<p dir="ltr">Back from our holiday and I can now report that it was surprisingly easy to set up the Harmony Remote for LibreELEC on my Intel NUC, especially when I realised that the IR sensor was not behind the small hole on the side of the NUC.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Any suggestions about where I should post a "how to" of about 4 simple steps?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Robert Fisher</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 21 Apr 2016 2:28 p.m., "Nick Rout" <<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">beware posts that old, proceed with caution.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Robert Fisher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert@fisher.net.nz" target="_blank">robert@fisher.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I found these:-<div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://openelec.tv/forum/103-infared-remotes/68314-remote-with-intel-haswell-nuc?start=30" target="_blank">http://openelec.tv/forum/103-infared-remotes/68314-remote-with-intel-haswell-nuc?start=30</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">and</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://openelec.tv/forum/12-guides-tips-and-tricks/3218-in-progress-harmony-one-complete-guide" target="_blank">http://openelec.tv/forum/12-guides-tips-and-tricks/3218-in-progress-harmony-one-complete-guide</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">This will have to wait until after my holiday now.</p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 21 April 2016 at 12:10, Michael West <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@iposs.co.nz" target="_blank">michael@iposs.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div lang="EN-NZ" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 21 April 2016 at 11:05, Robert Fisher <<a href="mailto:robert@fisher.net.nz" target="_blank">robert@fisher.net.nz</a>> wrote:</p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><p class="MsoNormal">I installed LibreELEC and it seems to work fine with keyboard controls.</p><div><p class="MsoNormal">I am struggling to find a howto to use my Harmony remote.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></blockquote></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">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???</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Here is some more info that may help:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><a href="http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=220677" target="_blank">http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=220677</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p></div></div></div></div>
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