ryanspeck Posted January 21, 2023 Report Share Posted January 21, 2023 Everything has been working well with the remote so far (aside from the completely inscrutible app and lack of documentation) and all of my devices worked properly... Except for Flirc USB with Kodi settings. No button works whatsoever. The Flirc USB doesn't seem to recognize the remote at all. Even looking at the buttons supposedly offered, there is no Enter option. No Page Up or Page Down. Confusing repititions like BLUE / Blue, Down / Down Arrow, Toggle Full Screen / fullscreen. And what feels like 500 RSVD entries. It feels like a mess. I'm not sure what the remote is even outputting. It feels like something is badly wrong with the Kodi settings in the Skip App. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted January 21, 2023 Report Share Posted January 21, 2023 It’s borked. I have an update you can try in a sec with new flirc kodi keys. But you’ll need to map them in the flirc pairing app until I update its firmware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted January 21, 2023 Report Share Posted January 21, 2023 Also, outside of the kodi keys being a mess. Let me know what did and didn’t work in the app. What was confusing. Etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanspeck Posted January 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2023 (edited) Thanks. I'll play around with it tomorrow and try to make a list of issues I've had. Edited January 21, 2023 by ryanspeck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted January 21, 2023 Report Share Posted January 21, 2023 2 hours ago, ryanspeck said: Thanks. I'll play around with it tomorrow and try to make a list of issues I've had. Here you go. No built in support yet in flirc usb, meaning, use the flirc usb app to pair buttons. I'll get in support, but I have to do a bit of work. I think different platforms have different keymappings for kodi/plex and I'll have one for each with these built into flirc. But those broken profiles should be fixed. Remove and add them back. In the future, I'll auto detect the change and prompt you for the updated codes. Please let me know. windows and mac build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanspeck Posted January 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2023 Man, thanks for all that work and the quick turnaround. I'll sync that up in the morning and test it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanspeck Posted January 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2023 (edited) 14 hours ago, jason said: Here you go. No built in support yet in flirc usb, meaning, use the flirc usb app to pair buttons. I'll get in support, but I have to do a bit of work. I think different platforms have different keymappings for kodi/plex and I'll have one for each with these built into flirc. But those broken profiles should be fixed. Remove and add them back. In the future, I'll auto detect the change and prompt you for the updated codes. Please let me know. windows and mac build. Okay, so using this, no matter what I set the buttons for in the app, all the button presses just end up being Cursor Up in actual use, including all the other cursor buttons, enter, number buttons. They all just do the same thing. It still works fine with my old remote, though. Obviously it won't let me set most of the buttons in Flirc USB, as it says it's already using them. Edited January 21, 2023 by ryanspeck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted January 22, 2023 Report Share Posted January 22, 2023 I made a mistake, Kodi is pre-pared on flirc out of the box. It just works. First, plug in flirc, fire up the app, File->Format to clear everything. Go to File->Advanced, and make sure the kodi profile is enabled: Go into the skipapp and make sure you actually replace the flirc-kodi device with the new one. Here is a video showing how I left the yellow (original), added a new one, orange, and then deleted the yellow. CleanShot 2023-01-21 at 23.24.52.mp4 Again, in the future, I will clean up when there are updated codes. It will prompt you, "Flirc Kodi codes have been updated, do you want to update your remote codes accordingly, here is what changed, etc". Let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanspeck Posted January 22, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2023 In v3.26.4, none of those built in profiles are under Advanced Settings, but the single "Builtin Profiles" box is checked after I cleared it. The Skip App instructions are the same thing I did yesterday. In this case, I just deleted the entire activity and started over again (boy, I wish that Swap Activity Letter button worked). Unlike earlier, not a single button on the Skip does anything now within Kodi. Meanwhile, my Harmony remote programmed to work with the basic Flirc USB Kodi settings still works perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted January 22, 2023 Report Share Posted January 22, 2023 Do you have a gen1 flirc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanspeck Posted January 22, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2023 Yep. I've had that thing forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted January 22, 2023 Report Share Posted January 22, 2023 Hmm. I tested with a gen2 but that shouldn’t make any difference. Let me pull my hair out and think about this. The codes are the same with