NBstrat Posted November 9, 2014 Report Share Posted November 9, 2014 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted November 9, 2014 Report Share Posted November 9, 2014 you're right. You just need to plug in your previously paired flirc into your 'insert machine here' and it will just work. You don't need any software for anything to work. Can you paste the output of: flirc_util Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBstrat Posted November 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2014 # 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted November 9, 2014 Report Share Posted November 9, 2014 It's stuck in the bootloader, just fire up the GUI, you'll see the latest firmware get upgraded, and it should start working again. Let me know. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBstrat Posted November 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2014 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 .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 No problem, my pleasure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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