I've had some related trouble getting an IR remote working with Fire TV + Kodi...
TL;DR
1) Has anybody had luck getting the numbers to work on the Ortek VRC-1100 in Kodi on FireTV?
2) Is there better context menu / right click behavior for the Ortek VRC-1100?
3) Tried to use USB->IR MCE receiver from HP along with MCE remotes (Harmony, Xbox Media). Didn't work at all in FireTV or Kodi. Perhaps not sending keyboard commands?
4) Is Flirc the next best option, or can Ortek or MCE solution be made to work?
Details below...
1) The first thing I tried was the Ortek remote (
http://kodi.wiki/view/Remote_Control_Reviews#VRC-1100). It seems to work fine on the FireTV, but I have 2 problems inside Kodi.
1a) First, the number keys don't seem to register anything. The light on the receiver lights up, but Kodi doesn't do anything with the signal. It doesn't even show up in the debug log as a message. Here's a section of my debug log when pressing Up, Down, Left, Right, 000, 111, 222.....888, 999, Down Down Down:
Code:
02:53:14 T:1520569768 DEBUG: bool CApplication::OnKey(const CKey&): up (0xf080) pressed, action is Up
02:53:14 T:1520569768 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x14, sym: 0x0112, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
02:53:14 T:1520569768 DEBUG: bool CApplication::OnKey(const CKey&): down (0xf081) pressed, action is Down
02:53:15 T:1520569768 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x15, sym: 0x0114, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
02:53:15 T:1520569768 DEBUG: bool CApplication::OnKey(const CKey&): left (0xf082) pressed, action is Left
02:53:15 T:1520569768 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x16, sym: 0x0113, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
02:53:15 T:1520569768 DEBUG: bool CApplication::OnKey(const CKey&): right (0xf083) pressed, action is Right
02:53:36 T:1520569768 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x39, sym: 0x0134, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x100
02:53:36 T:1520569768 DEBUG: bool CApplication::OnKey(const CKey&): alt-leftalt (0x4f0d4) pressed, action is
02:53:36 T:1520569768 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x39, sym: 0x0134, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x100
02:53:36 T:1520569768 DEBUG: bool CApplication::OnKey(const CKey&): alt-leftalt (0x4f0d4) pressed, action is
02:53:37 T:1520569768 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x39, sym: 0x0134, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x100
02:53:37 T:1520569768 DEBUG: bool CApplication::OnKey(const CKey&): alt-leftalt (0x4f0d4) pressed, action is
02:53:41 T:1520569768 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x14, sym: 0x0112, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
02:53:41 T:1520569768 DEBUG: bool CApplication::OnKey(const CKey&): down (0xf081) pressed, action is Down
02:53:42 T:1520569768 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x14, sym: 0x0112, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
02:53:42 T:1520569768 DEBUG: bool CApplication::OnKey(const CKey&): down (0xf081) pressed, action is Down
02:53:42 T:1520569768 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x14, sym: 0x0112, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
02:53:42 T:1520569768 DEBUG: bool CApplication::OnKey(const CKey&): down (0xf081) pressed, action is Down
02:53:42 T:1520569768 DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x14, sym: 0x0112, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
You can see that the direction commands are registered, but none of the numbers. The 21 second gap in time between 02:53:15 and 02:53:36 is where I was pressing numbers. I believe the alt-leftalt commands that showed up at 02:53:36 was probably Close, Clear, or Enter buttons at the bottom of the number keypad.
Has anybody had luck getting the numbers to work on the Ortek VRC-1100 in Kodi on FireTV?
1b) I'd like the get the OSD menu / context menu command to work as it does with the Fire TV remote's Menu button. The Ortek right mouse click button tries to do this, but it brings up the mouse pointer and right clicks wherever it happens to be, not on the currently selected item. I haven't looked deeply into this issue yet, I imagine I might be able to override this behavior in a keymap.
2) The 2nd thing I tried was an HP MCE USB IR receiver with various MCE remotes (Harmony One, Xbox Media remote) and that didn't seem to work at all, in either the FireTV menus, or inside Kodi. Perhaps this isn't sending keyboard commands? This (
http://kodi.wiki/view/Amazon_Fire_TV#USB...ed_Remotes) suggests that at least 2nd generation MCE remotes work, but maybe that's wrong??
Unless there's some better suggestion, perhaps the next thing to try is Flirc (
http://kodi.wiki/view/Amazon_Fire_TV#Flirc)? Ultimately I want to get a solution that works with a Harmony One (with number support), but just trying to get a standalone IR remote to fully work first so that I can then teach the Harmony.
