![]() There is no instructions or manualsįLIRC dongle itself is solid build. So since was not sealed I have no way of knowing if this really was new product or refurbished/second hand. It was not sealed and dongle fell out of it when I picked it up. ĭevice arrived in plastic packaging and this sure is "frustration free" packaging taken to the extreme. ![]() Love the idea that you could use any remote control with FLIRC. So when the battery leaked and destroyed my remote I was in market for new remote. I had my eye on this product for a long time but could not justify buying it when I had perfectly fine Logitech IR remote working. Regardless, all I said above still stands and I'd definitely purchase this again. I often have to point the remote at a significantly downward angle in order for the commands to be 'seen' and sometimes even have to lower my arm so the remote is further to the ground. It may be the remote I'm using but the FLIRC dongle doesn't appear to have the widest receiving angle for the IR signal. If my Xbox DVD remote fails, I could just as easily program my Blu-Ray player remote to control XBMC the only caveat to this is (of course) you wouldn't be able to necessarily use a remote for a device which is on and required, at the time you're using it to control the HTPC (for example, I couldn't program my amp remote because the amp provides the video/audio passthrough for my HTPC, so the FLIRC dongle would pickup buttons and translate to XBMC but as the amp is physically next to the HTPC, the amp would also be picking up the IR signals).Īll in all, this has been money well spent and if you use any iteration of XBMC, you simply HAVE to get one of these as it'll make your life so much easier. The beauty of this, apart from being able to use it on almost anything, is that you can program pretty much ANY remote. The GUI is functional but leaves a little to be desired from a user friendlyness perspective (and it's very low on help, although not that much coaching is needed and there's lots of help on the FLIRC forums), which is why I haven't given it five stars. Pressing the button on the remote gets converted to a key press by the FLIRC dongle and hey presto.your remote just works. Once plugged into your HTPC, this clever little thing advertises itself as a keyboard (or 'Human Interface Device') which is how it gets to work with so many systems. You plug the dongle into your PC (there's a Windows and OSX installer) and run the GUI software then, you pick what key press you want the specific button on the remote control to issue to the PC, then the IR receiver stores it for that specific remote control. Taking this out of the box the other day, my new XBMC install was working with my old Xbox DVD remote within 15 minutes!īasically, this is a USB IR receiver which you plug into any HTPC this isn't only for use with XBMC, you can plug it into any PC you want to use a remote control with (the GUI used to program the IR receiver includes an XBMC 'template' to make it easier but it'll work with just about anything). Despite posting in the XBMC forums, asking friends who are more knowledgable than I am and trying all the suggestions which were given, I had to admit defeat and give up. I now run XBMC on a mini-PC (an Acer Revo & Zotac Zbox ID41) and the one thing which I dread when coming to either upgrade XBMC or install it on another box is getting the remote control to work.įor the last few years, I've been using the old Xbox DVD remote, coupled with the old Xbox IR receiver (converted to USB using an adapter I sourced from eBay) and I've recently spent hours trying to get this working with the latest incarnation of XBMC ("Frodo"). I've been using XBMC since the days when it was an app for a modified Xbox and I've come to rely on it for watching video and even playing music. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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