony 700 remote to be able to control either WMC and everything else in the system, and I'll also have the dedicated remotes, one for each WMC, and the remotes should not interfere with each other.

Where is the command line documentation for Windows?

Hi Jason, this evening I tried your suggestion with a WAKE command registered and I enabled the "sleep detection" and... I can confirm that this command works also from the full shutdown!!! I tried it without big hope because on the previous posts on this forum I was able oonly to get confirmation about wakeup from sleep S3 state and never about S5 state (Shutdown). Now I can confirm to everyone: with the new motherboards like the Asrock I have, FLIRC is able to completely Power ON and of course power OFF the PC!! This is perfect and lovely! Last improvement to become an amazing product would be to be able to program the same key for both Power ON and Power OFF, the current proposal requires a very complex procedure to emulate this feature. The post can be closed, now. Very good job! Thanks

Hi Jason, Tel me how to create syntax in order to delete one of keys. I'm trying like that: C:\Program Files (x86)\Flirc>flirc_util.exe delete_index'16' [E] run_cmds(248): could not find command 'delete_index'16' It doesn't work. Here is my flirc_util settings: flirc_util version v1.2.3 [v1.2.3] Firmware: v2.4 Settings: sleep detection: Disabled noise canceler: Enabled inter-key delay: 3 state: 0 builtin profiles: Disable Memory Info: keys recorded: 32 keys remaining: 137 memory used: 23% Recorded Keys: Index hash key ----- --------- --- 0 65F8450 1 1 25D2475F 2 2 46EB8450 3 3 A562485F 4 4 C662485F 5 5 655E485F 6 6 8687D952 7 7 2513AF61 8 8 4613AF61 9 9 E55E8450 0 10 460CD99A up 11 65BF9B4B down 12 86B71F14 left 13 25B31F14 right 14 86BF9B4B return 15 46AB894B backspace 16 65B71F14 i 17 6708498 - 18 E5261F14 = 19 257BC215 t 20 6576B811 p 21 869FAF61 space 22 6FF9C61 x 23 C633C63C r 24 A5FA9C61 f 25 C6E38398 , 26 A5E38398 . 27 6484D90 / 28 A5120D14 pageup 29 C64B9C4B pagedown 30 E5474D90 w 31 C6948ADF c I want to remove line 16 ("info" button from my harmony). This button doesn't work. Nothing happens when I press it. When I assign "Info" button with flirc software there two info buttons (I dont know why). There is some conflict between default flirc xbmc from my harmony and builtin profile from Flirc.

How does one go about setting up multiple profiles on the FLIRC and setting up a harmony button to switch between the two? Having a "watch MCE" button that fired off commands related to MCE and the same for XBMC would be ideal, but how would I tell the FLIRC to switch modes via an IR command?

Hi there! I have an RTI dealer-programmed universal remote, which I'd love to use with Plex via FLIRC. The RTI communicates via RF to a controller box, which sends pre-entered IR codes via IR emitters placed on each component. When a command is entered on the remote, all of the IR emitters push the same signal to every component. To minimize interference (and my understanding is that this would apply to many dealer-configured universal remote setups), it would be great to specify non-assigned IR hex codes to map to keys. In other words, when I select 'shift+W', present me with a prompt to manually input an IR hex code, as opposed to simply activating FLIRC to listen for an IR signal (which relies on having a specific remote already). If this could be done, it would be a TREMENDOUS help for anyone planning on utilizing customized universal remotes. In any case - thank you for creating such a straight-forward solution to such a silly problem.

This issue seems to be back around. I'm running a clean install of Mythbuntu 12.04.3 LTS. When I run Flirc (sudo or as myth-user), here's the results that I get: me@my-myth:~/Flirc-v1.2.2-x64$ ./Flirc ./Flirc: error while loading shared libraries: libQtSvg.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The results from lsusb: me@my-myth:~/Flirc-v1.2.2-x64$ lsusb Bus 002 Device 019: ID 20a0:0001 Clay Logic ... The results from flirc_util: me@my-myth:~/Flirc-v1.2.2-x64$ ./flirc_util version Warning: cannot open USB deviceWarning: cannot open USB devicedevice disconnected, can't run command Reading up on my issue, I tripped across a thread elsewhere where the person mentioned that the Flirc dongle & interface still worked on Win vX, so I tried it there & it worked. I was able to load some commands and save the profile. Plugging the Flirc back into the MythBuntu box produced no response; nothing at all. So what do I do about this to get Flirc (hardware and software) working on this MythTV box?

