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RE: New Harmony Smart Control Remote - touser - 2015-06-23 (2015-06-22, 23:15)Matt Devo Wrote:(2015-06-22, 22:41)piteur Wrote: One of the very last update brings support for a few extra keys in BT mode : F1 to F12. Still not a full key table support (why god, why ??) but better than nothing if you miss some keys. I've never experienced IR being as fast as bluetooth/IP control. Can you please elaborate on which IR receiver you are using, which harmony device profile you used, and any settings you changed? RE: New Harmony Smart Control Remote - knives of ice - 2015-06-23 (2015-06-23, 01:37)touser Wrote:(2015-06-22, 23:15)Matt Devo Wrote:(2015-06-22, 22:41)piteur Wrote: One of the very last update brings support for a few extra keys in BT mode : F1 to F12. Still not a full key table support (why god, why ??) but better than nothing if you miss some keys. i agree. using BT with the harmony on the chromebox is a million times better than the Flirc that i'm currently using. which is what i came to post about originally. i'm running OpenElec on my chromebox and had been using the bluetooth for months. after resetting Openelec i needed to repair again. no matter what i try this fucking Harmony will no longer pair to the chromebox via Bluetooth. it seemed like an update to the hub must have broken things from reading the harmony forums, but logitich claims that is not the case. i get a bluetooth error everytime i try to connect. no idea why i've paired this remote countless times in the past with no problem. RE: New Harmony Smart Control Remote - Matt Devo - 2015-06-23 (2015-06-23, 01:37)touser Wrote: I've never experienced IR being as fast as bluetooth/IP control. Can you please elaborate on which IR receiver you are using, which harmony device profile you used, and any settings you changed? HP MCE IR receiver (one of the ones listed on the ChromeBox wiki) Microsoft Media Center Extender no delay-related settings changed Hub blasts IR to receiver (2015-06-23, 02:04)knives of ice Wrote: i agree. using BT with the harmony on the chromebox is a million times better than the Flirc that i'm currently using. The first thing the hub did when I plugged it into the PC was update the firmware, so I assume it's on the latest as well. What kind of device the hub appears as to the PC (ChromeBox) is dependent on what device profile is used: Programming it as a Windows PC results in the hub appearing as a Logitech/Harmony Keyboard; programming it as a Sony PS3 results in it appearing as a BD remote control. Pairing with the ChromeBox was a pain, took several tries, and the smartphone app kept telling me it wasn't paired even though OE showed it was paired/connected. So I said F it and went back to the MCE profile/IR, which worked perfectly. I'm not sure if the key latency is quite as low as the PS3 remote (I didn't test them back to back), but its worlds better than both the Harmony 650 and Harmony One. RE: New Harmony Smart Control Remote - knives of ice - 2015-06-23 (2015-06-23, 02:11)Matt Devo Wrote:(2015-06-23, 01:37)touser Wrote: I've never experienced IR being as fast as bluetooth/IP control. Can you please elaborate on which IR receiver you are using, which harmony device profile you used, and any settings you changed? matt, is there anything that could have happened to my chromebox for me to have problems pairing with bluetooth? all i did was set my openelec to factory settings. i just tried to pair my phone as well and couldn't get it paired. i'm really stumped and i've done this so many times in the past with no problem RE: New Harmony Smart Control Remote - Matt Devo - 2015-06-23 (2015-06-23, 02:23)knives of ice Wrote: matt, is there anything that could have happened to my chromebox for me to have problems pairing with bluetooth? all i did was set my openelec to factory settings. i just tried to pair my phone as well and couldn't get it paired. i'm really stumped and i've done this so many times in the past with no problem I wouldn't think so, not if you did a hard reset. Occasionally I've had devices not connect on the first try, and have to delete them before reconnecting (trust & connect) otherwise it doesn't work RE: New Harmony Smart Control Remote - Namoi - 2015-06-23 @oHUTCHYo Ok, i found some time for a little tuto. But again i think you shouldn't go that way. Editing Lircmap.xml and/or remote.xml are the way to do this properly. Here are some info about this : http://kodi.wiki/view/LIRC http://kodi.wiki/view/Keymap http://kodi.wiki/view/Action_IDs But if you want to do it the hard way here we go. Basically we will disable eventlircd which catch ultimately the button press and revert to ir-keytable instead. We will need to create or customize the keytable which translate each button press to a key name. We will create a startup script for killing eventlircd and load that table. You will need to know each scancodes of each button (short and long press) of your remote (chances are that the standard scancodes will be the same). it's completely dependant of the device you choosed in the harmony app even if most of the mce emulated devices share IMO the same scancodes. What it means is if you change the device in the hamony app, it won't work anymore if the scancodes of the new device are different. So let's do this. 1. Copy rc6_mce from /usr/lib/udev/rc_keymaps to /usr/config/rc_keymaps (if rc_keymaps doesn't exist create it before). 