Skip 1S + Multiple USB Receivers?

[EposVox]

Hi! I’ve recently set up my first Skip 1S and Flirc receiver with a RPi running LibreELEC. It’s working great, but I’m concerned by the “it just works” pairing. 
My experience has been great thus far, so I’d like to order another remote/dongle combo and two additional receivers to control 2 RPis and 1 windows laptop in another building. 
But the question rises: How can I make the remote work with multiple receivers? It seems like it just syncs automatically to the dongle it ships with - is there any way to pair it with other dongles on the other activities?

The A/B/C activity switching buttons seem perfect for this 3 machine scenario I want to use it with, but I’m at a loss with how pairing works here. 
 

EDIT: I’ve been reminded the remote works via IR, but I didn’t know if different codes/command setups could be assigned to different receivers regardless. 
 

thanks!

Edited October 22, 2025 by EposVox

[jdn]

hi eposvox 

this sounds more like an issue with the flirc side of things, is my understanding correct in that you have one remote set up with one flirc receiver and are happy on how this works ??

if so there isnt any pairing as such as its an ir system, with the flirc though it can be set up to control different devices and map different ir commands to the usb command it sends to the host device.

 

one way i could see this working is set the skip up with 3 devices as media players you dont have map the needed buttons - then map these in the flirc software to respond to the ir receiver this way you would end up with three different media players set up and three flirc recivers setup to repond to different ir codes but these would map back to only controlling the one pi / laptop at a time 

hope that helps  

[jason]

You can achieve what you want, just don't use the same Skip / Harmony profile for all the flirc usb devices. 

Basically, the same IR signal is going to be sent to all devices. They will all respond. Add a device that isn't in your living room. Pick a random device in the skip database. Add that to your remote. Assign the buttons you want to use. Then fire up the flirc usb pairing app, and pair them manually. That should fix it. Let us know.