Remotes; what are people using?

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Hey guys,

As above?

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Harmony 700.

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I made a plugin to use a wiimote using the built in bluetooth of the Rpi3 and you can get those dirty cheap

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Personally I’ve always preferred using Mini keyboards, connected to the RPi through an RF USB dongle.
This gives a wireless connection without dependency on either IR (line of sight) or BlueTooth (protocol variations).

Best regards: dlanor

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Harmony Touch that works with most of my devices, together with a flirc dongle.

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MeLE F10 Deluxe

I really need to dig into the files to customize/enable the other buttons on it though to really unlock its full usefulness. I just haven’t had the time.

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@dlanor said:
Personally I’ve always preferred using Mini keyboards, connected to the RPi through an RF USB dongle.
This gives a wireless connection without dependency on either IR (line of sight) or BlueTooth (protocol variations).

Best regards: dlanor

Yeah I have a few of those,

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@sremick said:
MeLE F10 Deluxe

I really need to dig into the files to customize/enable the other buttons on it though to really unlock its full usefulness. I just haven’t had the time.

I have one of these to :slight_smile:

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What I really want is something like this

But thanks all for the feedback, I think ill stick to the nexus/ Alexa/ iphone for now :slight_smile:

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For what its worth, I’m not a fan of the Harmony, I think they are over priced for what they are.

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@1liminal1 said:

I have one of these to :slight_smile:

Have you done any custom keymapping to enable the other keys on the main (not keyboard) side?

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@1liminal1 said:
For what its worth, I’m not a fan of the Harmony, I think they are over priced for what they are.

That’s why I get them used on Ebay.

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@sremick said:

@1liminal1 said:

I have one of these to :slight_smile:

Have you done any custom keymapping to enable the other keys on the main (not keyboard) side?

Yeah I did, it works very well. I was using it as my bedroom TV remote/ HTPC control.

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@Valdhor said:

@1liminal1 said:
For what its worth, I’m not a fan of the Harmony, I think they are over priced for what they are.

That’s why I get them used on Ebay.

Ill have a look :slight_smile:

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@1liminal1 said:

Yeah I did, it works very well. I was using it as my bedroom TV remote/ HTPC control.

Would you mind chiming in on this thread and sharing what you learned/did?

http://forums.plex.tv/discussion/201421/custom-keymaps

Thanks

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i7 Rii mini and its very awkward it almost works, what i really need is the home button to go straight to the main home screen no matter where i am. Have any of you had this problem?

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i7 Rii mini and its very awkward it almost works, what i really need is the home button to go straight to the main home screen no matter where i am. Have any of you had this problem?

I have this in my remote.xml file

Play FastForward Rewind Stop Left Right Up Down Select Back #ActiveWindow(Home) ActiveWindow(Home)

Sorry for hijacking this thread is this ok?

Regards

Steve

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I use this little wifi airmouse keyboard remote with IR learning.

I also have this little probox2 remote I’m going to use a with a dual boot emulation system.

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@Steve_SansumWright said:
i7 Rii mini and its very awkward it almost works, what i really need is the home button to go straight to the main home screen no matter where i am. Have any of you had this problem?

I have this in my remote.xml file

<keymap>
   <global>
     <remote>
       <yellow>Play</yellow>
       <blue>FastForward</blue>
       <red>Rewind</red>
       <green>Stop</green>
       <left>Left</left>
       <right>Right</right>
       <up>Up</up>
       <down>Down</down>
       <select>Select</select>
    </remote>
    <mouse>
     <rightclick>Back</rightclick>
    </mouse>
    <keyboard>
     #<home>ActiveWindow(Home)</home>
     <key id="172">ActiveWindow(Home)</key>

Sorry for hijacking this thread is this ok?

Regards

Steve

@Steve_SansumWright where’s the rest of your XML code? You don’t close the rest off.

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My apologies I was pasting from the terminal. I have attached the xml file.
Im using Ubuntu Server 16.04
ZFS Raid 5
Plex Server Version 1.3.4.3285
Rasplex 1.7.1.137

I originally use OpenElec and Plex as a DLNA server which strangely the remote worked as it should. But I really do not want to go back to having no media info. Apart from this Rasplex runs wonderfully on my mildly overclocked Pi3