2. Open rc6_mce in notepad++ (not notepad !). This file handle the keytables for mce devices. Keep only the scancodes under # table rc6_mce, type: RC6 NEC. Remove all the other entries beginning at #xbox360 remote. 3. ssh Code: killall eventlircd then Code: ir-keytable -t Now you can test the remote buttons (Ctrl+X to exit) 4. Press the button of you remotes and compare the scancodes generated with the ones in rc6_mce. For example press 0 and check if the scancode generated is 0x800f0400 (which is the one in rc6_mce). If it's not, replace it by the one of your remote. Do this for all short press and all long press. Now you have a table matching your remote. 5. Now the "fun" part is to modify in this table the key names associated to the scancodes. For a change to apply, you have to save the file and ssh Code: ir-keytable -c -w /etc/rc_keymaps/rc6_mce -p RC6,LIRC It will clear the actual table and load the new one. Let's say you want the scancode binded to KEY_NUMERIC_2 to generate a "C" instead of a "two", just replace KEY_NUMERIC_2 by KEY_C. Doing so you are replacing ultimately which Kodi actions the button will generate. But as i said not all keyboard key press are mapable. You have to check if they work. For instance KEY_END doesn't work. To check if a KEY_xxx generates an action under Kodi enable debug logging and open the Log (in /storage/.kodi/temp). It's written in plain text. Here is a list of the keys you can try Code: KEY_0 6. Once you're done, just create an autostart.sh script in /storage/.config with these lines ( killall eventlircd; ir-keytable -c -w /etc/rc_keymaps/rc6_mce -p RC6,LIRC; ) & That's it. RE: New Harmony Smart Control Remote - piteur - 2015-06-23 I always encountered that problem with IR control on a windows pc but I guess it depends on the receiver model and some other stuff. Anyway, good to know IR works fine with some boxes ! RE: New Harmony Smart Control Remote - mattchapman - 2015-09-06 Just bought the Logitech smart control. Price is now about $99 which is good value. Overall I'm very happy. The RF is the real draw here...no more aiming the remote and crossing your fingers. With a proper set up it's flawless. VERY slight lag compared to the original MCE remote but nowhere near as bad all the other Harmony remotes once the delays are tweaked. Highly recommended. RE: New Harmony Smart Control Remote - IIIdefconIII - 2015-09-17 Just got this remote working with bluetooth, much faster response timing then RF. If anyone need a guide i already made on RE: New Harmony Smart Control Remote - brohawk - 2015-09-17 Defcon, can you please post? I currently have it set up on a Chromebox running OE, but find I have to hit a button multiple times the first time I use it, to wake up the BT connection I suppose, then it works flawlessly. RE: New Harmony Smart Control Remote - nanohits - 2015-09-18 (2015-09-17, 18:09)IIIdefconIII Wrote: Just got this remote working with bluetooth, much faster response timing then RF. If anyone need a guide i already made on Yeah please send me the guide too. However I have the Harmony Ultimate remote. RE: New Harmony Smart Control Remote - mitchell.ross - 2015-09-18 +1 for the walkthrough please! RE: New Harmony Smart Control Remote - nanohits - 2015-09-20 Looks like Defcon has gone MiA. Still waiting for the guide!! RE: New Harmony Smart Control Remote - bobones - 2015-09-21 Defcon's guide is here: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=239190 RE: New Harmony Smart Control Remote - dukester - 2015-12-27 pulling my hair out with this remote, i have a RPi2 with a logitech bluetooth dongle in it. remote works to control Kodi, some commands arent what i would like but thats all fixable with a custom keymap... what im having issues with is the number pad does not work and it appears the remote isnt even sending button presses as there is nothing shown when i try to map them... does anyone have one of these remotes working with bluetooth, and has working number pad? what device did you use to get it going and can you shed any light as to what is going on with this thing before i pack it up and return it. |