what harmony sends out. But obviously something is off. Hang on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanspeck Posted January 22, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2023 That's cool. It's no hurry. I'm interested to try it out, but I bought it more to support you guys because I love the Flirc and the Pi cases and use both almost daily. At least every other device I've thrown it at seems to work perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted January 22, 2023 Report Share Posted January 22, 2023 Oh thank you so much for the kind note and support. I can not tell you how stressed I am with all these issues after a year of testing. A lot of folks don’t understand that just a couple people did all this. The few erratic and hateful emails have received are soul crushing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboomr Posted January 22, 2023 Report Share Posted January 22, 2023 23 minutes ago, jason said: Oh thank you so much for the kind note and support. I can not tell you how stressed I am with all these issues after a year of testing. A lot of folks don’t understand that just a couple people did all this. The few erratic and hateful emails have received are soul crushing. It really sucks to hear that anyone is sending hateful emails :( I also hugely appreciate all the effort you have and are continuing to put into this Jason, I cannot imagine how frustrating it must be right now to be dealing with a software issue that never came up in testing. That said, while I am grateful for how much work you're putting into this, I also hope you're getting enough sleep and rest and not burning yourself out too much just working 24/7! Take care of yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 I figured it out, updated the files on the links below. Same procedure, remove and add it back. Let me know how that goes: windows and mac build. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanspeck Posted January 28, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 Thanks, man. I'll try it out later and let you know how it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanspeck Posted January 30, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2023 Okay. Tested it out. Everything seems to work great now. So thank you and congratulations on getting that all smoothed out. Hopefully between that, your progress on the Windows bugs, and everything else you've managed, you're closing in on a much more relaxed period of work. When things eventually slow down and you get these Kodi changes into the regular release of the app, I hope you'll fulfil my one request and add support for Page Up and Page Down, as that's probably my most-used keys after the directionals and enter. If not, I'll live, but it'd definitely make usage a little easier. Thanks for all your hard work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted January 31, 2023 Report Share Posted January 31, 2023 Awesome, thanks for the feedback. Page up and page down aren't in there? I'll have to get that in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmark Posted February 7, 2023 Report Share Posted February 7, 2023 Everything in Kodi works with the remote except for the back button. Any chance of a 1-button launch for Kodi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanspeck Posted February 7, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2023 You should check the settings. The back button doesn't automatically default to Back, so you'll have to change that button. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmark Posted February 7, 2023 Report Share Posted February 7, 2023 Sounds good, now "I really don't know how," How do I do that and thank you for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanspeck Posted February 7, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2023 In the Skip App, click on whichever activity group you use to control Kodi, choose that device, look at the button layout, click on the back button and look at the action. For me, I forget what it defaulted to. I think it was Step Backward or Step Forward on that button. So you'll want to drag Return to that button's action list and then click on the trash can icon next to the other action to delete whatever that was from the button. Then sync it with the remote and it'll update it to use the Back button to go back. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted February 7, 2023 Report Share Posted February 7, 2023 6 minutes ago, ryanspeck said: In the Skip App, click on whichever activity group you use to control Kodi, choose that device, look at the button layout, click on the back button and look at the action. For me, I forget what it defaulted to. I think it was Step Backward or Step Forward on that button. So you'll want to drag Return to that button's action list and then click on the trash can icon next to the other action to delete whatever that was from the button. Then sync it with the remote and it'll update it to use the Back button to go back. I'll fix that, thanks for pointing that out 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmark Posted February 7, 2023 Report Share Posted February 7, 2023 7 hours ago, jason said: I'll fix that, thanks for pointing that out Perfect ty. Is there a way to control the mouse too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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