Hi all, I wanted to buy a newer version of Raspberri pi, the thing is i want to control that device i installed Rasplex on it. I see a lot of keyboards, fly mouses and all that sort of hardware that hopefully can control my Pi and Rasplex offcourse.
Anyone with experience on that part, all is welcome.
Search the forums for ‘remote’, you’ll find plenty of recommendations and How To’s.
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And that’s the answer i wasn’t looking for, to be specific, if i search on the word ‘remote’, and i did that, i get too much to handle. There are so much different kind of ‘remote’s’ out there, from apps till devices who give problems. I am looking for an answer that could be the next remote, either a mouse, a pointer, a waving thing, or a remote keyboard, i don’t mind, i just want to know which ones are the best to control my rasplex Raspberry Pi without having to anger myself if subtitles are of focus. I don’t have an ipad or something, so all i use is my laptop and or pc to start the movie/serie and watch it full. When something goes wrong, i can not easily adjust it. That’s where a remote comes in handy. So, do you know of a brand key-mouse remote?
Ps. I’m currently reading in on http://www.rasplex.com/docs/faq.html for devices. Don’t know if that helps…
I am thinking that the Raspberry Pi needs a remote receiver if i want to use according to that link’s options, but using a keyboard remotely is also an option. I’m still investigating…
A two second search brought up this topic https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/979854#Comment_979854
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and even on the support pages of plex.tv they mention you can use your android device as remote for Plex Home Theatre. And that works also on iOS and even on Sailfish over Android support. Tested again today.
The first thing is to try with your TV remote. If your TV has HDMI-CEC, then you’re all set.
Thanks for all the feedback, but my android phone cannot shift the subtitles earlier or later. The main purpose of a remote is working, so, i looked and found the remote board for Pi. Now raise some money for it. :-S
I’ve been researching this myself. Seems like the Mele F10 Deluxe is going to be my next purchase. It’s usable right out of the box in rasplex and it has an IR learning buttons so it can learn your tv remotes power button signal as well.
The downside is that you can’t remap the mouse feature of the remote to other functions in rasplex since the devs have opted to prevent the setting change in the guisettings.xml file. I was hoping to map the left and right mouse buttons to something similar.
It seems like the only real advantage to the remotepi board over a wifi keyboard remote is the remotepi allows you to power on and off the Pi itself?
I see, there is room for exploring this addition in controlling your rasplex. I hope the dev team, no i do not mean the deaf-team, 
, is able to implement this in a wider area. But hey, i am no developer, nor a programmer, if i was, i would definately try to make this work on different sides. As far as i know the remote pi attached to your Raspberry pi does indeed turn power on and off remotely, but it gives also signal to different actions like volume, pause, play etc… That is what i read, not found out myself, because i still have not the money for a puchase… (and i don’t have a donate button either) :-w
Just to come back to this thread, I ended up purchasing a Henscoqi MX3-M 2.4G Wifi Mouse/Keyboard combo. It’s basically the AERB MX3-M with a different name and a couple bucks cheaper.
Works better than the MELE F10-Deluxe as I can use all the buttons once I deactivated the mouse. IR mapping for 5 buttons works fine and I’m down to just one remote as I just use the PI2 on this TV. $18 USD well spent.
I just bought a Raspberry pi 3 and it has next to bluetooth also standard keyboard and mouse control… I guess if i buy any Bluetooth keyboard i can control it, and i hope that soon i’ll getting an ipad mini where i can control it also…
Thanks for your support people…
On my tv i use my Tv remote (hdmi-cec)
My beamer doesn’t support cec control so i use a standard MCE remote in combination with a external ir receiver (€1,00) works perfect.
