[mythtvnz] WAF

[Nick Rout]

beware posts that old, proceed with caution.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Robert Fisher <robert at fisher.net.nz>
wrote:

> I found these:-
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> http://openelec.tv/forum/103-infared-remotes/68314-remote-with-intel-haswell-nuc?start=30
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> http://openelec.tv/forum/12-guides-tips-and-tricks/3218-in-progress-harmony-one-complete-guide
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> This will have to wait until after my holiday now.
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> 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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