Recently got the Skip 1s - I am a bit dissappointed that I am bound to some app to program the buttons. 

I want to record the buttons using flircutil myself and deal with whatever button I pushed - or is there a default profile for the remote available that just emits A-Z, 0-9  keys and includes A,B,C ?

From there I could evtest to capture the input, send it to mqtt and use node-red receive/control whatever is passed along with my own logic, which in turn would mean I can have 40 activities based on my own logic.

But it appears that no button will actually emit anything unless I have pre-programmed the remote with the app ? Or am I missing something ? 

The apps are a bit confusing to be honest. You see a handful of devices, nothing appears to be compatible with the devices I have.  

4 hours ago, remoteuser said:

Recently got the Skip 1s - I am a bit dissappointed that I am bound to some app to program the buttons. 

I want to record the buttons using flircutil myself and deal with whatever button I pushed - or is there a default profile for the remote available that just emits A-Z, 0-9  keys and includes A,B,C ?

From there I could evtest to capture the input, send it to mqtt and use node-red receive/control whatever is passed along with my own logic, which in turn would mean I can have 40 activities based on my own logic.

But it appears that no button will actually emit anything unless I have pre-programmed the remote with the app ? Or am I missing something ? 

The apps are a bit confusing to be honest. You see a handful of devices, nothing appears to be compatible with the devices I have.  

Yes, you definitely need to pair buttons yourself to HID keys and you can do what you proposed. There would be no way of doing this on my end, there are 100,000 different codes and manufacturers.

However, I have an SDK: https://github.com/flirc/sdk

Within here I have a folder called IR. This app is really simple. It's a C app you can use to open the device, and periodically poll it for a scancode. Then you can do whatever you once you receive that scancode. Please post here and share how it goes. Would love to see and help assist.