mjmillerusa Posted May 16, 2014 Report Share Posted May 16, 2014 Hi there. I bought a Flirc so I could use my Harmony remote with the Fire TV. Is there a config file I could use somewhere? Any recommendations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 Basically, flirc shows up to the fire tv as a keyboard. So just use the keyboard controller view of my application, pair them with your remote, and you can use it on your amazon. I don't have any list of shortcuts for the firetv, but it's definitely on my list of stuff to do. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyski Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 Hi, I just started a thread about my experience with Flirc and fireTV. It might be helpful Tony 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted May 18, 2014 Report Share Posted May 18, 2014 you're awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevisthomas Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 I'm also new to FLIRC and i'm trying to use it for this same purpose. I read the wonderful post describing how map the keys in the help section. I manged to get things coded up but when i went to test it i found that it's pretty much unusable. Most key presses behave very strangely. Either there are delays in how fast the fire responds, or the key is repeated. I didnt have a lot of remotes lying around so i ended yup swiping codes for a Windows Media Center. From the info over in help thread it sounds like he experienced a similar issue and use an Apple TV remote for his directional keys. What i think that i'm going to try to do is just choose a remote that i dont have and program that into the harmony and then use the harmony remote to emulate some other remote to program Flirc. Has anyone tried that? And does anyone have a suggestion of a remote to emulate that actually works with the Flirc/FireTV that doesn't duplicate key presses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoiks68 Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 I'm in a similar situation as you. I have a Logitech Harmony 900 RF remote that I use with an IR repeater. This makes programming the Flirc more difficult as I have to use a computer located close enough to the IR repeater where it can reach the Flirc. I have an Activity working for the Amazon FireTV on my Logitech Harmony 900 remote, and works fine when you then use the FireTV's remote. However, I cannot get the buttons mapped correctly on the Harmony 900 remote to work with the FireTV, so I'm also wondering which remote control I should emulate and how I'd go about doing that in Logitech's Harmony software application. I need to find some way of making the Harmony 900 send RF commands for all of the necessary buttons, which then get converted to IR and sent to the Flirc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ada Posted May 31, 2014 Report Share Posted May 31, 2014 You should update your harmony software. I was able to locate a build in profile for Flirc. Use xbmc as the model when prompted. This isn't home free, you would still need to remap with Flirc to match with controls that will work both on fire tv and xbmc. I used the wiki site for key mapping. The harmony software also has context menu command build in so you don't have to do any of the command line stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoiks68 Posted May 31, 2014 Report Share Posted May 31, 2014 Ada, thank you very much for you help. I now have it working pretty well. I believe I needed to update the firmware on the Flirc. Once I updated from firmware version 2.0 to firmware version 2.6, I was able to get it working. The only thing left to deal with is that the button clicks are a bit off when using my Logitech Harmony 900 remote with the FireTV and/or XBMC on the FireTV. Some button presses don't register, and some repeat several times. Does anyone have experience configuring the Harmony software and/or the Inter-Key Delay setting I see in the Flirc software to get a Harmony remote to work well with a Flirc and a FireTV? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted May 31, 2014 Report Share Posted May 31, 2014 The best interkey delay is 3-4, I should really change it and remove the rest. Try 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoiks68 Posted May 31, 2014 Report Share Posted May 31, 2014 Thank you. It's now working perfectly after changing the Inter-Key Delay setting from 6 to 3 in the Flirc GUI software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted May 31, 2014 Report Share Posted May 31, 2014 Thank you. It's now working perfectly after changing the Inter-Key Delay setting from 6 to 3 in the Flirc GUI software. = ) Awesome, happy to help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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