[mythtvnz] WAF

[Robert Fisher]

I found these:-

http://openelec.tv/forum/103-infared-remotes/68314-remote-with-intel-haswell-nuc?start=30

and

http://openelec.tv/forum/12-guides-tips-and-tricks/3218-in-progress-harmony-one-complete-guide


This will have to wait until after my holiday now.

On 21 April 2016 at 12:10, Michael West <michael at iposs.co.nz> wrote:

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> On 21 April 2016 at 11:05, Robert Fisher <robert at fisher.net.nz> wrote:
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> I installed LibreELEC and it seems to work fine with keyboard controls.
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> I am struggling to find a howto to use my Harmony remote.
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> Ok so harmony and LIRC on Linux/Myth/KODI is a bit of a confusing one.  It
> should be straight forward except for the fact that both LIRC and harmony
> are trying to do almost the same thing but from different angles and this
> causes problems and confusion.
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> Basically LIRC is configurable to respond to any remote control (with the
> right IR receiver type)  and it can also learn new remote codes manually.
> While Harmony is configurable to emulate any remote control and also has
> the ability to learn new remote codes.
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> Then when you mix the two together it is confusing because there is no
> defined remote codes to pick.  Here is a quick analogy.  LIRC is sort of
> like a bolt that can be any size it wants so you can use any spanner to
> turn it.  While Harmony is a spanner that can be any size it needs to be to
> turn any bolt.  But when you bring them together what size bolt/spanner
> does it pick???
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> So the trick to make them work together is to pick a random real device
> with a remote and get LIRC to pretend to be the device and harmony to
> emulate it’s remote.  There are a few guides and example lircd.conf files
> you can find via google to help you with this.  From the harmony end you
> need to enter a specific device and model number that matches up with the
> LIRC config you have selected.
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> Here is some more info that may help:
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> http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=220677
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Robert Fisher
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