If it doesn't work then I will get a Flirc. Having the remote integrated with the Harmony also increases the WAF :-) So given the item I linked to on Ali is only US$5 I am going to buy one to try it out.
Openelec flirc android#
I am also aware of the Android App but I don't like smartphone remotes because you have to look down at them to use them and there is no tactile feedback. So a IR remote would be just fine and if the codes could be learnt from a Harmony Remote which I use, that would be even better. I looked at how I navigate Kodi and Plex now on the Pi and I pretty much use the arrow direction keys and Enter. Tapping into pins on the GPIO port doesn't seem that attractive to me and while Flirc looks good it's expensive.
Openelec flirc tv#
I don't want to connect the Pi directly to the TV as then I would lose 5.1 audio. Ideally I would use CEC but as I noted in my original post, the CEC adapter fails on startup and I think that's because of the PI -> HDM switch -> AVR -> TV connection. Thanks to all the suggestions most of which I had reviewed already. What do GZ'er think? Then the remote can be learnt but a universal one to make it even easier again. I am currently using a Logitech wireless keyboard but that is 2.4GHz I think since there is no IR and it connects via USB. Looks like it should work as it just emulates a wireless keyboard. Looking around for an IR solution led me to look at these type of units. Ideally I would just use my TV remote (the Pi is connected to the TV via a HDMI bug, Receiver and then TV) but that chain seems to break the CEC connection so I end up having to use a wireless keyboard which is not ideal. I don't usually stream content on the Internet but either play off a local share directly using Kodi or more recently, streaming from a local Plex server using the KodiPlexConnect addon for Kodi. I have here also the Flirc connected, but you cannot really use it yet as it hasn’t been programmed.I am using my Pi 3 running OpenElec mainly as a media player with Kodi. Next you just need to insert the microSD card to RPi2, connect the ethernet cable, the USB keyboard, the USB mouse and the monitor with an HDMI cable and finally the power supply. So with the card in place I will just fire up Win32DiskImager and write the image file to the card. The microSD card came with an adapter that allows it to be used in a standard SD-card reader (like the one I have in my laptop). Let’s unzip it and write it to the microSD card with the Win32DiskImager app. The download contains one compressed file: OpenELEC-RPi2.arm-5.0.3.img.gz. For RPi2 we should select one of the ARMv7 builds, at this moment the latest stable release seems to be 5.0.3. The next step is to download the disk image from the OpenElec web site.
Openelec flirc software#
I selected the OpenElec media center software because it seems to be well supported and has a pretty good documentation.įor more information please take a look at the OpenElec site:
Openelec flirc install#
Next I will need to install the media center software to the SD card. Ethernet cable (and a free port on a LAN switch/router).įirst I assembled the Coupé PiBow case and inserted the RPi2 into the case.5V/600 mA power supply with micro-USB connector (e.g.I received all the parts within a week from the order. Model B RPI sending video over the composite output, planning on running openelec with 1channel subscriptions running on PseudoTV. Hi, working on setting up a RPI for my parents to cut the cord and Ive come to the point of figuring out the remote end of things. I plan to use the FLIRC IR remote receiver and remote controller to control the media center when it is connected to my TV. Is FLIRC worth it on a Raspberry Pi + openelec+ Logitech Harmony. Here’s a summary of the parts that I purchased from MODMYPI. However, it is still backwards compatible with the older Raspberry Pi devices which is just great.Īs my first RPi2 project I decided to build a simple media center. In addition the amount of RAM was increased from 500 kBytes to 1 GByte. The CPU now has 4 cores and is running at 900 MHz (before: 1 core MHz). The new Raspberry Pi 2 was just released.