Unfortunately, the keyboard keys used do not match with other Android applications, which prevents a single Logitech Harmony activity from controlling Android TV adequately. The profile uses Kodi’s keyboard controls. In Flirc’s firmware is a built in Kodi profile that can be used with a Logitech Harmony remote immediately. Flirc receives infrared commands and converts them to keypresses by emulating human interface devices, such as keyboards and game controllers. As the latest revision of the Shield TV (‘16GB, 2017’) lacks an infrared receiver, a Flirc USB was included. The lucky recipient of the gift uses a Logitech Harmony universal infrared remote control. The Shield TV is an Android TV device, which in this case would mostly be used for playing media through Kodi and Netflix. Last Christmas I gifted an Nvidia Shield TV. In a recent Youtube video, Paul Hibbert showed off a novel use of the FLIRC USB receiver.This is a short post about controlling Android TV using a Logitech Harmony infrared remote control and a Flirc USB. #FLIRC HARMONY ONE ANDROID#įor most of us, FLIRC is great for controlling a media center or a Pi, or maybe expanding control on an Android box with a more powerful remote.īut for Paul, that simply wasn’t enough. His channel focuses on automation and voice control, and he wanted to turn his PC into a full fledged Echo Show, and just like on a Fire TV, he wanted to be able to launch apps with his voice. The first part of this process was simple enough: Alexa is actually an installable app for your Windows 10 PC, and it can respond to the Alexa wake-word just like any Echo device. This works great for tasks like playing Amazon music, using Alexa smart skills, or maybe controlling lights around the house.īut why stop there? This is a fully fledged PC. Why not control the rest of it with your voice too? Oh, sure, a person could shut down Alexa and go back to controlling things the old fashioned way with a mouse, but what if this PC is in the living room? Old fashioned controls are so awkward from the couch! Enter FLIRC. Or more correctly, enter FLIRC, the Broadlink RM Blackbean, and EventGhost. ![]() With Alexa, you can tell the Blackbean to send IR blasts of any kind. And with FLIRC, you can translate those blasts into any standard keyboard command or keyboard combination, like control+shift+5. To see how it works, check out Paul’s video: Then, with the app EventGhost, whenever the FLIRC USB dongle sends that special key command, you can launch any app of your choice, like Steam, or Minecraft, or anything else! You can even navigate those apps, if they’re something like Plex. We were so impressed with this idea that we sat down with Paul to talk about how he came up with it all. ![]() What came first, the idea or the FLIRC? More broadly, how long have you had your FLIRCs and when did you get the idea to use them this way?Ī year or so ago I started looking into ways of controlling my NVIDIA Shield with Alexa, but was sorely disappointed at the lack of functionality, so I figured I would start looking for a way to control the shield with infrared so that I could marry it up with a Broadlink RM pro. Initially I just wanted to be able to control the shield for navigation and Alexa didn’t have a way to do this natively. I thought it would be a lost cause, but I was amazed when I found FLIRC! I then realised I could create keyboard shortcuts on the Shield to do all sorts of things using button remapper, and if I paired this process with the Aberto Sonorus skill I could open individual apps too and have total control! I made a video about that here: I knew the RM pro could send infrared using Alexa so I did a quick google search to see if there was any way to convert the Nvidia shield to Infrared. ![]() I actually cut my teeth on two pieces of Windows software when I first started my home automation journey. One was Vox Commando, which is an incredibly powerful piece of voice software, and Eventghost. I linked the two together before Alexa even existed so that I would be able to control Kodi (which back in those days was called XBMC).
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