When you’re done programming you can check the behaviour by opening a text editor on your computer and press all the keys to see if they’ve been mapped correctly and correct them if necessary. So, when you press the STOP button the X key lights up in the Flirc desktop application. So, for example, map the STOP key to the X by pressing the X on the virtual keyboard and press your stop on your Logitech’s remote while it’s pointed at the Flirc dongle. You’re now ready to start programming the keys described by the Kodi documentation Then, select full keyboard from the controllers menu and now the screen looks like this: I also recommend that you select the clear configuration option from there as well. So, startup the Flirc utility, which you already should have installed from the Flirc downloads page, and check the file menu and update the firmware if there’s a newer version available. When ready, Update the remote and enter the activity when everything’s ready so you can program the Flirc dongle. Check the “Customise buttons” option and make sure that all buttons, that you want to use, are mapped to the MCE device.
I assume that you’re aware how you can setup an activity in the Logitech remote so configure the remote with the MCE machine as the “video device”. Or maybe selecting another MCE remote setup from Logitech’s database works just fine for you? Please note: I don’t say that you have to use a MCE remote, maybe it will work just fine with another remote which you already have. I don’t know how the others will do but here’s a link to get you started: Ebay It turned out that the codes from Logitech’s database were causing most of the problems and I used a cheap MCE remote (from Ebay) to learn all the keys: Now comes an important part, it turns out that the keys are working, but just as stated above, the behaviour was erratic and I ended up with a setup which I couldn’t use. I just took a HP machine and then you have a nice mapping with all the keys you need. Should be simple without any messing around with Flirc (as I’m writing about Kodi on a raspberry Pi)…? It still takes some time to get it to work and with this post I’d like to share my experiences how I got I did this.įirst of all, I created an activity in the Harmony software and added a multimedia PC keyboard. So in theory you can use the default keyboard setup with Kodi and have Flirc do the task of translating the codes to key presses. Flirc is an USB dongle which presents itself as a keyboard. It often ends up with erratic key presses, repeating or not it’s even not working. Getting a Harmony remote to correctly work with Kodi can be difficult.
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