I have used flirc across many computers, and I have never had any problems, untill upgrading my Ubuntu install from 12.10 to 13.04, and more recently to 13.10. All of the buttons are still functioning with their positions, and I am able to use Flirc from the command line. Has anyone experienced this, or knows how to fix it?

Thank you for this great product. It would be great if the Flirc Harmony profile had both PowerOn and PowerOff commands and if the PowerOn command was mapped to the wake function on the Flirc.

I executed the command as administrator but got an error: "Could not connect sessionID 0 to sessionname console, Error code 5 Error [5]:Access is denied.

That's a really interesting find. Try the same command with sudo

i'm having issue as well mostly using the directional arrows. making navigation through XBMC annoying. I upgraded to the latest release GUI and firmware. GUI 1.2.2 and Firmware V2.3. And I just tried running the command from the CLI to enable noise canceling and got this message: Warning: cannot open USB deviceenabling noise canceler any idea what that might mean?

I had downloaded the right files for the right platform. But thanks to the last line of your last post ("$ sudo ./Flirc"), I realized that my user was not part of the "sudoers". So although the Flirc GUI program would start and say that the Flirc module was connected, there was no menu available. I remedied the problem with the following (in case someone else encounters the problem). Open the sudoers list by opening a root terminal window and using the visudo program to edit the list like so: # visudo Find the line that has "root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL" and copy it right below itself changing the word root to your username so it looks like below: # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL username ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL Now save your changes and restart the Flirc GUI program in a user terminal window with the command below. My desktop is KDE so I use "kdesudo". You might need to use "sudo" or "gksudo" for Gnome desktop, it depends on your system. $ kdesudo -u username ./Flic Once the program is started, click File -> Advanced -> then click the button "Force FW Upgrade". After a minute or so, "Firmware v2.3" will be displayed on the bottom left hand corner of the window. MrNice, I wish you a good life, you certainly made mine better today.

Hmm. Which one would that be? Thank you for your help! I get the following 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)

Hmm.. there is a CLI command for increasing sensitivity (unless it's been taken out recently). Have you tired re-programming flirc to see if it makes any difference?

Thanks for the answer Chris! I have tried noise cancelling and it doesn't seem to change anything. No other devices either, but checking that was a good suggestion. I have a new theory though: At night we often roll up in blankets at this time of the year and I guess they will lessen the reflection of our surroundings. The funny thing is that sometimes the AVR blinks as it recognises a remote press (it does so even when it doesn't react, I use the directional keys for flirc which don't do anything for the AVR while not in a menu) and the Mac doesn't react, even when I'm right in front of the flirc. It seems to me that this happens when I don't press the button all the way down or at a slight angle. I tried to learn this "slight press" but it doesn't seem to give a different signal, flirc GUI says "button already learned" It's not too bad really. I just thought that I maybe missed some command for the CLI to increase sensitivity and was a bit surprised that the AVR picks the signal up more easily. Really love the Flirc and just wished I had found it before I spent weeks unsuccessfully trying to find a universal remote I liked.

Well I fixed my own issue. I ran Flirc from the command line as root and it connected. I haven't tried it in my HTPC but at least it appears to work on my desktop

ok so this is kinda specific android treatment for android devices where flirc is connected to!? Flirc receives the command a remote sends to it (e.g. "a") and flirc passes it through to the android device (like an ouya). The app acts as a "man in the middle" and "translates" the "a" key to "vol up"!?

It's not easy to find a remote, which gives you full functionality for both devices without 1. to be a universal remote or 2. overlaps functionality and interfere the second device You can look for a dvd/ bd sony remote, which offers also tv functionality or vice versa. In both ways you will probalby not have full functionality for the second device on the remote (tv or dvd/bd) in most cases I know, that some older sony vcr remotes have some kind of mechanical switch to change the profile between vcr and tv, but they often are missing the navigation buttons (arrows) So the best solution for you seems to be an universal remote. There are cheap fancy ones, like one4all, which will grant you the best remote experience. As long as you have both devices in sight, using the same remote, you will always control these both devices with buttons/command related to both devices. There is no way to avoid this. In my case, i use a silver ATV remote to control my xbmc. Small, sleek design and functional. For enhanced commands like info, context menu, zoom etc. i'm using unused buttons from my tv remote, as long, as the long press feature is not implemented yet.